I need a quote for a computer wallplug please

Biohazard said:
Potentially breaking confidential service agreements?
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I haven't broken any confidential service agreements and not mentioned any companies.
I have merely asked for a quote and also been given other solutions (which I'd already thought about).
Everybody is safe and no harm done.

HOWEVER, I do work in the same department as the Information Manager and if Freedom Of Information takes into account how many surgeons have HIV and other such nonsense then I'm sure it is FOI to ask how much our service contracts cost since we the taxpayer pay for them.
It's not a secret.
 
Potentially, Dave, you missed that quite important feature of that sentence. I didn't say you did, just that you might be about too. Avenues of information release, such as FOI, are there for a reason and not for you or I to circumvent. But I'm sure you know best.
 
mrbell1984 said:
It's a temp solution but if it's not done right with proper runs it can get messy in no time .... try saying that with 6000 workstations to look after.
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I see your point but let's say there are 30 PCs in an office all with their own wallport, would adding a scanner on a switcher with a PC be a problem?
 
Dimple said:
It wouldn't surprise me if there was some IT policy that says every piece of equipment has to have it's own IP address but I am going to ask the questions.
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As an alternative to a splitter, a single socket could be rewired as a pair of sockets.
 
Dimple said:
I see your point but let's say there are 30 PCs in an office all with their own wallport, would adding a scanner on a switcher with a PC be a problem?
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No not for just 30 PC's but in your cae it will be OK with such a small place but could you imaging 6K?.... not nice when you administrate a network with mini switches plugged in everywhere.

Cat5 splitters will be perfect for what you want as long as you get the right ones... one goes in the ethernet socket and one in the cab in the patch panel then split into the switch. Much more tidy than a switch!
 
This shouldn't be your problem dimple, as, and i mean this with no ill intent; you don't seem to know enough about it.

A small switch could work fine, but it's not a perm solution as suggested above.
Also depending upon the current set up, it could not work at all.

We used to have printers and scanners on a different network at work, which entailed a different switch. We've got them all on the same with a different subnet now, but if someone moved a printer onto a switch with a pc, it wouldn't of worked.

Talk to someone in IT about taking it over.
 
Joshct said:
This shouldn't be your problem dimple, as, and i mean this with no ill intent; you don't seem to know enough about it.
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Absolutely true but I've been asked to see if I can find a solution so I go to the experts and where better to start than on OCUK.
I know from experience that IT will just generally say 'no' but if you can present ideas to them it can sometimes work so that's why I ask here first.
I've got a feeling that splitters and switchers won't be allowed but I will ask IT.
The simple solution is to install the e-Copy software to the several PCs of the main people that use the scanner and have the scanner on a trolley.
 
In the local authority that I consult at they use switches at office side when they need to increase capacity. It will only effect the other terminals plugged into that switch (so only 1) and it will be minute. If you whacked a 16 port on it with 15 terminals then plugged that in then yeah you would notice it but not 2 terminals sharing 1 cable.

Obviously IT need assign the scanner an ip address.
 
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