MisterTechMan

No problem. I mean, it would indeed work having them on Wifi and you could be happy with how they perform, it all depends how mission critical your radios are. If they are used across the whole school (caretakers, SLT, IT, Reception etc) then it's best to have them as a separate isolated system that isn't reliant on a network. (You wouldn't want your fire alarm/lockdown response to fail because the wifi/AP/switch happened to go down at the same time) I've not long replaced 25 analogue radios with Hytera digital radios (mixture of HP505 and HP565), we didn't need a repeater in the end as the coverage was far batter than what we had on the older radios, even with the new ones having the shorter "stubby" antennas

I would avoid relying on Wifi for this - if an AP goes rogue then you've lost your communications too. for the cellular adios, you would again be relying on signal indoor across the whole site What are make are your current radios? I'd be more inclined to look at a repeater for the existing radios, or upgrading to digital radios

Really really sad to hear this! Had a good few conversations with John via X over the years. I've not had the email from LGFL, are you ok to post the email here?

Have always had a good experience with Advania (previously CCS Media) for everything from general peripherals to hardware to licensing.

It's also worth pointing these out: Buy Excel Cat6 Plus Surface Mount Box 1 Port to 4 Port Versions White Just used 40 of them on a project, great for having a network point above a ceiling tile

1) it depends what configuration was set - if you are buying more then standard practise is to send one of your existing radios to whoever you are buying the new ones from and they can read the current config and then write that to the new radios. There's an awful lot of features and options that can be enabled in addition to setting the frequencies. 2) yes absolutely - from Ofcom. £75 for 5 years iirc 3) digitall-comms treated us well with our last radio refresh (Although we went for Hytera instead of motorola)

We had 30 ViewSonic screens (mostly 75" but a few 86") installed last summer and they've been flawless. One was DOA and was replaced in a few days without issue.

It's that time of year again when we have one learner who needs EWP for an exam. The links previously provided for the last free version longer seem to be working... does anyone have the install files they are willing to share? 🙏

We have one of these to stop the gates being pushed open from the middle when closed.

After a trial of the other brands, we have just had 30 Viewsonics installed. Really really pleased and no issues so far.

They do - not had any issues so far, with some being fully Intune and some Hybrid.

That's not far off what I've just paid for a batch of the new 12" Surface Pro with Snapdragon! Which are great btw.

Non-touch screen laptops. For the Surface Pro's, they come with the detachable keyboard and Slim Pen 2.

Laptops for all admin/support/teaching staff, with the exception that TA's each have a Surface Pro 12" with detachable keyboard. Each desk (excluding classrooms, they still have desktops) has a docking station so staff can plug in and used it just as if it were a desktop.

We have had x3 HiTi CS-200e in operation for the last 4 years - they have done us well and haven't had any issues, apart from general maintenance and replacing ribbons. They have probably done around 6,000 cards between them. I can't comment on the software as we use our MIS system to create the badges.