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Networks

Retail Wi-Fi & POS Network

A reliable Wi-Fi and point-of-sale network for a busy café — built to survive rush hour, guest traffic and card terminals without a hiccup.

Harbourfront Café Group Nepean, ON 2024 1 week
The café network — a central router feeding card terminals, staff laptops and guest devices

The challenge

A popular waterfront café with a steady stream of customers — and a network that couldn't keep up. Card terminals dropped during lunch rush, staff tablets lost orders and the guest Wi-Fi shared the same connection as the registers. When the internet wobbled, the café effectively couldn't take money.

Our approach

We rebuilt the network with one rule: payment always wins. Card terminals and staff devices moved to their own network segment with guaranteed priority, while a separate guest Wi-Fi handles customer traffic with its own bandwidth limits. New access points cover the front counter, kitchen and patio, and a simple router setup gives the owner a failover connection so an ISP outage doesn't mean a closed till.

The result

Transactions that go through first try, every time — even at peak. Guests stay connected longer, staff tablets stay responsive and the owner stopped dreading lunch hour.

0
Failed card transactions since cutover
3
Networks, cleanly separated
7 days
From survey to handover

What we delivered

  • Priority POS networkCard terminals and staff devices that never compete with guests.
  • Guest Wi-FiFast customer access, isolated from business systems.
  • Full-coverage access pointsCounter, kitchen and patio — no dead zones.
  • Failover internetA backup connection so the till never goes down.

Does your business run on Wi-Fi?

If payments, orders or staff devices depend on your network, it deserves the same treatment.