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Anybody else want a free router?!?! I still have quite a few left Dave

Over a thousand schools now use us! PM'd Dave

Hi folks, sorry for not being in contact last week with those that have pm'd me. We'll get your routers sorted this week and I'll reply to you all. BETT took up quite a lot of my time last week! Dave

hmmm we may be a little late on buying the raisin ones as we're down to London tonight. I can include some coffee as an apology though ;-)

@Joanne yup here's a sneaky peak

I hope I'm not being too stereotypical but if you ladies love chocolate then feel free to pay us a visit at our stand at BETT and meet some of the nice ladies that work for us too Thanks Dave

We have lots and lots of chocolate to give away so please come to our stand to get some. See below

very good @AButters I have quite a few PM's in my inbox this morning so watch this space. I'll be in touch with you all and you should get your routers by the end of the week. Thanks and enjoy your routers!!!! Dave

I have hundreds of the things

speaking of Drayteks, if you want a free one you may want to go here http://www.edugeek.net/forums/our-advertisers/147792-free-draytek-2820-2830-router-worth-169-vat.html Dave

Hi all, I just wanted to check you all got your lovely Drayteks!? Dave

Hello everyone, Due to many of our customers moving to our cloud service rather than on premise filtering solution we have a large number of refurb Draytek 2820 and 2830 routers worth £169 + VAT each. We’ll even throw in free postage  See Vigor 2830 Series for a full product spec We are giving these away for free. All we ask for is the following from you please • The speed and price you pay for your current Internet provision and if the LA or an alternate provider supplies your school with this • The type of filtering you use and how much you pay per annum in support / licences • When your contract is up for renewal • The ability to give you an official quote from us come renewal time • Your contact details at the school A few small house rules • Only 1 router per school • Only 1 router per person applying • Only open to direct employees of schools and not to 3rd parties • Only open to schools that are not current customers of Talk Straight / Schools Broadband • Stock is limited so this is on a first come first served basis! I also promise that we will not constantly contact you with sales calls. That’s not how we do business. Thanks and enjoy your free Draytek Dave

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There are some minor differences between a hosted and onsite installation but our customers find its not detrimental to protecting their users and using the system. If it was then we wouldn't do it

Hello, can anybody recommend an ICT support company that supplies to schools in Rochdale please? Thanks Dave

Yes they can if they want to but the licence costs to Lightspeed will be more expensive than the ones included in our package due to our bulk buying with Lightspeed. Also our Lightspeed servers are in resilient clusters so you get the advantage of that too. Ta Dave

lol sorry sales pitch over... But I see the future where schools need guaranteed bandwidth. It's been quite interesting over the past few years as schools have gone from leased lines to ADSL, then FTTC and I see them going back to leased lines again as more and more applications go into the cloud and leased line prices get cheaper and cheaper. Bandwidth usage goes up year and year, particularly when you throw in 1:1 ipad deployment. oh and pm'd ;-) Dave

Hi @ReBoot, that's not quite correct. There's also LLU'd FTTC such as EoFTTC (and other carriers variants). It's similar to GEA except you get guaranteed bandwidth over it unlike standard FTTC and a higher SLA. Currently we offer EoFTTC as standard on some of our primary school bundles and this can guarantee speeds of 20mbit up / down so long as the line can support it. if there's spare capacity on our carriers network then it can "boost" over the 20Mbit too which 99% of the time there is. We also get layer 2 hand off so can do full end to end quality of service for specific applications. It's essentially a leased line. For Spitfire at £31month it's highly likely that they will be losing money on a primary school as I know what the average usage is for a primary schools on the 95th percentile and it's more than £31pm in bandwidth over BT WBMC / WBC and that's even before the cost of the FTTC tail. @synaesthesia also makes some very good points too. But if you're happy doing all support yourself then go for it and good luck Dave

@rob101, @Steve21 is right it does depend on the applications you use. ICloud backup, iTunes and youtube really can hammer bandwidth. The vast majority of schools we have that do 1:1 Ipad deployment to a similar size as you gave a minimum of 200Mbit on 1Gbit bearer. The largest at the moment at least is a 500Mbit The good news about having a 1Gbit bearer is that you can easily upgrade it in 100Mbit chunks relatively quickly. If you need some of our customers to speak to then let me know. We also include Lightspeed MDM free of charge year 1 so its nice and easy to integrate content filtering onsite and offsite as well as manage all of your apps including full VPP support. Thanks Dave

You should come and see us Tony. We have free coffee and chocolate for all on our stand

Use something like a Draytek Vigor if you want to make an SSL or site to site IPSEC VPN. They are under £200

If you're a secondary school I'd highly recommend a Fortinet 100D for its UTM & NGFW capabilities. They are very well priced too. Let me know if you need one. Connected UTM - Integrated Security for Small and Medium Enterprises | Fortinet Dave

Hello, if you need 4 x WAN ports then look no further than a Fortinet 1400D. This will do load balancing over numerous links and is a full Next Generation Firewall and UTM device capable of doing quite a few hundred Mbit of inline virus scanning and the rest which I'd highly recommend you have. See http://www.fortinet.com/sites/default/files/productdatasheets/FortiGate-140D.pdf and Connected UTM - Integrated Security for Small and Medium Enterprises | Fortinet I'll send you a PM and see if you want a price as we are accredited Fortinet partners. Thanks Dave

I'm finding it quite difficult. The instructions (or lack of) how to do everything is the most frustrating thing. I bought a Saitek X55 specifically for this which is AWESOME!!!!! Makes you feel like a real fighter pilot Dave

quality, well when the mrs is having a glass of wine with her girly friends tonight and I've put my little one to bed then this is so getting downloaded Dave