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sorry for my ignorant but I don’t have an idea about who would be the people who maintain the larger network? Would it be Local Authority?

Our DHCP Scope for our curriculum network is bout to run out, and soon there wont be any IP addresses available for the new clients (as we are going to buy another 50 PCs for our new ICT suite). The DHCP scope is configure as: IP 10.8.100.0 to 10.8.100.254 Subnet mask 255.255.255.0 Since 24 bits are assigned to the network part it only gives us 254 hosts. I need some guidance in how to go about changing the scope to (16 bits for network part of the IP rather than 24), and what are the factors that i need to consider (such as changing router and switches configurations, software that uses IPs of the servers, web applications, etc, etc) before changing anything as it is a live network, and i can not afford for anything to go wrong. thanks

Yes we only use 1, 6 and 11.

thans for the lovely tips. here are the ansowers to your points that may help in further suggestions: one AP is installed in each room, and there is only a wall or 2 between these AP they are quite close to each other and more than 1 AP can be seen with good signal in each room (even when we manualy try to devide laptops between 2 AP the same problem). We dont have mandatory profiles, the script that runs while logging in is very simple it is just to map 3 network drives to the student profile. we use Sophos as our AV and it updates on logon. We do have WSUS but the time is set to pick up updates at 1 pm. We use the WPA-PSK authentication (we dont have a managed wireless network, we just have a bunch of APs hence i can not force load balancing). We use Windows to control our wireless connectivity. we have configured each AP with a diff channel the problem is still there. So do you think the only stable solution will be managed envoirnment? if so I called Netgear and thiir solutions is £1000 for the managing device and £70 for each AP. do you think it is reasonable? But i always thaught that most schools are using non managed wirelss networks how does it work for them? thanks

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We have a 4 wireless Access Points in our science department, one in each classroom the brand of the access points are Planet. We have 18 laptops that students use for each lesson to connect to the network wirelessly. The AP are configured to pick up IP from our PDC and WPA PSK security is set. But the laptops are connecting very intermittently and sometimes they search for IP for minutes and eventuly say SLOW OR NO CONNECTIVITY. We have done the following: , Laptops are updated with all Microsoft updates , The network cards of all 18 laptops are upgraded (from the manufacturers websit Intel) , Planet technical support were of no help , Firmware updates were not authorized by the Planet, they think the firmware is up to date I strongly believe that these AP are total rubbish and there is something wrong with hardware. We have now called our contractors who initially installed the APs to change it with a stable brand but they say they wont change it and blames our configuration (but how difficult is configuring an AP ?). but please Advice me of anything that you think i should do that you think i missed to do. Also we are going to install another 8 AP, please advice me on what brand should we go for, that you think is good and will support 20 clients to connect to the AP in the same time. thanks

I have installed password control for the ICT teachers to enable them to change student passwords only. but unfortunately they can access staff usernames too and can change thier passwords, I would like to only give them access to students user accounts not staff how do i acheive this. if it is not acheivable through password control is there any other tool that i can use to acheive password change for students only. I have tried the mmc option but when i login as a teacher it says "you can not use the mmc in author mode ......" and does not work. please guide me to a solution Thanks

Hi I have installed password control for the ICT teachers to enable them to change student passwords. but unfortunately they can access staff usernames too and can change thier passwords, I would like to only give them access to students u ser accounts not staff how do i acheive this. Please let me know Thanks

My server comes up with a message your password will expire in so many days would you like to change your password, after every 42 days. But I want to keep the same password. to acheive that I opened the GPO and under Password Policies I clicked on Maximum Password Age to disable it but it is grayed out and does not allow me to change anything. It must be something very simple please let me know how to disable the maximum password age through GPO. THANKS