Home Networking South Africa

Home Networking South Africa covers the house rather than the office: wired points behind the TV and the study desk, WiFi that reaches the back bedroom, and a setup that does not fall over when everyone is streaming at once.

What Gets Installed at Home

• Wired points. Study, TV, gaming console and the home office.
• Mesh or access points. Ceiling or shelf units so coverage reaches the whole house.
• A small switch. Because the fibre router has four ports and you need eight.
• Backup power. A small UPS so the router and ONT ride out a power cut.
• Outdoor coverage. Patio, cottage, flatlet or a camera at the gate.

The Usual Complaints

• One room has no signal. Thick walls, a double storey, or a router in the wrong place.
• It drops in the evening. Everyone streaming at once on a single band.
• The cottage has nothing. Too far for WiFi, needs cable or a point to point link.
• Working from home is slow. A video call on WiFi next to a microwave and a TV.
• Too many extenders. Each one halves the speed of the one before it.

Home Networking Prices

Ballpark home networking figures so you can check a quotation.

What Affects the Price

• Size and layout. A double storey with face brick is the hard case.
• How many points. Volume brings the per-point rate down.
• Where the fibre comes in. A router in a corner cupboard is half the problem.
• Ceiling access. An open roof space is quick; a flat concrete slab is not.
• Mesh or cabled access points. Cabled is better and needs a point in the ceiling.
• Outbuildings. Anything across the garden usually needs cable or a wireless link.

What to Include in Your Request

• The house type. Single or double storey, freestanding, townhouse or apartment.
• Rough size. Square metres, or the number of bedrooms.
• