Yes, of course it was. Anything with a network port was plugged into the lan, which was plugged into the free router that came with the business broadband pack

Yes, of course it was. Anything with a network port was plugged into the lan, which was plugged into the free router that came with the business broadband package. Which was also the only firewall and it was still on factory defaults other than the wireless password. As far as I can tell this is more or less standard business practice in the small to medium enterprise sector here, which is to say, the vast majority of specialist engineering companies in the UK.