Business Wi-Fi and networks in Wigan
Coverage for mill conversions, estate units and everything between, across a borough where no two buildings behave the same way.
On the ground in Wigan
Wigan gives us an unusually wide range of buildings, and the Wi-Fi design has to change with them.
In the town centre and Standish, a lot of the commercial stock is mill and warehouse conversion. They look ideal on a floorplan and behave badly in practice: thick masonry, exposed steel, high ceilings and services running everywhere. Coverage has to be surveyed rather than calculated, because the plan tells you very little about how signal actually moves through a building like that.
On the estates around Martland Park, Kitt Green and the M6, the buildings are steel-framed units where the problem is reaching the working areas rather than the offices, and where the yard usually needs including too.
If you run several sites, the bigger win is consistency: the same equipment, one controller showing every access point across the borough, and one place to look when somebody reports a problem rather than three different systems and three different passwords.
We come across on the A580 or the motorway, around forty minutes.
Sound familiar?
Almost every Wi-Fi complaint we are called out to comes down to a building that was never surveyed, or a plan that followed the desks rather than the people.
Thick masonry, exposed steel and high ceilings all change how signal travels, and open plan does not mean open to radio.
Different equipment and different passwords at each location, with nobody able to see the whole estate when something goes wrong.
A single consumer router covering a converted floor was never going to work, and adding a second one on the same channel makes it worse.
Access points added one at a time over the years, on overlapping channels at full power, interfering with each other rather than co-operating.
Consumer kit gives you a flashing light and a guess. Without a controller showing every access point and device, diagnosing a fault is guesswork.
The problems that matter appear under load, which is exactly when nobody has time to investigate them.
Why Synergy Max
What we do
The survey is the part that matters. Everything after it is installation.
Common questions
Yes, and it is usually where the biggest improvement is. One controller shows every access point and every connected device across all your locations, so diagnosing a problem at one site does not mean driving to it. It also means the same standard of coverage everywhere rather than whatever each site happened to buy.
It depends on the building far more than the floor area, which is why anybody quoting from square footage alone is guessing. A steel-framed or masonry building can need several times what an equivalent modern open plan office needs. That is exactly what the survey establishes.
Yes, and you should. VLANs put guests on a completely separate logical network so they cannot see your files, your cameras or your payment systems. PPSK means different groups get their own keys, so revoking one does not mean changing the password for everybody.
We monitor it, which means more often than not we see a problem before you report one. You also get one controller showing every access point and every connected device, so when something does go wrong it gets diagnosed rather than guessed at and rebooted.
Not necessarily, and it is worth testing before you spend. If a wired speed test at the router is good and the wireless one at the far end of the building is not, the network is the problem and a faster line will change nothing. We check that before recommending anything.
The rest of what we look after for businesses across Wigan.
Ask us
Send this and a real person will reply. No call centre, no obligation, and we will tell you honestly if we are not the right fit.
Tell us where the Wi-Fi drops out and what the building is like when it is busy. We will survey it, design coverage around how you actually use the space, and install something that works everywhere it needs to.
