Network

There is no such thing as wireless. Until electricity can be delivered through the air without side effects, everything in the house still has a cable somewhere. The trick is to put the cable where you never see it and let the wireless do only what it is good at.

Wi-Fi is like sound

A single Wi-Fi router is a single speaker turned up loud enough to reach the far bedroom: distorted for the people close to it and still faint at the back. A well-designed home is a day spa, with soft music from many small speakers, and you always hear the closest one. The difficult part is convincing a phone to let go of the far speaker and jump to the near one. A managed controller does exactly that, so every device is always on the best connection and hands over seamlessly as you walk through the house.

Why not a consumer mesh kit?

You pay for decent internet, and there is still that one corner where the film buffers and the WhatsApp call drops. Consumer mesh kits and range extenders plug holes in coverage; they were never designed for speed, for a house this size or for a family with forty connected devices. We install the same business-grade managed network hardware we use for our commercial clients, because a home has become a small business in everything except the name.

• A software controller is the brain of the network and configures every device from one screen
• It adapts automatically when a neighbour’s Wi-Fi interferes with yours
• A guest network for visitors, and fair limits for the devices that eat data
• Regular firmware updates, pushed to every device, so the system keeps evolving
• Cameras, sound, streaming, the gate and the alarm all live on the same tidy backbone

You are not investing in a once-off box. You are investing in a system that keeps improving for as long as you own the house.