Dead spots, dropped connections, and three network names nobody understands. I plan the network for your building, install it, and hand you the documentation.
Most small business networks weren't designed. They accumulated. The internet company left a box, someone added a router, then a range extender when the back office complained, then another one. Now there are three WiFi names, the video calls drop, and nobody knows which box does what.
I replace that pile with a network that was actually planned for your building. One WiFi name that follows you from the front counter to the stock room. Wired connections where wired makes sense. A guest network that gives customers internet without putting them on the same network as your till and your files.
I install Ubiquiti equipment for almost every network job. Not because it's the fanciest, but because it's the same system every time, which matters more than it sounds.
It means I can see your whole network on one screen instead of logging into four different boxes. It means when you add a camera or an access point in two years, it fits what's already there. It means if you ever stop working with me, you own normal equipment that any competent technician can pick up, not something proprietary that locks you in.
It also means I'm genuinely good at it, because I'm not relearning a new system on your job.
Where people actually work, where the walls are thick, where the cable can and can't go. A floor plan tells you less than ten minutes of walking around with a laptop.
Wired connections for the things that shouldn't be on WiFi: desktops, cameras, card readers, the back office. Run properly and labelled at both ends.
Enough coverage for the whole building, positioned for where people work, on one network name that hands off as you walk.
Customers get internet. They don't get access to your computers, your files, or your cameras.
Default passwords changed, firmware current, the configuration written down and handed to you.
A diagram of what's where, what it's called, and how to get into it. It's your network. You should have the keys.
On pricing. Network jobs get quoted, not billed hourly, because the cost depends on the building and how much cable has to go in. I walk the site, then give you a fixed number for equipment and labor before anything is ordered.
I'll walk the building, tell you what it needs, and quote a fixed price before anything gets ordered.