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Why I Finally Ditched My Old Router After a 3 Hour Outage at My Coffee Shop
Two Tuesdays ago my card reader went dead around 10am and I lost about $240 in sales because my 6 year old router gave out. I sat on the floor by the register for an hour rebooting it, then finally called a local guy named Dave who set me up with a leased line and a backup. I always thought business fiber was overkill for a spot my size, but watching customers walk out made me change my mind fast. If you run a small store, what kind of backup setup do you keep for when the main connection drops?
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holly_henderson864d ago
Ever try running a shop where the wifi dies right when a group of 5 walks in? That was me last month, not a full outage but the signal kept dropping every 10 minutes. I ended up using my phone as a hotspot for two hours and burned through half my data. The scary part was my card reader kept trying to reconnect to the dead router instead of the hotspot, so I had to manually switch it each time. Now I just leave a cheap prepaid sim in an old phone as my backup. It's not fancy but it beats losing sales while you mess with cables.
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