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Thanks for the responses guys. I had read a Google article saying that "some" Huawei dongles work, but nothing more than that. No list specifying which currently work that we could go by. I think MatthewL's response is a good point actually about the signal. With a MiFi style device the students could plug this in near a window for better signal, and we can guarantee the laptop will connect to the WiFi pushed out from this a lot more than we can guarantee that a USB dongle will work judging by the Google statement above. Thanks for your replies. Just for reference - EE are currently doing a deal to businesses on the Netgear Nighthawk MiFi device - 25GB data for £10 a month so that's very reasonable. Lee.

Hello EduGeekers, Just wondering if anyone has been asked this recently - I know a few schools have solutions, just wondering which solutions they are. We have been asked to look into providing some 3G or 4G dongles + Chromebooks to our disadvantaged pupils who don't have computer/internet access at home. Back in the Windows days we would have bought a Windows Laptop & a pay monthly 3G USB dongle to plug straight into the device. Does anybody know if that would still work with a Chromebook? do they know how to launch the software on the USB stick properly? If not, we would have to use one of the newer Mobile WiFi kind of devices for the Chromebook to connect to, but has anybody used one of these, and can you lock down what MAC addresses can connect to this router? Thanks in advance, Lee.

Hi Fiza, Did you have any trouble adopting the switch to the controller? I'm setting up a small scale test network and we have a US-48, a US-48-500, 2 AP-AC-PRO and 1 cloud key for the controller. When I plug the 48 port POE switch in, and the cloud key into that, I can get into the fallback IP for the controller (192.168.1.30) and configure it, but I change the IP to something on our management IP range (lets say 10.20.30.10). When logged in after the setup wizard, I can see the 48-500 switch pending adoption on a default IP 192.168.1.20 but as the controller IP is now on a different subnet it will not adopt. If I adopt the switch before changing the controller's IP so they both have a 192.168.1.x address then the switch adopts fine. I then try changing the switch IP address to 10.20.30.11, change the controller to 10.20.30.10 again and although they are both on the same subnet now, the controller loses connection to the switch... Did you have any trouble like this? Thanks, L

Hi All, Has anybody heard anything further on the Microsoft Licensing front? The Memorandum of Understanding between the DfE and Microsoft to provide discounted MS Licenses for education ended on the 1st July. We renewed our licensing on a 3 year deal with our reseller on the 26th June (signed the online agreement with Microsoft on this date) and yet we have no licenses online under this order.. When I asked our reseller about this they said "It appears that Microsoft are not processing any orders that were due to renew on the 1st of July at the old pricing, they will only accept orders on the new pricing. We hoped that they would have signed a new pricing agreement with the DFE by now but we have heard nothing from Microsoft" Just wondering if anybody else is in this situation at the minute or has heard anything on Microsoft Licensing. L

Hi Tracey, Did you ever get a reply to this? We've got some Chromebooks and I'm looking to set up the Google authentication on Smoothwall but wondered if you had got this resolved. Thanks, L

Thanks for the replies all, I tried a flavour of lubuntu core. This would have been okay with Chrome on as we have a smoothwall device that can not authenticate using Google sign on. However, the devices are that old they will only run 32bit and there is now no 32bit install/support for Google Chrome on Linux.. so these would be vulnerable. I think these are destined for the bin unfortunately.. Thanks, L

Hi Steve The netbooks are little Asus Eee PC 4G devices. These have Intel Celeron M CPU, 4GB SSD Soldered On and 512MB RAM by default. The school have about 60 of them. Im just installing Lubuntu Core on as a test and then bobbing Chrome on to see how well this works. Reading the Lubuntu documentation, they have had this running on Intel Pentium 2 CPU with 64MB of RAM (not sure on the HDD). If this doesn't work I don't think they're going to be much use, but I thought I would ask and see if anyone had converted them to Chromebooks somehow. Thanks, L

Hello all, This is my first post on Edugeek. I'm just wondering if anyone has any solutions to make use of some old netbooks we have laying around.. We have considered converting these to some form of Chromebook using Neverware's CloudReady which we use on some other devices, however these netbooks only have 4GB HDDs that are soldered on (fantastic I know...). We would need something smaller than 4GB after install. Has anyone re-purposed something with 4GB HDDs to make use of today? Even if these are just for quick internet access and Google Docs this would be useful for now. Thanks, L