Evening all, After extensive Googling, I am not coming up with anything, and hoping you can help. I currently connect to the internet on my macbook using an Openzone wi-fi hotspot and an unlimited subscription to Openzone at £12.50 a month.

50% of the time, this is perfect, however the other 50% of the time my macbook will connect to the network, however it does not get assigned an ip; and therefore does this itself. This means that I therefore can't get online.

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This is driving me crazy, and according to a few results on google, is a common problem. Does anyone have any ideas or solutions? Is there a way I can assign a permanent ip address (Static????) Or a way that I can stop my laptop assigning it's own ip?

Sorry to drag up an old thread, but still having problems here. It seemed to sort itself out for a short while, but is getting bad again. DHCP is set to automatic, and problem still occur; it's as though the macbook is assigning it's own ip before the hotspot has even had the opportunity to do so. Can i set a delay for this? It's becoming very tedious to sit there refreshing the DHCP for half an hour before I can go online!! Alternatively, I'm over my 14 day cooling off period of the contract; where do i stand with a cancellation? That could be a tough one I guess.

Do you get the same issue on other networks - i.e. Try logging into another wireless network somewhere and see if you get the same issues. Is it a plain MacBook or a MacBook Pro? There are some known issues with various configurations of firmware/OS/machine/built in Airport cards and certain types of WiFi networks - where randomly it will just drop the WiFi connection and you have to reboot to reconnect or it will not connect at all. I had a similar problem with one of my Macs and an older BT Homehub - tried all of the above and no joy. Recently upgraded to new router - latest spec WiFi and now no issues.

There is a another fix posted on one of the Mac Forums where you can try and replace the built in Airport card in you MacBook. This doesnt sound like an Openzone issue.

Today’s Times carries a story headlined “Millions wasted on benefits reform IT”. Part of the article relates to complexity of and potential fraud with the system, another part relates to the cost of useless IT developed for the project have risen to £40.1 million.

That is £6 million more than the figure flagged up in a devastating report by the NAO earlier this year. Officials said that IT worth an additional £91 million will be replaced by the end of 2017. This Post is nothing to do benefits, or whether such money is being wasted, rather where funds for IT could be well-spent in the Criminal Justice System.

Back in June Damien Green, Minister for Policing, Criminal Justice & Victims, announced that, ““. The Court Service, it was announced, will be fully digital by 2016. Meanwhile the Crown Prosecution Service have been moving towards paperless Prosecutions, as the notes under “Progress Review – what we achieved in 2012-2013” We have continued to work closely with partner agencies and professions throughout criminal justice to maximise digital working, including serving digital information to defence practices and the Criminal Bar. Both projects are laudable, unless you’re a Luddite: but that’s not the Bar. The Bar left quill pens behind many years ago. There is a great deal of sense in not paying to shift vast amounts of paper around the country, whether that is from the CPS to Courts, to the Bar, or between Advocates. Sadly the whole system is let down by infrastructure -’twas ever thus.

So much more could be done even now if only Courts had secure wifi. Whilst BT Openzone is available in most Courts, it is very limited. It’s provided by BT through agreement with HMCTS, but is geared towards making the ‘Court Experience’ more user-friendly. For user, read visitor rather than practitioner. Among its many problems practitioners find (i) it’s insecure, (ii) it’s extremely slow, (iii) unless standing in precisely the right spot the connection fails – which means the one place where it is really required, in Court, is more often not out of range of the router (putting aside (i) & (ii)).

According to (dating from May 2013) secure wifi is available at 3 Courts: Birmingham and Chelmsford Magistrates’ Courts and Croydon Crown Court. One only needs to contrast this list of 3 against the lists of Courts in England and Wales to see whether the 2016 announcement is achievable.

“So what!” you say, “use BT Openzone.” Well you see there is this paradox, that the wifi available in most Court buildings, should not in fact be used by practitioners at all. One is expressly prohibited from using it alongside (the secure email service) Do the terms of use prohibit the use of WiFi – or possibly unencrypted WiFi – for secure e-mail? CJSM may be accessed by secure WiFi but NOT by unsecured WiFi as the initial transmission to the website may be intercepted and subsequently the user log in details captured. Why is CJSM important?

