There are many many more devices connected at work than at home.
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Chances are that you have dedicated IT-staff and equipment at work, while at home you have just youtself and some cheap all in one device that does the work done by a dozen different expensive devices at work.
In most businesses above a certain size WiFi is provided not by the same sort of thing you have at home, but by a dedicated device with only one job: to turn wired LAN into wireless LAN.
In fact unless you have a real small office, there will not just be one such “Access Point” device, but several to provide better overage. If the It team that set them up had enough budget these devices may in fact be places in such a way to have a certain amount of overlap in their coverage so that some service will still remain even when one device stops working for some reason.
Also the people managing It should have set things up so that if there is a sign that something stopped working the way it should, somebody will get notified to fix it hopefully before any users notice.
By contrast the thing you have at home is usually only one small cheap device. If it stops working that will be it and the only dedicated person to notice and fix problems with it is likely going to be yourself.
So instead of several redundant, we’ll managed devices you have one device.
And this device is not some expensive peace of reliable hardware, it is some cheap device that is also forced to do a ton of other jobs: it will be a router, a switch, a DNS server and DHCP server, a firewall and several other functions that in your office hopefully each have their own dedicated box.
This is okay though because at home the worst that could happen is that you may need to turn it off and on again and the only one to be mildly incovneicned by that is yourself and whatever family also uses it.
-In the office actual money is depends on the WiFi keeping working, so more money can justifiably bee spent on it.
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