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Wi-Fi coverage, routers, structured cabling, fibre and PoE.
Networking, Wi-Fi & Fibre Optics
25 min
When staff say "the internet is slow", the connection is often not the problem: it is one router trying to serve forty devices through stone walls. Th...
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Networking, Wi-Fi & Fibre Optics
40 min
A reset wipes a MikroTik router back to its default configuration, or to nothing at all. Done well it takes twenty minutes; done in a hurry it erases...
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Networking, Wi-Fi & Fibre Optics
20 min
Troubleshooting fix
Slow Wi-Fi is rarely one fault. It is usually distance, thick walls, a crowded channel or simply the internet plan. One wired test tells you which hal...
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Networking, Wi-Fi & Fibre Optics
12 min
A network switch is the box that connects the wired devices in a building so they can talk to each other and reach the internet. This guide explains h...
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Networking, Wi-Fi & Fibre Optics
12 min
Comparison
Fibre optic cable carries data as light through glass, while Ethernet cable carries it as electrical signals through copper. This guide compares the t...
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Networking, Wi-Fi & Fibre Optics
30 min
Troubleshooting fix
When a MikroTik router loses the internet, the fault is almost always in one of five places: the line from the ISP, the WAN address, the default route...
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Networking, Wi-Fi & Fibre Optics
45 min
Troubleshooting fix
Wi-Fi dead zones happen when walls, distance or a badly placed router stop the signal reaching a room. Map them with a phone, rule out cheap fixes, th...
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Networking, Wi-Fi & Fibre Optics
15 min
Zanzibar resource
A Zanzibar hotel needs guest Wi-Fi that reaches every room, a separate network for staff, payments and CCTV, and power backup that survives the daily...
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Networking, Wi-Fi & Fibre Optics
15 min
Zanzibar resource
A site with several buildings needs a fibre backbone in ducts from one core room to a cabinet in each building, a UPS in every cabinet and separate ne...
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Networking, Wi-Fi & Fibre Optics
10 min
Comparison
Mesh kits link their units to each other over the air; managed access points each have their own cable back to a switch. That difference, wireless or...
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