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Paul Kirby

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Paul Kirby

Systems engineer. I find the fault that five reboots didn't fix.

Owner & Lead Technician at Berkshire IT Services — fully mobile IT support across Berkshire, UK. No workshop, no ticket queue, just one engineer who turns up (or screenshares) and fixes it properly.


What I'm working on

  • 🔧 Berkshire IT Services — on-site & remote support for homes and small businesses. Computer repair, malware removal, Wi-Fi dead-zone hunts, data recovery, new-PC setup.
  • 📡 residential-network-diagnostics (coming soon) — open-source scripts for diagnosing flaky home broadband: bufferbloat, channel congestion, DHCP weirdness. The toolkit I actually use on call-outs.
  • 🧰 BITS internal tooling — the worker scripts, checklists and automation that keep a one-person IT business running like a ten-person one.

How I work

🗺️ Patch Ascot · Bracknell · Windsor · Maidenhead · Wokingham & surrounding Berkshire
🖥️ Platforms Windows, macOS, Linux — plus the routers, NAS boxes and printers in between
📶 Speciality Network diagnostics: if the Wi-Fi "just drops sometimes", that's my favourite kind of job
🗣️ Approach Plain English, fixed quotes, no jargon, no upsell

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Find me

  • 🌐 berkshireitservices.co.uk
  • 📞 (01344) 935008
  • 📍 Ascot, Berkshire, UK

Most of my commits fix computers. Some of them fix the computers that fix computers.

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Berkshire IT Services
Ascot, UK
Member since July 28, 2026

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