Well it is only through CJSM that the Crown Prosecution Service send digital papers. So unless and until HMCTS provide secure wifi, the rest of the digital revolution is on hold. It’s all very well having ‘all singing and dancing’ electronic devices, but if the information cannot be sent to these and sent to these at Court, then the full digital potential is never going to be realised.

And with that the potential savings in time and money cannot be made. The full digital revolution means screens in Court for all to use; a Cloud storing documents and images.

That would be lovely, but is it urgently required, no. What is urgently required is the means of communication. I wonder whether £91 millions worth of secure wifi equipment would be obsolete by 2017? Posted in Tagged,. Back in September I posted re:, reminding practitioners that BT Openzone is not a secure Wifi.

This remains the position, though recently one Crown Court I know tackled this, in their own way (deliberately or otherwise), by turning the Wifi off. It still remains the case that 3G technology is secure, 4G will be too, I am told: though individuals looking for an excuse to buy the new iPad might want to up before they do. The need for a possible way round the lack of Court secure Wifi was thrown further into focus when I recently attended a CPS presentation on paperless digital Briefs.

It is common knowledge that the CPS are looking to send out papers digitally, but I had not appreciated that this advance would include emailing up-dated papers to an Advocate at Court; it is however a natural/inevitable progression. Thus, when covering an unforeseen hearing (the execution of a Bench Warrant is a prime example) up-to-date papers could be sent digitally.

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When the issue of Wifi security was raised, the response was that the Courts would have to upgrade their Wifi; the advances would be pursued even if it meant that other agencies would have to catch-up. I understand their point of view, but with budgets as they are presently I can’t see the M of J forking-out for new Wifi in Courts. So 3G it may well have to be. The latest news regarding using CJSM on the iPad and iPhone is that these are still in the first phase of testing for the FIPS 140-2 standard. Can’t be used. Posted inTagged,. At this time of year many look back and review the year just gone; so last week I posted the first of 3 posts looking over the Apps I have found the most useful in the past 12 months (see ).

To my mind the iPad should be viewed as useful tool, and not just as some sort gimic. Not only is there the weight v stored contents issue, but also it is a very useful tool to help in the running of a practice away from Chambers, particularly during those times of hanging around Court. So this week’s review is of 4 simple Apps that I find make life just a little easier. First is: I agree that to use it one has to be a BT broadband customer, but if you are this is a really good little App as it provides a quick portal to free BT Fon and BT Openzone Wi-fi hotspots. Given the value of free Wi-Fi it’s almost worth sitting down and seeing whether one’s current broadband supplier is actually the most cost-efficient. There is the issue of security , but putting that to one side, BTFON Wi-Fi pretty much provides a Wi-Fi only iPad with the same connectivity at Court as the Wi-Fi & 3G version (without the monthly subscription and increased purchase price). In the last post I touched on syncing documents between iPad and computer.

There are a number of Apps available for this and many use; that App is slightly more advanced than I need, and there are of course some issues about storing sensitive documents in a Cloud. For a method to simply transfer documents over a Wi-Fi network between iPad and Mac, between Macs, between iPhone and iPad, or iPhone and Mac, I use. This is just such simple App, open DropCopy on two devices and drag the document/folder into the black hole and it reappears instantaneously (well, as fast as the Wi-Fi is) on the other device. The sound effects are great too, loved by children and adults alike. Of course data can be transferred via iTunes/iCloud, but DropCopy is simple and fun to use.

An issue with sending emails from an iPad is the signature that is added to the foot of each email. ‘From my iPad’ is not necessarily the best footnote to business emails, and a business signature is not necessarily the best for family messages. One is too informal and the other is too formal.

My way around this is to use, an iPhone app that works on both iPhone and iPad (so on two devices for the price of one). This allows the user to have 6 different signatures from business to personal via social network. Images and links may be inserted, it’s simple to set up and the end product is professional.

You just have to remember to delete, “From my iPad” from Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendar/Signature or you get both the default iPad signature and the inserted signature from the App. Lastly is another simple App:. Ever wondered about adding a signature into a document – well here’s your answer. If an App is about doing one thing simply and well then Autograph does that. There are a number of permutations as the App can be downloaded for Mac, iPhone and iPad. With the former you sign using the trackpad, with the latter two you sign on the screen. The signature is then inserted into the document or email.

