Wi-Fi
September 17, 2026 | 23 min
After the Wi-Fi Installation Is Signed Off, Who Runs It? A Hong Kong Retail Chain's Wireless Network Solution
A Hong Kong retail chain's fourteen outlets each got a proper Wi-Fi installation from whichever contractor won the fit-out, and each was signed off. What that produces eighteen months later (till outages that need a site visit, every new shop rebuilt from scratch, firmware nobody upgrades, no record for an auditor), why the real question is who runs the network for five years after acceptance, three ways to manage Wi-Fi across a chain, and what a managed controller looks like in practice, with pricing read on 17 September 2026.
September 16, 2026 | 17 min
The Controller Nobody Wanted to Run: Why a Three-Office Firm Stopped Hosting Its Own Wi-Fi Brain
A cross-market guide for anyone who already owns UniFi access points and is deciding how to run the controller. What a controller actually is and why "free software" is the most expensive sentence in the decision, the three ways to run one with what each really costs, the three things that break at three sites, what changes when someone else operates it, the Protect/Access/Talk boundary as architecture rather than a limitation, and the per-access-point figure read from source on 16 September 2026.
September 04, 2026 | 21 min
Guests Complained About Wi-Fi, Not Rooms: Managed Wireless at a Hong Kong Serviced Office Operator
A composite scenario from Hong Kong: a serviced-office operator running four locations keeps hearing the same tenant complaint — Wi-Fi, not the fit-out — and finds each site's wireless was set up separately with no shared standard and nobody able to see all four at once. Why the real question is who runs the UniFi controller, what Brocent's hosted controller covers at a per-access-point monthly price, where the scope boundary sits, and why the managed IT plan is still the thing that solves the underlying problem.
