Articles & guides
Ten in-depth guides on WiFi, broadband, phone wiring and data cabling — written from the back of the van. Read what you need, ring when you're ready.
Outbuildings
From a converted shed at the end of a Hackney garden to a 12-metre architect's studio in Belsize Park — getting WiFi out to an outbuilding has a right way and several wrong ones.
Town houses
Four floors, thick Victorian walls, basement kitchen, loft conversion. The town-house pattern is the same in Islington, Kensington and Camberwell — and one router on the hall radiator never quite hacks it.
Large properties
Twelve-bedroom Hampstead houses, Knightsbridge mansions, country-style estates inside the M25. When a property is big enough that one router covers one room, you need a proper structured network.
Apartments
Edwardian mansion blocks, ex-council flats, conversion flats, new-build studios in the Nine Elms towers. London apartments have specific WiFi problems — and specific fixes.
Signal loss
WiFi at 5 GHz loses a lot of signal through a brick wall. Through a wall with foil-backed insulation, it loses almost everything. Here's the practical version of WiFi physics for anyone with a dead spot upstairs.
Boosters
Half of London's WiFi extenders are unplugged in a cupboard within a year. There's a reason — and it's not because you bought the wrong brand. The physics are against the device by design.
Diagnostic
A heat-map survey is the difference between ‘buy three random WiFi extenders and see what happens’ and a fix that lasts. Here's what one actually involves, what it shows, and when you need one.
Tech compare
Mesh is the easy option. Wired access points are the right option for most London houses. Here's the trade-off explained in plain English, with the wiring detail your retail shop doesn't want to tell you about.
Standards
WiFi 6 is the current standard. WiFi 6E adds the 6 GHz band. WiFi 7 is coming. Here's what each actually means for a real flat, real walls and real devices — without the marketing.
Field notes
From the upstairs dead spot in a Tooting terrace to the conference-room blackspot in a Soho creative agency — the same handful of WiFi problems comes up everywhere. Here's the list, with the fix for each.
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