RE: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection
Jeremy, Sounds awesome! The Sonicwall we own is rated for home and small business and is beginning to show its age and is bottle necking our internet at different time of the day when the firewall CPU maxes out at 100%. Our need for more internet increases yearly as more of the educational process moves to the internet. We are finally moving toward providing remote access to teachers and are looking at ways to extend the campus for students. Add to that ICN internet outages and the whole mess begins to hamper the educational process. Thanks, Tony Richardson, Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District trichard...@humboldt.k12.ia.us From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us on behalf of Pearson, Jeremy Sent: Fri 4/10/2009 8:16 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection Everyone- We are running a Sonicwall 3060 with enhanced firmware, and have had a secondary Internet connection for 3 or 4 years now. We currently have a 5MB Ethernet connection from the ICN, as well as a 5MB Ethernet connection from our local phone company. Other than Lance's note about have to restart the Sonicwall to get back to full operating strength on both connections, it is awesome. You never even know when one link goes down, as the Sonicwall just routes everything out the other link. We will never go back to having one single connection. The only other thing to think about, in our configuration, and end user can really only burst into a 5MB connection, since they are 2 different connections, but depending on the situation, that works better. We originally were doing this on our Fortigate, but at that time it would not allow for load balancing over the links. Scott and I have had those discussions, so I don't know if that problem has been rectified or not. That was the reason we moved to a Sonicwall 3060. If anyone need any more information, ask away. Otherwise, happy Easter everyone!!! Jeremy -Original Message- From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Karl Hehr Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:59 AM To: Info-Tech Subject: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection With this mornings outage it got me thinking. OUr ICN connection is usually quite sound, but do any districts have a secondary connection to the internet? Karl H. Hehr Technology/Curriculum Director South Hamilton CSD www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 515.827.5418 (W) 515.209.9767 (C) 515.827.5368 (F) Luddite by Degrees 1) Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2) Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3) Anything invented after you're 35 is again the natural order of things --- Douglas Adams --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ - --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ - winmail.dat
Re: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection
Mitch, The best think is to look at the help file. If I also remember correctly there is a specific sonicwall document on how to configure dual wan ports. We are off today, but can research that for you Tuesday. From: Mitch Mueller Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 10:42 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection Can somebody show me a print screen of their network interfaces on the sonicwall 3060. So i can see what it looks like. I'm hoping that we can upgrade to a second connection also. Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596 From: Richardson,Tony trichard...@humboldt.k12.ia.us Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 5:03 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection Jeremy, Sounds awesome! The Sonicwall we own is rated for home and small business and is beginning to show its age and is bottle necking our internet at different time of the day when the firewall CPU maxes out at 100%. Our need for more internet increases yearly as more of the educational process moves to the internet. We are finally moving toward providing remote access to teachers and are looking at ways to extend the campus for students. Add to that ICN internet outages and the whole mess begins to hamper the educational process. Thanks, Tony Richardson, Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District trichard...@humboldt.k12.ia.us From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us on behalf of Pearson, Jeremy Sent: Fri 4/10/2009 8:16 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection Everyone- We are running a Sonicwall 3060 with enhanced firmware, and have had a secondary Internet connection for 3 or 4 years now. We currently have a 5MB Ethernet connection from the ICN, as well as a 5MB Ethernet connection from our local phone company. Other than Lance's note about have to restart the Sonicwall to get back to full operating strength on both connections, it is awesome. You never even know when one link goes down, as the Sonicwall just routes everything out the other link. We will never go back to having one single connection. The only other thing to think about, in our configuration, and end user can really only burst into a 5MB connection, since they are 2 different connections, but depending on the situation, that works better. We originally were doing this on our Fortigate, but at that time it would not allow for load balancing over the links. Scott and I have had those discussions, so I don't know if that problem has been rectified or not. That was the reason we moved to a Sonicwall 3060. If anyone need any more information, ask away. Otherwise, happy Easter everyone!!! Jeremy -Original Message- From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Karl Hehr Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:59 AM To: Info-Tech Subject: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection With this mornings outage it got me thinking. OUr ICN connection is usually quite sound, but do any districts have a secondary connection to the internet? Karl H. Hehr Technology/Curriculum Director South Hamilton CSD www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 515.827.5418 (W) 515.209.9767 (C) 515.827.5368 (F) Luddite by Degrees 1) Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2) Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3) Anything invented after you're 35 is again the natural order of things --- Douglas Adams --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ - --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
Re: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection
