How we solved our office Wi-Fi problems
&gt;Assign static IPs for infrastructure like access points. This makes them easy to reach when reconfiguration is needed<p>Am I missing something, or did they buy consumer routers to use as access points?<p>Triplebyte, I can save you a ton of management, troubleshooting, and learning time: switch to Ubiquiti Unifi or an equivelant now, youll have one pane of glass to reconfigure every device.  The devices will talk to each other, to help hand off clients between them.  All channel management will be by the devices working together, they can throttle down power if they are causing each other interference.  I cant even begin to list all the different benefits with a single set of settings vs devices that dont work together.  Even an asus aimesh network would likely be better.  Youre asking for a troubleshooting nightmare.<p>You can either pay a couple hundred a year for the management interface, or $80 for an on prem tiny little stick that hosts it. (paying for the cloud hosted one, has its benefits, and is my recommendation.)<p>Access Point - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unifi-hd.ubnt.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unifi-hd.ubnt.com&#x2F;</a><p>POE Switch - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ubnt.com&#x2F;unifi-switching&#x2F;unifi-switch-poe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ubnt.com&#x2F;unifi-switching&#x2F;unifi-switch-poe&#x2F;</a><p>Management Interface - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ubnt.com&#x2F;unifi&#x2F;unifi-cloud-key&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ubnt.com&#x2F;unifi&#x2F;unifi-cloud-key&#x2F;</a> OR Cloud Management <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unifi.ubnt.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unifi.ubnt.com&#x2F;</a><p>Router - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ubnt.com&#x2F;unifi-routing&#x2F;usg&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ubnt.com&#x2F;unifi-routing&#x2F;usg&#x2F;</a><p>You should never need to track down or log into individual devices to configure them.<p>I dont mean to be a complete ballsack, but isnt it weird for a company thats mission is matching talent to problems, to fail to find the talent to adequately address their problem, and to be giving authoritative (mis)advice on something they are not remotely domain experts in.  It doesnt seem like the best advertisement.<p>That said, this is the KIND of post companies should be making when their seo expert says to use keywords.  Good job writing about improving the internals of your company, and not just what your company does. Write a V2 of this post once you upgrade, and rename the old one, &quot;How we Created (and then mitigated a Device Management and Troubleshooting Nightmare)