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WhatsApp in School

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Evening everyone.

One more topic tobe solvedon the bucket list today...

To cut to the chase, we are reluctantly enabling WhatsApp for pupils to access in our schools through Smoothwall (our firewall) and be used during their break times.

At the moment, we have opened several ports and allowed certain URLs to accommodate the needs of the App. Unfortunately, when sending a message fromone device to another through the WiFi using WhatsApp, it will sit as pending (with the clock) and never go through until it finds a cellular connection.

The ports we have opened are:

TCP & UDP 5223

TCP & UDP 80

TCP & UDP 5222

TCP & UDP 443

TCP & UDP 4244

TCP & UDP 5242

TCP & UDP 5228

Has anyone else experienced any other issues similar to this? Are there ports or URLs that must be unblocked or any port forwarding that needs to be done?

(Update #1: To add to this, we...


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