Sonicwall has offered free upgrades to enhanced OS from time to time. This was only at the time of purchase. I believe if you login to your mysonicwall.com account if you have the enhanced firmware option it will show up there. From: Karl Hehr Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 10:52 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection For those of you with the 3060 and NOT on enhanced OS: If you bought your SonicWall from Rik's make sure you talk with them before you upgrade to the 3060 enhanced. I didn't know that when SH bought their 3060 they also bought the upgrade to enhanced, so I didn't have to pay for the upgrade we already had it. Karl H. Hehr Technology/Curriculum Director South Hamilton CSD www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 515.827.5418 (W) 515.209.9767 (C) 515.827.5368 (F) Luddite by Degrees 1) Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2) Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3) Anything invented after you're 35 is again the natural order of things --- Douglas Adams On Apr 13, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Mitch Mueller wrote: Can somebody show me a print screen of their network interfaces on the sonicwall 3060. So i can see what it looks like. I'm hoping that we can upgrade to a second connection also. Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596 -- From: Richardson,Tony trichard...@humboldt.k12.ia.us Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 5:03 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection Jeremy, Sounds awesome! The Sonicwall we own is rated for home and small business and is beginning to show its age and is bottle necking our internet at different time of the day when the firewall CPU maxes out at 100%. Our need for more internet increases yearly as more of the educational process moves to the internet. We are finally moving toward providing remote access to teachers and are looking at ways to extend the campus for students. Add to that ICN internet outages and the whole mess begins to hamper the educational process. Thanks, Tony Richardson, Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District trichard...@humboldt.k12.ia.us From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us on behalf of Pearson, Jeremy Sent: Fri 4/10/2009 8:16 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection Everyone- We are running a Sonicwall 3060 with enhanced firmware, and have had a secondary Internet connection for 3 or 4 years now. We currently have a 5MB Ethernet connection from the ICN, as well as a 5MB Ethernet connection from our local phone company. Other than Lance's note about have to restart the Sonicwall to get back to full operating strength on both connections, it is awesome. You never even know when one link goes down, as the Sonicwall just routes everything out the other link. We will never go back to having one single connection. The only other thing to think about, in our configuration, and end user can really only burst into a 5MB connection, since they are 2 different connections, but depending on the situation, that works better. We originally were doing this on our Fortigate, but at that time it would not allow for load balancing over the links. Scott and I have had those discussions, so I don't know if that problem has been rectified or not. That was the reason we moved to a Sonicwall 3060. If anyone need any more information, ask away. Otherwise, happy Easter everyone!!! Jeremy -Original Message- From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Karl Hehr Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:59 AM To: Info-Tech Subject: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection With this mornings outage it got me thinking. OUr ICN connection is usually quite sound, but do any districts have a secondary connection to the internet? Karl H. Hehr Technology/Curriculum Director South Hamilton CSD www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 515.827.5418 (W) 515.209.9767 (C) 515.827.5368 (F) Luddite by Degrees 1) Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2) Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3) Anything invented after you're 35 is again the natural order of things --- Douglas Adams --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on
[info-tech] eBay
I know that there are a few of you who use ebay to get parts and items for your schools. How do you do that? I could have saved almost $120 on my most recent printer part but eBay was not an option. The most important piece of this is how do you PAY for things on eBay for school? Do you use a school credit card? Send a check? Pay for it yourself and then get reimbursed? These questions were not answered on my free How to use eBay DVD I got off TV. Karl H. Hehr Technology/Curriculum Director South Hamilton CSD www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 515.827.5418 (W) 515.209.9767 (C) 515.827.5368 (F) Luddite by Degrees 1) Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2) Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3) Anything invented after you're 35 is again the natural order of things --- Douglas Adams --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
Re: [info-tech] eBay
I buy it myself and then get reimbursed from the school. Anything over $400 I don't buy on eBay. Manson Northwest Webster-Home of the Cougars! Brad Kruse (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ Tech. Coord. `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) 1601 15th St.(_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' Manson, IA 50563_..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' 712-469-3919 (li),' ((!.-' Fax 712-469-3131 Karl Hehr karl_h...@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 4/13/2009 2:24 PM I know that there are a few of you who use ebay to get parts and items for your schools. How do you do that? I could have saved almost $120 on my most recent printer part but eBay was not an option. The most important piece of this is how do you PAY for things on eBay for school? Do you use a school credit card? Send a check? Pay for it yourself and then get reimbursed? These questions were not answered on my free How to use eBay DVD I got off TV. Karl H. Hehr Technology/Curriculum Director South Hamilton CSD www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 515.827.5418 (W) 515.209.9767 (C) 515.827.5368 (F) Luddite by Degrees 1) Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2) Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3) Anything invented after you're 35 is again the natural order of things --- Douglas Adams --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
