How to Optimise Your Wi-Fi Connection in the Office
With so much work and customer communication relying on the internet these days, there is nothing more frustrating to office workers than when the Wi-Fi connection goes down or provides only a patchy service.
With so much reliance on good internet for businesses to operate these days, optimising your Wi-fi connection is an important business strategy which could literally be the difference between a company surviving or closing down.
If salespeople can’t connect to customers, or your website keeps crashing so no-one can place orders, or your video calls are all delayed and faulty, people are going to lose patience with your business and move on to a more reliable company very quickly.
So, if your Wi-Fi connection is causing issues there are several things you can look at to resolve the issue. The first thing to do is consider whether your internet service provider is at fault. Are they actually delivering the bandwidth and connection speed they promised you?
It might be that your company has actually outgrown the service that you initially set up, making the connection struggle. There’s also the question of whether you have the right equipment, having an advanced wifi device supporting WI-FI6E technology can truly help.
If either of these issues is the case, then it’s time to review your internet service provider and potentially look for a new one.
However, if it’s not to do with your ISP, then why not try these five quick and easy ways to optimise your Wi-Fi connection at the office:
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Check your Wi-Fi network security
If your Wi-Fi is becoming slow or you are having connection issues it might be that your settings are open and people outside of the office are using your Wi-Fi signal and taking up your connection for their own use.
Make sure your Wi-Fi connection is secure and password protected, and change your password on a regular basis as well, that way anyone who leaves the company won’t have access either and it will stop people who might manage to guess it.
Keeping you Wi-Fi connection secure will also help to make it more difficult for any hackers to get access to your company system so helping to keep your business and customer data much more secure as well.
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Check your router channel
If your router as different channel options, you might want to review this as sometimes channels can get overcrowded and overused by other local businesses.
If you started out using a particular channel on your router it may well be that it’s no longer the best choice for an optimised Wi-Fi connection, so try changing to a quieter channel as this might well help to increase your connection speeds.
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Assess your business data usage
If your connection is suddenly slow at particular times of the day try assessing the type of data or applications and devices which are being used and accessed by employees at that time so you can work out if there is a particular issue.
It might be that if everyone logs onto a certain app at the same time, it slows your system down so you could then stagger use of that particular app throughout the day to avoid the problem.
Talk to your employees to find out what they are using and when the connections slow down and then you can work together to come up with a solution by adapting the way the teams are working internally.
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Check your router position
When it comes to getting an effective Wi-Fi signal, the position of your router can have a big impact so assess where you have your router positioned. Placing it as high up as possible works much better than having it on the floor under a desk, for example.
You might need to walk around the office with it, while assessing the signal levels, before finding exactly the right spot. Also, be careful not to place it somewhere where it can overheat, like near a radiator or by a window in direct sunlight, as this will also stop it working effectively.
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Use a Wi-Fi management solution
One of the problems is there are just too many apps vying for internet access across your business, at the same time. But a Wi-Fi management solution can help to prioritise certain apps over others.
That way, if you are using the band width for an important video call, the system will prioritise that app to have Wi-Fi access, if someone else on your team tries to get on the internet to check the news, or open a different app.
Rather than your call being interrupted, the system will give you priority and your colleague will need to wait a bit longer to check what’s happening in the world. This helps to support the business without having to ban use of certain apps by staff.
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