Best WIFI for new build

kat2171

Hi all
New house almost completed and we haven't tackled how to get WIFI yet. Currently have WIFI with SKY. No telephone lines to new house currently though house is wired for one. Other houses within 250m with phone line. Any advice? Want good quality WIFI. Do we need a phone line? How long will this take? Thanks

Eric Cartman

kat2171 wrote: »

Hi all
New house almost completed and we haven't tackled how to get WIFI yet. Currently have WIFI with SKY. No telephone lines to new house currently though house is wired for one. Other houses within 250m with phone line. Any advice? Want good quality WIFI. Do we need a phone line? How long will this take? Thanks

How big is the house ? how many storey's ?

also what part of the country is it in ? get phone lines and 2 power sockets wired to a cupboard under the stairs or to utility room and get cat.6 wired to the ceiling in the hall on the lower and upper floors (if 2 storey) or to points towards either end of the house (for bungalow) then get 2 really good access points wired back to the utility room / and have whoever your providers modem back there.

on the ceilings you mount access points that blend in such as this :


and you'll have reliable wifi all over the house.

syklops

Want good quality WIFI. Do we need a phone line?

When you say you want good quality wifi, do you actually mean you want good quality broadband?

If you want broadband you will need to get it into the house somehow. Where in the country you are will determine this. You might be able to get wireless broadband if you are in a very rural area - not to be confused with WiFi by the way. WiFi is the delivery of broadband through out your house. Wireless Broadband is a way of getting broadband into your house.

For getting good quality Wifi through out the house, the size and layout of the house is a factor in determining the best places to install a wireless router and or repeaters if necessary.

Final piece of advice, wireless routers should be in accessible places because sometimes they need to be rebooted or updated. I had a client ring me up one day, had just finished his house build and had installed the router under the floor boards on the ground floor. Aside from it being about the worst location in the house for the router, he was very annoyed when he had to pull up the floorboards to retrieve the router.

galwaytt

Btw, a lot of modern new houses, with foil-backed plasterboard, or foil-covered insulation, are very poor at internal radio signals generally. Everything from radio, to TV, to WiFi - and yes I also have Wireless Broadband - and mobile phone signals are suffering from the 'faraday cage' of a house we've built !