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How safe is the Wi-Fi in your cafe?
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21 plain-English questions about the Wi-Fi your guests use. You get a score out of 100, the gaps ranked in the order we would fix them, and the fix for every single one. No jargon, and nothing you need to log into.
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Cafe Wi-Fi Safety Check
Answer what you know and skip what you do not. Anything you are unsure about comes back as something to go and check, which is useful on its own.
Section 1 of 7
Getting on
How guests get on, and who else can.
Why it matters, and the fix
Why it matters. A password on the wall is a password everyone has, including people who will never buy a coffee. Once it is on the wall it ends up in the apps that collect and share cafe passwords.
The fix, and it takes a managed network. Take it off the wall today and have staff give it out. A captive portal, the sign-in page where each guest joins on their own, gets rid of the shared password completely. A basic router cannot do that. It takes a managed network.
Why it matters, and the fix
Why it matters. Everyone who has ever worked here still has it, and so does everyone they gave it to.
The fix, and you can do it today. Change it today. Then put a reminder on the calendar to change it every three months.
Why it matters, and the fix
Why it matters. A network that works at 2am is serving people who are not customers, and anything they do on it traces back to your internet account.
The fix, and you can do it today. Most routers can run Wi-Fi on a schedule. Set it to turn off an hour after close.
What happens next
Half of this list is yours to fix. The other half needs a real network.
Changing the router password, turning off WPS, switching on guest isolation, putting the Wi-Fi on a schedule: those are afternoon jobs, and the check tells you how. The rest of it, the sign-in page, the terms guests accept, the record of who connected and when, cannot be done on the router your internet provider handed you. It has nowhere to put a sign-in page and it keeps no records.
That is the half Barista WiFi was built around, and it ships to you already set up.
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