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On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, tom wrote:
I'm still laughing
I am the Local Authority officer that you need to speak to. All Devon schools have a service that cannot be compared with a domestic ADSL connection or costs. There are a number of differences that make the service more expensive and here is a list of some of them.
Firstly the connection is synchronous. That means that the upstream bandwidth is the same as the down stream. This is never available to domestic users. So if your daughter's school has a 10Mb connectionthen it is 10Mb (not up to 10Mb) both ways.
He actually has a point here - even if it's symmetric and not synchronous. However not all Devon schools use the service - I know of at least 2 that don't, however they're independent schools that could never afford it.
It's really hard to break into something like this, RM/SWGFL provide it all onna plate, it's backed up by BT and to provide a case against using it is very hard indeed.
I'm not saying it's right, but almost impossible to break the cartel - and these days when schools (especially primary schools) are under staffed, with no real IT staff to speak of, having a managed service that works and gives you apparent peace of mind, even at a price might well be worth it...
Shame though.As I've said before, the only way round this is to provide a total "black box" solution, completely managed and monitored, not by an individual, but by a company (or at least someone looking like a company). Dealing with (primary) schools won't be easy unless you can get on the board of governors and shake things up a bit...
GordonPs. I know this might sound petty too, but approaching people like this with an email address of "madtom1999" is probably never a good thing...
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