Warehouse & site Wi-Fi
Coverage across a large unit is a design problem, not a matter of adding another access point and hoping.
- Wi-Fi coverage planning
- Firewalls & switches
- On-site install £855/day
IT support in Barking
From the town centre to Barking Riverside, supported by a team in the same borough about three miles away.
A town centre and a riverside, with different needs
Barking splits neatly into two IT problems. The town centre, around East Street, Vicarage Field and the station, is small professional and retail businesses in older buildings, often with inherited cabling and a broadband line that was specified years ago. Down towards the river, the Abbey Road and Creekmouth industrial areas are logistics, distribution, food production and light manufacturing, where the priority is uptime, connectivity across a large site, and equipment that has to keep running.
Barking Riverside is a third case again. It is one of the largest regeneration projects in London, with its own Overground station since 2022 and thousands of new homes and commercial units still arriving. New premises mean IT decisions made from scratch. That is the cheapest possible moment to get network design, Wi-Fi coverage and connectivity right.
We are in the same borough, based in Dagenham about three miles east, so on-site attendance across IG11 is straightforward.
Uptime for operations
When picking, dispatch or production depends on a system, downtime is measured in lost hours rather than inconvenience.
- 24/7 monitoring & alerting
- Server management £162/mo
- One-hour target on Complete
New premises fit-out
Cabling, network design and connectivity specified properly before you move in, not retrofitted afterwards.
- Structured cabling advice
- Connectivity specification
- Staged, reversible migration
Small office essentials
For town-centre businesses: managed devices, Microsoft 365, backup and security without an in-house IT person.
- From £50 per user/month
- Unlimited helpdesk
- Managed backup from £77
Covering IG11
Barking is exceptionally well connected. District, Hammersmith & City, c2c and London Overground all serve the station, with Barking Riverside on the Overground extension. For us the relevant route is usually the A13 or the A124, and we are about three miles away in Dagenham.
Because we sit in the same borough, we see the same local pattern repeatedly: businesses that have grown out of a broadband connection and a consumer-grade router, and are now running cloud applications, card payments and remote access over it. That is normally the first thing worth fixing, and it is rarely expensive.
What we do for Barking businesses
Talk to us about Barking
Alpha IT Solutions Ltd
Tallow Close, Dagenham, London, RM9 6EF
Phone: 020 3411 1886
Email: info@alphaitsolutions.uk
Office hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm
Tell us what you are running and we will come back within one business day with a free, no-obligation IT health check. Our full rate card is on the pricing page. We publish it so you can rule us in or out before you pick up the phone.
Frequently asked questions
Do you cover Barking Riverside?+
Yes. Barking Riverside, Creekmouth, the Abbey Road industrial area and Barking town centre are all within our normal on-site coverage. We are in Dagenham, about three miles away.
We are moving into a new unit. When should we involve you?+
As early as possible, ideally before fit-out. Cabling routes, comms cabinet position, Wi-Fi coverage and the connectivity order all have long lead times and are far cheaper to get right first time.
Can you cover Wi-Fi across a whole warehouse?+
Yes. That is a survey and design job rather than a matter of adding access points. Building materials, racking layout and interference all affect it. On-site installation work is £855 per day.
Our internet keeps dropping. Is that something you handle?+
Yes. We will establish whether it is the line, the router, the internal network or contention, and tell you honestly which. Often it turns out to be consumer-grade equipment doing a business job.
Do you offer out-of-hours support for shift operations?+
24/7 out-of-hours support is included on the Complete tier at £108 per user per month. Outside a plan, out-of-hours call-outs are £167 per hour with a two-hour minimum.
Other areas we cover
IT support in Barking, done properly
Free, no-obligation IT health check. We'll tell you what's actually wrong and what it costs to fix.