Home service
Whole home wireless design and installation
Nothing bought yet, or replacing what is there. We measure the house, name the exact equipment and where each piece goes, you buy it, and we install and configure it. Typically three to six access points for a large or awkward house. We use the wiring your house already has and reach detached buildings with a point to point link. Priced after the survey, never before it.
Today: one router in a downstairs closet
Designed: five access points
$600 to $1,500 for most houses, not including the equipment itself, which you buy and own, and any new cable, which is subcontracted and quoted separately.
That range is the design and the installation labor for a typical house of three to six access points. Larger properties, outbuildings and point to point links go past it. There is no single number until somebody has measured, because what it costs turns on how many access points the house needs, whether they go on a shelf or into a ceiling, whether there is wiring worth using, and whether anything detached has to be reached. The path is the same every time: a free consult, then a measured survey, then a written estimate naming the equipment and where each piece goes. The survey fee comes off that installation, and nobody is asked to commit to the work to get the estimate.
The honest version of this pitch: if you live in a 1,800 sq ft single story house, the equipment your internet provider handed you is probably fine and we will tell you so. Large homes, two and three story homes, block construction, long lots, and detached buildings are a different engineering problem, and solving it is what gets a household connected in every room it actually uses.
We do wireless, and pulling cable is a different trade. When a house genuinely needs new runs we work out exactly where they have to land, bring in the contractor who does that part, and check the work against the design before the wireless is commissioned. You are not handed a list of numbers to call.
What is included
- Access point count and placement taken from the site survey
- Use of any wiring the house already has, since most newer homes have more of it than the owner realizes
- Deliberate mesh where there is no wiring, placed so the relay hop costs you as little as possible
- Point to point links to reach a detached garage, workshop, or casita without a trench
- A single network name that follows you through the house without dropping the call
- Separate networks for guests and for smart home devices
- Configuration you own, on equipment you own
What moves the price
- Number of access points, which follows square footage, floors, and construction
- Whether the house already has usable network wiring, which decides how much has to go over the air
- Outbuildings, pool areas, and detached garages, which usually means a point to point link
- Whether the existing internet service and router need replacing too
- Any new cable, which is subcontracted and quoted separately so you can see what it costs
The number comes from the survey, once somebody has measured the building. We do not publish one here because it would be wrong for most houses.
Questions people actually ask
How is this different from DIY assist?
One question separates them: have you already bought the equipment? If you have, that is DIY assist, and it has a flat price because the job is placing and configuring what you own. If you have not, this is the one you want. We measure first, then name exactly what to buy and where each piece goes, and you buy it. That design step is also why the survey fee comes off this and not off a setup visit: there is nothing to design when the equipment was chosen before you called.
How many access points does a large house actually need?
As a rough starting point, one access point per 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft of living space on each floor, adjusted heavily for construction. A 4,000 sq ft two story frame house often lands at three. The same square footage in block with foil backed insulation can need five. The survey is what turns that range into a number.
Is mesh good enough, or do I need wires?
Wireless mesh costs you roughly half your throughput at every hop, because the access point talks to your device and to the next access point over the same radio. That is a real cost, and it is why we use any wiring your house already has before we mesh anything. Where there is no wiring, mesh done deliberately, with the units placed from measurement, is usually enough for a house. Where it is not, new cable is the answer and we bring in a contractor to pull it rather than pretending we do that work.
We are on Starlink, a fixed wireless tower or a cellular connection rather than cable. Does the design change?
Not in any way that matters. Whatever brings the internet onto the property hands it to a router, and from there the problem is the same physics it always is: walls, distance and how far the signal has to travel. The design is about the building, not about the service. What does change is where the connection arrives. A dish or an antenna goes where it has sky or line of sight, which is often an outbuilding or the far corner of the roof rather than the middle of the house, so the layout is built around that rather than the other way round. We do not sell or install the dish itself. And coverage work does not make a slow connection faster: if the service is the limit, more access points will not change it.
Do I have to replace what my internet provider gave me?
Not always. Sometimes the provider equipment stays and simply stops acting as the router. We will tell you which case you are in on the first call, or for certain after the survey.
Start with the free consult
Up to thirty minutes, by phone or video, and it costs nothing. We go through what equipment you have now, what the house is doing, and which of the services here actually fits. Often the answer is that you do not need me yet.