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On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:52:24 +0000 (GMT) Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, tom wrote: > > > My girls primary school (150 headcount) appears to be going to pay > > Â25000 for BB over the next couple of years!! > > I haven't approached the head for exact figures but this sounds > > horrendous. Any comments - I've obviously done the really expletive > > on pretty comprehensively myself. > > That'll be the SW Grid For Learning then... A govt. quango outsourced > to ... er, I think.. RM? who just hand the cash over to BT ... > > They privide a heavilly filtered feed, often via leased lines - last > time I looked, it was 2Mb (each way) to a primary schools and 8Mb to > secondary, but I suspect they've raised the speeds since then. (I'd > like to at least hope they have, anyway). It's all part of a big > private network managed by BT (or was). The expensive part is the > "last mile" to the school, especially if it's using traditional > leased line technology (be that copper or fibre) and the cisco > routers, etc. > > Looking at ADSL - you might look at a good business package - or two. > One for the admin side of things and a totally separate one for the > teaching side. If theycan get 8Mb, then a good business quality > service would probably be OK - at Â30 a month depending on data > usage. I can't see that a primary school gets up to much, but I'm a > bit out of touch these days (and the only one I have anything like > hands-on experience with is the local Steiner school and they may not > be representative of a mainstream primary school) > > However it's probably the filtering that they sell it on - keeps the > kiddies squeaky clean and all that. I understand that it can be time consuming finding websites and adding them to a filter list that Schools can use, but surely there's another way? Is there not a way for Squid to subscribe to an externally available filter list? Maybe a centrally available list that Schools can subscribe, contribute to and locally override if necessary/desired? Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html