Your Wi-Fi SSID is your Wi-Fi network name. Customising it tells everyone you’re the generous business providing a Wi-Fi connection. Here are two tricks that will get your Wi-Fi hotspot noticed.

A Wi-Fi Nerd’s Tips to Getting Your Wi-Fi Hotspot Noticed for Free

1. Change your Wi-Fi name (SSID) to your business name. For example “Juan’s Taqueria Wi-Fi”. Juan’s Wi-Fi users now know that Juan does great tacos as well as fast Wi-Fi. It sounds simple but a lot of businesses never get around to it.

2. _Put an underscore at the beginning of your Wi-Fi name. This will push your Wi-Fi network to the top of everyone’s list of available Wi-Fi networks.

For example:

_PolkaSpots Supafly Wi-Fi
_Pretty Fly 4 a Wi-Fi

For Wi-Fi naming inspiration check out some funny SSID’s here…

To change your PolkaSpots Wi-Fi hotspot SSID log into your cloud based Wi-Fi hotspot account here…

Because PolkaSpots is a cloud based Wi-Fi hotspot solution you can change your SSID from anywhere in the world at any time. You’ll find your network name settings in the “Network” tab.

This is Sin after a lot of free espressos during PolkaSpots Wi-Fi’s trip to the London Coffee Festival.

Those cafes take coffee to a new level – someone gave us coffee caviar. Bizarre!

A big thanks to everyone we met.

Today two lovely east London cafes agreed to tie the knot with PolkaSpots Wi-Fi. Vowing to have and to hold their managed Wi-Fi hotspot solution in sickness and in health from this day forward.

In entering a civil partnership with PolkaSpots Wi-Fi, they got a free Wi-Fi access point and Wi-Fi management account to use and review.

You can visit the new Wi-Fi hotspots here, and here…

If you’re an east London business who’d like to review the new Wi-Fi hotspot management system – get in touch. You can sign up for a cloud based account here…

Look out for more PolkaSpots Wi-Fi hotspots around east London coming soon.

Watch out – they’re coming…

East London Wi-Fi hotspots for cafes, bars and east London businesses.

Next week is UK Coffee Week!

All week cafes will be fundraising for clean water projects in Africa. You’ll have the option to add 5p to your coffee flavoured purchase at participating cafes.

So buy lots of coffee! Next week why not leave the office, buy a coffee (or two) and work from your local cafe for an hour. You’ll be doing a little something for a very good cause.

The Polka team will be visiting EC1 Wi-Fi cafes to work, but UK Coffee Week (as the name suggests) is nationwide.

Find your local participating cafe here…

Top of the list is connecting your customers to the Internet – obvs.

But once everyone’s online, what’s your cloud managed Wi-Fi account for? Today we talk about setting a Wi-Fi hotspot speed limit to improve your Wi-Fi service.

How to set a Wi-Fi hotspot speed limit & why it’s worth it…

Sharing your Wi-Fi with your guests is easy. But once they’re all connected to your hotspot lots of users can slow your Wi-Fi down.

Creating a Wi-Fi speed limit per user (or managing your bandwidth as the geeks call it) regulates your broadband so more people can connect and still receive a good Wi-Fi service.

This keeps your Wi-Fi fast and your hotspot busy.

To edit your Wi-Fi speed limit click here…

If you’re brand new to PolkaSpots you can set up a Cucumber Tony Wi-Fi account and manage your broadband bandwidth here…

For instructions on how to change your Wi-Fi speed limit go here…

The cool kids keep talking about putting stuff in the Cloud. Please try and ignore their turtle necks and NHS glasses for a moment, because a cloud managed Wi-Fi service is useful for everyone – not just the geeks.

Your Wi-Fi service is the bit that turns your everyday router into a clever Wi-Fi access point that you can control.

In the old days – most of the information to manage your Wi-Fi service was stored in your Wi-Fi router. This meant there wasn’t much room to do anything clever with your Wi-Fi.

With cloud based Wi-Fi, your Wi-Fi access point looks up to the cloud to get the information it needs. It’s a leaner, meaner, more reliable way of managing your Wi-Fi hotspot.

When you sign up to the PolkaSpots service you’ll have access to a cloud based dashboard (like a website) where you can customise your Wi-Fi settings.

Because your Wi-Fi service is in the cloud, you can change your Wi-Fi settings from anywhere in the world. Just log onto the management website. You’ll see all your Wi-Fi access points working away. If something goes wrong you’ll be able to see which wireless access point is causing trouble and fix it quick.

And, there’s now room to do fancy stuff – like design login pages and restrict Wi-Fi users. All from your Wi-Fi cloud.

A cloud managed Wi-Fi service puts you in control of your Wi-Fi hotspot. You choose how to moderate guest access, not your Wi-Fi provider or your users. It’s your Wi-Fi connection after all.