Of course there are other Apps that do this – but I find that this one is just simple and works across a number of devices; additionally it seems to have in-built security so one’s signature cannot be recycled. It also has the added attraction that it’s free! This time the cost is just under £6 for the Apps, 2 are free.

Posted in Tagged,. I’ve recently attended a meeting with the CPS and Court Service that covered many matters, but for these purposes the key area was secure e-mail. Some years ago the Government set up a secure e-mail server – essentially it was an intranet for public service employees (largely recognised by a gsi.gov.uk e-mail address). Many legal professionals are outside the intranet, so to help them was set up. In effect this means those outside need to set up a new e-mail account @.cjsm.net (where.

Is their workplace). To send an e-mail from outside into the government intranet a cjsm user has to add cjsm.net to the end of a government e-mail address: thus (using a Crown Prosecution Service e-mail address (having signed up for cjsm)) the e-mail address becomes.@cps.gsi.gov.uk.cjsm.net (which is a real mouth-full).

In the past I’ve posted regarding. This can be a useful tool at Court BUT it now turns out that though the Court Service has allowed Wifi to be put in (presumably there is some sort of commercial reason) with BT Openzone, this is not secure. The requirement for secure email is one thing, and many will agree that it is useful. But one really has to doubt the credibility of a Government Service that allows a non-secure Wifi system to be installed yet wants legal professionals to use it – indeed Government Departments are likely to insist that in the future those outside the Government should use secure e-mail via cjsm.net to send and receive Government mail.

A better person might ask why one Government Service in charge of e-mail security between professionals would allow another Government Service to permit the installation of a non-secure server in a sensitive location. To be frank this does beggar belief – why set up non-secure Wifi zones in Courts?

What is the point? Where else would one anticipate sensitive documents being circulated? It’s not as if one would take a child to Court to surf the internet, as say in a High Street coffee bar.

So why set up commercially a non-secure Wifi system? Because whether or not one uses secure e-mail, if the server is not secure, any message might be intercepted between the sending apparatus and the server. Going to back to the subject matter of more usual posts to this Blog; after all it seems, according to (the body that administers secure government e-mail), that using 3G technology is secure.

Do throw that into the melting point. Posted in Tagged,. Wifi or Wifi+3G? That’s the latest query that I’ve been fielding. Of course the answer is entirely up to the individual. On the one hand, if you’re in a Court where you would expect to be able to get mobile phone reception then 3G is likely to always work.

On the other hand, a 3G iPad is invariably more expensive to buy, and there is a monthly subscription of some sort. What of the basic Wifi iPad?

Well, most Courts have BT Openzone installed, though it is correct to say that reception within Courts is entirely dependant on the location of the Openzone access points – so is patchy. Those who have a BT Broadband contract should be able to use the app, which does have a few teething problems, but I do find generally works well at Court. In the alternative, using Safari to access the internet will bring up the BT Openzone log-in page; from the drop down menu BT Broadband can be selected. To use this method you do need to have to hand both your BT email address and your BT email password. The iPad, will of course remember this for you for the future providing you have selected AutoFill (See Settings, Safari, AutoFill). Those without BT Broadband at home can buy access to BT Openzone. Similarly access with other users e.g.

Is available. Feedback for these posts is welcome, so I set out my experience, but it may not wholly reflect the experience of others: you can’t use your mobile phone’s 3G contract to operate a Wifi iPad directly – connection cannot be gained by inputting phone number and password on to the provider’s access website. In my experience most iPad users have iPhones: those with an iPhone 4 (but not the 3GS) can can create a Wifi, those with a 3GS can tether using Bluetooth (again see Settings, General, Set Up Personal Hotspot). As for the 3GS, so far as I can determine one of the the downsides is that the phone cannot receive calls whilst tethered. Depending on your mobile phone provider there may be an additional charge for tethering: mobile phone providers seem to be forever changing what they offer and their prices.

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As you’ll have gathered I use my free access to BT Openzone by virtue of having BT Broadband at home. Other home Broadband providers may very well also provide free access. As for deciding between which version, Wifi or Wifi+3G the decision has to be for the user; true it might be useful to have the capacity of being able to access the internet wherever, but do you need to be always available? Do you want the expense of an extra contract, do you want to pay the extra for the 3G version?

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