{"id":142,"date":"2016-02-04T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/ictmoray\/?p=142"},"modified":"2016-02-04T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T16:04:13","slug":"why-is-my-internet-so-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/ictmoray\/2016\/02\/04\/why-is-my-internet-so-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is my internet so slow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/public\/ictmoray\/uploads\/sites\/5142\/2016\/02\/Slow-internet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-143 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/public\/ictmoray\/uploads\/sites\/5142\/2016\/02\/Slow-internet.jpg\" alt=\"Slow internet\" width=\"285\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that the Central link has been upgraded several schools are finding that their own connection is being fully utilised which leads\u00a0to the school running slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Many schools are unsure how all of the\u00a0bandwidth is being used and aren&#8217;t aware of which sites could be using the bandwidth. ICT have checked the logs and the following sites are the top bandwidth users for Education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>SUMDOG\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0COOL MATHS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 APPLE DOWNLOADS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If multiple users within your school are using the\u00a0sites above, or any steaming media sites (Youtube, iPlayer, Video Sites, Radio Stations etc.), at the same time then the bandwidth within the school can become saturated.<\/p>\n<p>One way of checking if this is the cause of slow speeds in your school is to check if the internet is still slow over lunch time when the pupils are not on the PCs.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately until the Pathfinder Network is upgraded to SWAN later this year there is no way of increasing your schools bandwidth.\u00a0Schools could try\u00a0scheduling the use of sites like the ones above to help until the bandwidth is increased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the Central link has been upgraded several schools are finding that their own connection is being fully utilised which leads\u00a0to the school running slowly. Many schools are unsure how all of the\u00a0bandwidth is being used and aren&#8217;t aware of which sites could be using the bandwidth. ICT have checked the logs and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/ictmoray\/2016\/02\/04\/why-is-my-internet-so-slow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is my internet so slow?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/ictmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/ictmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/ictmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/ictmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/ictmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/ictmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/ictmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/ictmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/ictmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/ictmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}