Fibre Wi-Fi, one room at a time

Why Wi-Fi in a building slows down

In most buildings several rooms depend on a single Wi-Fi device. The signal starts from one point, goes through walls and floors, and the available bandwidth is shared among every device connected at that moment.

The result is familiar: the room next to the device works well, the one at the end of the corridor much less so, and in the evening, when everyone connects at once, everyone slows down. Adding repeaters moves the problem without solving it, because the bandwidth at the source is still a single one.

A fibre and an access point in every room

In the networks we design, every single room gets a dedicated fibre and a Wi-Fi access point of its own. The signal does not have to cross the building: it starts inside the room where it is used.

• Full bandwidth arrives even when everyone is connected at the same time
• What happens in the other rooms does not slow down the ones next door
• The first and last rooms on a floor run at the same speed

It is the same logic as the fibre that reaches the building, taken one step further: from the central point to every room, instead of stopping at the door.

One cable, four services

Internet, television, telephone and building systems can run on the same fibre. Instead of installing four different systems, each with its own cables and devices, you install one.

Each service travels separately from the others, and the whole installation is managed from a single point. With fewer cables and devices around the building, the network also has fewer chances to fail over time.

Ten times further than copper

A copper run stops at 90 metres: beyond that you need intermediate devices, cabinets and power along the way. Fibre reaches 950 metres with a single cable.

For a complex with several buildings this changes the design: starting from the main building, a single cable reaches all the others, with no racks or switches to power along the way.

What happens with the power

The fibre distribution uses no electricity: power is needed only by the central devices and the access points. The same cable also powers the device in the room, so there are no cabinets or intermediate devices to power along the route.

If the building has to stay connected during a power cut too, during the site survey we can plan a UPS for the central devices.

A network that lasts twenty years

Fibre has a lifespan of around twenty years. When a new generation of Wi-Fi arrives, the access points and the router are replaced, and the fibre stays where it is.

That is the difference between redoing the installation and upgrading the devices: the slowest investment, the installation, is made only once.

From room to room without losing signal

All the access points are part of a single network managed by the central device, which hands the connection from one access point to the next as you move. Someone walking down the corridor during a call does not have to reconnect.

We measure this handover in every room during the final testing, together with signal and speed, and you find it in the final report. How we get to the final testing is explained on the page from site survey to final testing.