Superspeed your network for free… (or nearly)

A slow network hampers your productivity, and it’s also frankly embarrassing – it sends a message to your staff, and to any external parties who may access it. Yet it’s an area where major improvements can frequently be made with some tweaks to your settings that don’t cost apenny, a side from the engineer time and expertise required to implement them. There are plenty more upgrades that aren’t free but whose price is, by the standards of corporate networking budgets, barely worth worrying about.

Getting the required results isn’t necessarily straightforward, because there are a lot of different ways in which a network can be slow. One business I shall not name used a cheap Wi-Fi base station and a corporate Dropbox account for storage and collaboration. The network was fast enough for day-to-day work, but not for continually syncing large amounts of data to and from everyone’s computer, resulting in workers having to hang around and wait for all their data to come down the line before they could leave for the day.

Wired vs wireless

There’s one major divide that relates to a large proportion of companies, and that’s wired versus wireless networks. There are all sorts of fundamental differences between these two networking models, one of them being that you can spend several grand putting a top-speed several grand putting a top-speed Wi-Fi 6 connection in place in, while a patch cable can be bought using the dusty