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Thank you. I would be up for doing that if it was just for my own family. But as we are a school we need to cover our backs in sorts of ways! So I think we may need some sort of subscription service!

Thank you for the reply. Like you say, with 300 users and 100 odd individual mac addresses, it is just a bit much. We need something that is a bit more comprehensive. A good idea to have 2 networks SSID though!

Hi all, I am a teacher at a Primary school. We need some advice on what content filtering to use. We have something, but in all honesty it is useless. The teacher that set it up has now gone and no one knows how it works. We need a new start! We are primary school, so all the given stuff...

Yes. To play blu Ray.

Hi there, My laptop does not have a dvd drive. I was thinking I will buy an external one. Then I thought, it would also be good to be able to play blu ray. The problem is, external blu ray players are expensive! If I was to buy an internal Sata blu ray drive and then buy a Sata to USB...

Hi there, I am stumped by this. I am on Sky broadband (not fibre). When I download something/ watch videos the internet speeds drops to unusable. Running a test it drops from my usual 10 ish Mbps to less than 1 Mbps. Even when running a speed test it zooms strait to 10 Mbps then gradually...

Hi there, Hope you all can help. I am wanting to add a second router to to my network so I can set up Express VPN via PPTP. My primary router is some Generic Sky ER115 thing. My second router (the one thats support PPTP) is a Draytek Vigor 2110. - Putting them both on the same subnet and...

Hi Guys, Hope this is in the right section! I have a list of dates written like this in excel. Its just text in general formal. August 31, 2016 September 7, 2016 September 14, 2016 September 21, 2016 September 28, 2016 October 5, 2016 (and so on) How do get excel to convert it into a date...

Hi Guys, Hoping someone who is a whiz at excel can help. So I want to find out yearly mileage increases of my car. I have ten years of mileage entries, but they are at random times a year an not one year apart each time. Is there a way I can get excel to calculate a estimated annual mileage...

Hi all, First off, I apologise for my ignorance and I am certain I will say many stupid things and use the wrong terminology! I work at a Holiday park that is quite large. We have a few toilet blocks that are out the way, but we would like to get the internet down there. The distance is too...

Hi Guys, Does anyone know/recommend of a program which I could add say thirty mobiles (iOS, android and windows) to a central computer and have the ability to locate and lock (erase) if stolen? So far I think Prey is leading? We really need one which can be addressed by one computer and not...

Hi Guys, I have managed to get my Raspberry Pi to act as IP webcam. I have also set up port forwarding so I can access the webcam stream from outside the network. Is it possible to now embed that live stream into a website? Obviously, I could just link to it, but it doesn't look very good...

Thanks for advice. Luckily in this case I dont have to use the Powerline aspect as I can use the wifi one as a access point - plug it into the wall to give it power and plug it into a active ethernet port. So I am not having to make the electrical circuit live. One issue I am now having is...

Thank you to everyone for your help. Much appreciated. Long story, but the reason I am looking into this as my boss struggles to use the Wifi in his office. Even the PoE access point is just out his office, I think due to all the fire doors signal goes thorugh a bit of interference (even...

Hi Guys and Gals, Happy New year to all. I just have a quick question. At my work we have two Access Points (one upstairs one downstairs) the both operate on different channels but broadcast the same SSID and password. My question is, how does my laptop know which one to connect to? When...