managed wireless

September 17, 2026 | 25 min

The Auditor Asked to See the Guest Network: Captive Portal and Network Separation at a Hong Kong Firm

A Hong Kong firm's guest Wi-Fi worked fine, until a client's supplier review asked for evidence that visitors could not reach the file server. Why "we have guest Wi-Fi" and "guest Wi-Fi is segregated" are different claims, what a captive portal does and does not prove, what auditors actually ask for and what tends to satisfy them, an honest look at rolling out 802.1X, and a realistic five-week response sequence.

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.