Wi-Fi & Networking, done properly.
We design and install proper, business-grade networks using Ubiquiti UniFi — the same kit running in offices, hotels and stadiums, sized sensibly for homes and small businesses.
If your house is over 200 m², mesh isn't going to cut it.
We've seen it dozens of times: a consumer mesh kit in a 300 m² Edwardian, a powerline adapter for the loft, a booster plugged in by the back door — and the WiFi still drops out in the same three rooms it always did. There are real, fixable reasons that happens.
Why consumer kit fails in big houses
- Wireless backhaul halves your bandwidth, every hop. Mesh nodes use the same radios to talk to each other and to your devices. Each hop between nodes costs ~50% throughput. By the third node you're back on dial-up speeds.
- Walls absorb signal, and old houses have lots of them. Lath-and-plaster, brick chimneys, foil-backed insulation, copper pipes, cast-iron radiators — every one of them eats RF. No consumer AP punches through them, no matter what the box says.
- Powerline adapters fight the noise on your ring main. Dimmer switches, EV chargers, fridges and old wiring all dump noise onto the same cabling powerline kit relies on. It works on a clean test rig and falls over in real homes.
- You can't see what's wrong. The "everything's fine" light on the front of the router is meaningless. Without a real dashboard you can't diagnose congestion, channel overlap, or which AP a device is actually connected to — so you reboot and hope.
What we do instead
- Multiple wired access points, sited from a thorough on-site survey of your property — not guessed at from the size of the box.
- Cat6 to every AP, so each one runs at full speed without stealing airtime from your devices.
- PoE switching — power and data down the same cable, so no plug socket is needed at every AP location.
- One managed dashboard, so when something does misbehave you can actually see it and fix it — no rebooting routers in the dark.
- VLANs for IoT & guests, so the smart fridge and the visiting kids aren't sitting on the same network as your work laptop.
A typical large home install covers 7+ access points, distribution switching and structured cabling. Site survey first, fixed-price quote second — no surprises, no day rates.
Why UniFi
UniFi gives you one dashboard for your Wi-Fi, switching, routing and (optionally) CCTV. It's reliable, repairable, and you actually own your network — no monthly cloud subscription holding it hostage.
What we typically install
- Cloud Gateway — your router, firewall and dashboard, all in one neat box.
- Wi-Fi access points — modern Wi-Fi 6 or 6E units, mounted where they actually do their job, not just stuck near the router.
- Network switches — managed switches that power your cameras and access points down the same Ethernet cable, so you don't need a plug socket at every mount.
- Structured cabling — Cat6 runs to every access point and camera, neatly terminated and labelled in a tidy comms cupboard.
- UniFi Protect (optional) — CCTV that records to a box in your house. No monthly cloud subscription, footage stays on your kit.
AI where it actually helps the network
The UniFi platform now leans on AI for a handful of jobs that used to need someone staring at graphs. We turn it on for the bits that earn their keep, and ignore the rest.
- Traffic intelligence & anomaly detection — when a device starts behaving differently (the smart plug suddenly streams 100 MB/hour to an unknown host), the dashboard flags it before it becomes a problem.
- Application-aware traffic shaping — work video calls and live TV get prioritised over background updates and torrents, automatically. You don't have to know which is which.
- RF environment learning — access points adjust channels and power based on what they actually see in your building over time, not just from a one-shot survey on install day.
- Smarter dashboards — when something does go wrong, the controller surfaces what changed and where to look first, so we (and you) aren't digging through raw logs.
A typical engagement
Site survey
We walk the property top-to-bottom to find dead-spots, plan cable routes, and pick the right spots for access points and cameras — measuring signal strength room-by-room so we're not guessing.
Fixed-price proposal
A written quote covering hardware, cabling, labour and timeline. No surprise add-ons later.
Install day
Most homes take one or two days. We tidy as we go and dust-sheet anything that needs it.
Handover
You get plain-English documentation, a network diagram, and your admin logins. From there, an optional care plan keeps an eye on things.
Custom mounts, made in-house
Older properties rarely give you a flat, square wall to mount things on. When the off-the-shelf bracket doesn't fit, we design and 3D print custom mounts, brackets and cable-tidy parts ourselves — small things that make a big difference to how the finished install looks.
What we'll never do
- Sell you consumer mesh kit dressed up as "professional".
- Lock you into a proprietary controller you can't access.
- Disappear after the install and stop returning emails.
Local engineer, on the doorstep.
Based in Marlow — we work across Marlow, Maidenhead, Henley-on-Thames, Beaconsfield, Bourne End, Cookham and High Wycombe, and the rest of the Thames Valley by arrangement. See where we work.