Network & Data Cabling

Ubiquiti is our standard — excellent ecosystem. Ruijie is cost-effective for larger commercial deployments. Both deliver enterprise performance.

Home WiFi upgrade with 2-3 APs: from £1,500. Full cabling for a 4-bed: £3,000-£6,000. Office builds quoted on requirements.

Cat6 supports speeds up to 1Gbps and is fine for most current applications. Cat6a supports 10Gbps across the full 100-metre cable run and has better shielding against crosstalk. The cost difference is relatively small — typically 15-20% more for Cat6a — but the performance ceiling is ten times higher. We recommend Cat6a for all new installations because it future-proofs your property for at least the next 15-20 years. If you're going to the trouble of running cables through walls, it makes sense to install the best once rather than re-cable later.

A typical 2-3 bed London flat usually needs 1-2 access points. A 4-5 bed house across two or three floors typically needs 3-4. Period properties with thick brick walls and lath-and-plaster ceilings often need more than modern builds because the construction absorbs WiFi signal heavily. We plan coverage based on your actual floor plan, wall construction, and where you need strong signal — not a generic formula. During our site survey, we assess signal propagation and design access point placement to eliminate dead zones while avoiding unnecessary hardware.

A VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) segments your single physical network into separate logical networks. In a smart home, this means your IoT devices — cameras, sensors, smart speakers — sit on a different network segment from your personal computers, phones, and sensitive data. If a smart device is compromised, the attacker cannot reach your personal files or banking. VLANs also improve performance by reducing broadcast traffic — your 40 IoT devices won't congest the network your family uses for streaming and work. We configure VLANs on every smart home network we build as standard practice.