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Job-site trailers that stop dropping off the network at 7am

A general contractor in Castle Rock ran its site trailers on consumer hotspots. We went on site, rebuilt the connections and split the office network, and we've looked after both since.

This shows the kind of work we do. It is not a client engagement, and the business in it is invented.

Where it started

The problem

The trailers ran on consumer hotspots and a shared password that had lived on a whiteboard since 2023. Every morning at seven, when the crews arrived and twenty phones joined at once, the plan viewer stalled and the supers went back to paper sets.

The office wasn't much better. One flat network held the plotter, the owner's laptop, the accounting PC and the guest Wi-Fi.

What changed

What we did

We drove down and walked every trailer. Each one got a cellular router on two carriers and a small firewall, so when one signal sags at a remote site the other carries on and nobody has to touch anything.

Crews' phones go on their own network, apart from the tablets that open drawings. The tablets get priority. A stalled drawing costs a crew an hour; a stalled video costs nobody anything.

Back at the office, the accounting PC sits on its own segment behind rules that let it reach the bank and the bookkeeping software and very little else.

It's a recurring engagement now. We watch the links remotely and come out when a new trailer opens, usually the same week.

Built with

  • Peplink
  • FortiGate
  • Ubiquiti UniFi
  • Bluebeam

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