Broadband Service Information

Service problems and planned maintenance

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Broadband Usage

Graphs showing the use made by schools of the broadband service

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Broadband System Checks

Some tests that schools can carry out to verify the operation of their broadband connection, Click here.

Filtering and Monitoring your broadband service

Levels of support available for monitoring of Internet usage on the Broadband Sandwell network. Click here to find out more.

Comparing Broadband services

Why use the Sandwell service? Why is the broadband I have at home cheaper than the one we have at school? To read the guidance from Becta and information about the National Education Network, Click here.

Proxy Servers

Information of a technical nature relating to your Proxy Servers, clearing caches, fixing startup problems and so on. Click here for more information

Broadband Sandwell Circulars

An index of LEA circulars and advice posted by Broadband Sandwell.

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Video Conferencing

Video Conferencing on your broadband service: we support a variety of standards, including IP to IP over the broadband WAN, E163 to external systems that support this standard, and Click To Meet web based conferencing internally and externally.

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