It does surprise me that there is so much effort going into broadband, but very little co-operation between LEA's and a huge disparity between how BB is implemented in different areas. Cumbria and Lancashire joined forces to implement 10Mbit wireless broadband to most secondary schools in the area ( some have 2MB SDSL due to line of sight problems with the microwave gear). Progress has been a little slow at times and there are still a number of schools awaiting connection. We got our 10Mb in April 01 to replace our Dual 64K ISDN, it liberated our use of the Internet .

Robin
St Aidan's CountyHS
Carlisle

At 10:07 08/07/02 +0100, you wrote:

Is Surrey not providing an NGfL solution? Another LEA having problems dealing with large technical projects?

Try Easynet (a local company to you I believe) - they do a range of products, which seem reasonably priced and filtering is an option, rather than a requirement. I don't know how many IP numbers you get though.

Regards

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Miles Berry
To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com
Sent: 7/6/02 8:15 PM
Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] ADSL

We're looking to upgrade our Internet connection from ISDN to ADSL. I'd
be
very grateful for any advice on Linux friendly providers, plus pointers
to
any pitfalls to watch out for etc. We do our own filtering through Squid
(on
SuSE 8) so don't _have_ to go with one of the dedicated education ISPs.
I've
also heard that we might need a new line installed as there have been
problems reported in the ISDN to ADSL upgrade; does this sound
plausible?
Thanks in anticipation,
Miles Berry
Deputy Head
St Ives School, Haslemere.
www.st-ives.surrey.sch.uk

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