The wifi is the one part we cannot do for you.

We spent eight years on the other side of it. When ten scanners come back from the far end of the racking having dropped their association, somebody has to know whether that is the devices, the network or the building. Between 2011 and 2018 we put 178 access points and 22 controllers into Australian warehouses, offices and cold stores. We designed them, configured them, tested them and invoiced them.

We do not sell wireless networks any more, and this page is not an offer to build you one. It is here because of what it left behind.

What was actually installed

Three generations of hardware, seven years apart.

Not one product and then a stop. The line moved and we moved with it, which is a different thing from having done a job once.

AP650

95 units, 2011 to 2015. Seventy-eight of them the external-antenna model, the one you use when the radio has to live in a box and the antennas do not.

AP-6521 and AP-6532

31 units, 2014 to 2016. The generation that followed, including twelve supplied with the enclosure as a single part number.

AP-7532

37 units, 2016 to 2018. The last of them. Twenty-four internal antenna, thirteen external, across six sites.

Behind them, 22 controllers — RFS4000 and RFS6000 wireless switches — plus the port-upgrade licences, the rack trays, the PoE injectors for sites with no powered switching, and on the larger jobs fibre transceivers to get between buildings.

One job, in the detail that proves it happened

Sixteen of them went up in sealed boxes.

A packaging plant, April 2012. The invoice has two labour lines on it because it was two jobs on one site.

The warehouse

Sixteen access points, sixteen sealed IP enclosures, 270 × 270 × 170mm. Not for weather. For rats, for dust, and for the roof leak nobody knows about yet.

They are mounted high enough that reaching one means hiring a scissor lift. You design for the day you cannot get to it.

The office

Eight more, dual radio with internal antennas, because an office ceiling is not a hostile environment and does not need a box.

Two RFS6000 switches ran both, with a three-year extended warranty on each because the site could not be without them.

Three years later

They came back for twenty-four more.

That is the only review of a network that means anything. The first lot was still working, and the business that had lived with it for three years chose to do it again rather than ask somebody else.

The cabling and the physical installation on the bigger sites were done by Southern Rework in Victoria, who were very good at it. The design, the configuration, the testing and the single invoice were ours. One number to ring when it did not work.

And this is the part that matters now

Half of them are still buying from us.

Of the 31 businesses we built a network for, fifteen went on to buy scanners as well. The median relationship among those fifteen is ten years, and six of them have bought something in the last two years.

Sixteen years

The longest of them. Seventy-three invoices between 2010 and this year, through the network, the scanners that ran on it, and the consumables since.

163 invoices

The busiest. A manufacturer who started in 2010 and was still ordering in 2024.

The one we can name

Australian Wholesale Meats — access points in 2016, and five MC9400s across 2025 and 2026. Twenty-nine invoices, eleven years.

Named because Bonny read that page and approved it before it went up. Nobody else on this page is named, and nobody will be without asking.

The scanners that ran on those networks

725 mobile computers, and counting.

The wireless stopped in 2018. The thing it was built to carry did not.

MC3xxx — 370

MC3100 135, MC3200 11, MC3300 204, and 20 MC3400s this year. Ninety invoices between 2010 and 2026.

MC9xxx — 355

MC9100 154, MC9200 141, MC9300 60. A hundred and fourteen invoices between 2011 and 2025.

Still the same shelf

The MC3400 and the MC9400 are the current models of the two families on this page. We sell them now for the same reason we sold the ones before them.

We have not sold a wireless network since 2018, and we are not going to sell you one. There is nothing in the market today we would stand behind the way we stood behind that gear, and selling something we are not sure of is how you lose a customer you have had for twenty years.

If you need a warehouse network designed, you want somebody who does it every week. That is not us any more and we will say so on the phone.

What we will do is tell you the truth about your coverage before you buy ten scanners. Your wifi goes in on site, on the day, by your people or your IT provider — it is the one part of a rollout that cannot be done from here. When it does not work at the far end of the racking, the question is whether that is the device, the access point placement or the stock itself absorbing the signal. We have stood under enough of those ceilings to know the difference, and we will not sell you hardware to fix a problem that hardware will not fix.

Where to from here

If you are putting scanners into a warehouse.

The current fleet

Zebra Android computers — what we sell today, with prices.

Try before you commit

Hire one for a week and walk it to the far end of the racking yourself. That is the honest coverage test and it costs a week's hire.

Or just ring

0414 53 53 95. Describe the building. Thirty-five years of this and we have probably stood in one like it.