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When Wi-Fi dies in the stockroom, the instinct is to add another access point. Often that makes things worse. Here is a practical walk-through of channel overlap, placement, PoE limits and guest traffic, plus when to stop buying boxes and call a cabler.
Most UK small businesses do not have an IT budget; they have a monthly guess that someone made years ago and nobody has revisited. The gap now shows up as slow laptops, licence creep and awkward cyber insurance questionnaires. Here is how to rebuild the number for 2026 without panic-buying.
Free or cheap IT help can feel like a small-business win until the backups are missing, the updates have stalled and nobody knows the admin password. Here is how to spot when informal support has become a business risk, and how to move to accountable help without turning a family favour into a fallout.
Openreach's copper network stops being sold in January 2027 and disappears entirely by the end of that year, and plenty of small firms have far more hanging off it than a desk phone. Here's what is genuinely at stake, which kit tends to get forgotten, and a migration plan you can work through in an afternoon of ringing round.
No budget, no sales call, no jargon. Spend an hour before home time on these twelve checks and you’ll sleep better over the weekend.