Avoid Mistakes When Setting up Your Small Business Wifi

Mobile devices are now as essential to workplaces that means a fast and reliable wireless network is necessary as well. If you have never done it before, setting a Wi-Fi network fast enough for your business can be very tricky. Here are some common mistakes and suggested solutions to avoid them.

Overloading the wireless router

In general, it is common to start with an entry wireless network when setting up your router. However, the business grows with high appliances plus into the mix, many consumer routers are overloaded by the mass usage. The solution is to set up a stand-alone network switch and access point. Turn off some clients to the access point will reduce the overloading on your network and increase your local network’s speed.

Under provisioning your Wi-Fi network

Another mistake is relying on only one access point regardless of the network load. You had better should err on the side of over-coverage. Installing multiple access points up front reduces the risk of productivity killing bottlenecks.

Multiple mobile devices

Installing mulitiple access points will ease the stress on your network caused by many connected mobile devices.

Bad placement of Wi-Fi access points

The physical location of a Wi-Fi access point is very important, as you will quickly find if you place it in alcove, beside large metallic fixtures or cupboards,…etc. These locations may weaken your Wi-Fi signal. A simple way to assess possible locations is visualizing the wireless signals from the access point in a straight line.

Expecting to get the speeds shown on the box

It’s easy to be addicted by the 300Mbps or 450Mbps speeds wireless routers. However, they are theoretical and do not accounted for real conditions or overheads inherent to wireless networks. If you need to transfer large files across your local network, you should set up a wired Gigabit network.

Using your router’s default channel

When you need your network to run quickly, it is necessary to start using your router without changing the default channel. To avoid this, you may change the channel on your device when you set up.