Re: Internet access control queston?

Good idea but unfortunately not so easy in reality. There are laws here that
make it difficult to fire people that have been employed for several years,
the cost of litigation when unions become involved ends up being
prohibitive, the management's time spent on that discipline enforcment takes
them away from doing their essential job which is growing and improving the
company and they are loath fire unless absolutely necessary because it ends
up poisoning the workplace relations. So they would prefer just being able
to prevent the misuse smoothly with a techno solution.
Thanks for the idea.
Bob


"3c273" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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1) Setup a proxy server
2) Check the log
3) Fire the first person you catch misusing it
4) Tell everyone else why that person got fired
Game over!

Louis
Just a thought :-)

"Bob" <bdufour@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We got a small network (w2k, sp4, a domain and about 40 workstations). We
have a problem with employees using up a limited amount of bandwidth (we
can
only get Cable connections) downloading non work related files like music
and videos and generally slowing down our legitimate other network
traffic.

I have been tasked with finding a solution that will prevent them from
downloading non work related content in order to preserve bandwidth (I'm
still not totally sure how to define that, there may be valid multimedia
files that are ok to get for instance).

The solution should be one over which centralized control can be had .
That
is, we should not have to set things up on each individual user's
machine.

Our Internet access currently is via a Watchguard firewall, but this by
itself does not seem flexible enough to do this kind of work.

Any insight on how best to achieve this would be greatly appreciated.

Bob









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