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Wi-Fi, internet security, connection troubleshooting, and networking for small businesses. All written in-house.

Security

Online Meeting and Screen Sharing Security

What leaks from online meetings is rarely the result of eavesdropping. It's usually a notification popping up on a shared screen, or a meeting link passed around a group chat.

Networking

Ports and Protocols Worth Knowing

When the internet works but one app won't connect, it's almost always a single door closed rather than the whole connection failing.

Regulation

Wi-Fi Frequency and Transmit Power Rules

Wi-Fi uses licence-exempt spectrum, not rule-exempt spectrum. The limits sit on transmit power, permitted channels, and device certification.

Troubleshooting

Network Problems After a Power Outage

After an outage, the startup order decides everything. A router that wakes faster than the modem fails to get a connection and never retries.

For Business

Internet for Market Traders and Street Vendors

A street vendor can't install fibre. What matters here is cell signal, battery, and one thing usually forgotten: a fallback for when payment fails.

Hardware

Automatic Backups on Your Home Network

Most people lose data not because they had no backup, but because their last backup was made eight months ago.

For Business

Networking for Laundries and Courier Agents

In a laundry, steam from the dryers and lint from fabric are what kill routers fastest. At a courier agent, it's the label printer that keeps vanishing from the network.

For Business

Networking for Photo Studios and Print Shops

In a print shop, what matters isn't internet speed but in-room network speed. One 800 MB file going over Wi-Fi keeps everyone waiting.

Hardware

Setting Up the Network for Your TV Corner

One corner of the room holds five devices that all want internet, and the router is in another room. That's a layout problem, not a plan-speed problem.

Troubleshooting

Wi-Fi Drops When the Aircon or Water Pump Starts

The pattern is too neat to be coincidence: the water pump starts, and two seconds later everyone in the house loses their connection. The cause is rarely the Wi-Fi.

For Business

Networking for Pharmacies and Dental Clinics

In a room six metres by four, there's a prescription computer, a card terminal, cameras, digital X-ray equipment, and waiting patients' phones. All on one connection.

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