Reliable Wi-Fi throughout your building

The handheld scanner in the warehouse loses its connection exactly at the last rack aisle. In the cafeteria the Wi-Fi works fine, but in the meeting room every video call drops after ten minutes. Someone once added a second router to fix it, and since then it has only gotten worse. We measure where it goes wrong and make sure you keep a connection everywhere in the building.

Why your Wi-Fi drops in the wrong place

Wi-Fi is radio, and radio does not care about your floor plan. A concrete floor, an elevator shaft, a rack full of boxes of liquid, or a metal roller door swallows the signal. That is why in a building of 400 square meters you can have three bars in one spot and nothing in the spot five meters further on. And a stronger antenna does not fix that: the signal simply does not get through two walls of concrete.

The second problem is crowding. Access points you hang up yourself are usually on the same channel as the neighbors and as each other. They then get in each other's way, and devices cling to an access point they should have let go of long ago. That feels like a slow network, while there is nothing wrong with your internet connection. You see the same thing after a move or a renovation: the new layout makes a setup that worked for years worthless in one go.

What a site survey delivers

A site survey is simply measuring. We walk through your building with measuring equipment and record how strong the signal is, which channels are already taken, and where the interference comes from. We also look at what has to happen next: five laptops in an open-plan office ask for something different than forty scanners sending short packets all day, or a classroom where thirty students log in at the same time.

Out of that comes a coverage map and a plan: how many access points you need, where they have to hang, which channel they get, and with how much power they transmit. Often it turns out you need fewer than expected, but in different places than where they hang now. If the measurement shows your problem is not with the Wi-Fi at all but with an old switch or an internet line that is too thin, we tell you right away instead of selling equipment that solves nothing.

From measurement to working access points

After the plan we hang the access points and set them up. Each point gets a fixed cable with power over it, so no power strips are needed on the ceiling. If that cabling is not there yet, the cable pulling, the patch cabinet, and the switch fall under Network design and installation, so you do not have to find a separate party for that.

Then we test with the devices you really use. We walk through the warehouse with a scanner and check that it hands over neatly from one access point to the next without losing the connection. We make a video call while walking through the building. Only when that is right is it done. You get the survey report and the settings on paper, because you are the owner of your own network and have to be able to carry on with it without us.

Guests, devices, and management

Visitors, suppliers, and the students or clients in your building do not belong on the same network as your accounting. We set up a separate guest network, with its own password and no view of your servers and printers. We do the same for equipment you do not control, such as a coffee machine or a set of cameras with their own software. If your people also work from home or on location, VPN and zero trust connects to that.

For the management afterward we keep it small. You get an environment in which you can change a password or reset an access point yourself. If you do not want to keep an eye on whether everything is still running yourself, we connect it to 24/7 network monitoring: systems watch continuously, and in an outage an alert follows according to an escalation we agree with you in advance. Every building is different, and you only notice that once you have measured in it.