r/wireless

Hello everyone,
I did my btech in electronics and communications and my masters was in wireless communications networks. I completed my masters in 2016 but haven’t worked since. I don’t remember any of what I studied back then but I still have the degrees. I want to get back into the job market so are there any suggestions for which courses should I learn and which companies should I target?

For those who have built independent networking or wireless consulting practices, what were the biggest lessons you learned early on that you didn’t expect?

My background is primarily in enterprise Wi-Fi design, troubleshooting, validation, and wireless architecture work. I’m starting to formalize consulting offerings around assessments, remediation, predictive design, validation, and modernization advisory.

I’m less interested in “how to get rich consulting” advice and more interested in operational realities:
- Packaging services
- Defining scope
- Handling client expectations
- Pricing structure evolution
- Finding the right types of customers
- Avoiding scope creep
- Building repeatable processes

Would especially appreciate insight from people serving SMB/mid-market clients rather than huge enterprise accounts.

Switched to Vodafone 500Mbps fibre and speed tests are perfect, but on all devices (phones + laptops) websites seem to “pause” for a second before they start loading. Once they load, speeds are fast.

I’ve already tried changing DNS to Cloudflare and Google DNS, and it happens on both 5GHz and 2.4GHz WiFi bands. Never had this issue on TalkTalk with the same devices.

Any ideas what could cause this? Maybe Vodafone router/DNS/routing issue?