Networking & Wi-Fi

A slow wifi ticket could have a dozen root causes. Here is the diagnostic ladder for finding the real one fast, from the client device out to the ISP.

A switch total PoE budget is a fixed number, not per-port max times port count. Here is how to size it correctly for a small office.

A single ISP outage can shut down phones, card readers, and cloud logins for hours. For a small business running everything through one internet connection, that’s not an inconvenience — it’s a full s

Picking a small business Wi-Fi platform used to mean picking a single access point. It doesn’t anymore — UniFi, Omada, and Aruba Instant On are ecosystems, and once you buy into one, your switches, ac

This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through our links we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Prices verified August 2026 — check current pricing before you buy. Short answer: if your Wi-Fi 6 network works, do not replace it in 2026. You would spend roughly $1,100 to $1,400…

How to build a functional small business server room in 2026 — rack, UPS, cooling, structured cabling, physical security, and when you can skip the whole thing.

Why Cabling Still Matters in a Wireless Office "Why do we need cables? Everything’s wireless now." It’s the reasonable first question, and it’s wrong. Every wireless access point in your office needs a cable running to it. Every PoE camera, every VoIP desk phone, every printer, every desktop that lives at a fixed workstation —…

The Small Office WiFi Problem Small offices consistently under-buy WiFi. The typical story: someone bought a $200 consumer mesh three-pack for a two-thousand-square-foot office, it worked fine for three people, and then the office grew to eleven, added a conference room with video meetings, and started dropping VoIP calls. Now the meeting room WiFi is…

Why a UPS Matters for Small Business Every small business owner has lived through the version of this story where the office lights flicker for two seconds, the router reboots, the file server drops a database write halfway through, and someone loses an hour of work. Or the version where a storm knocks out power…

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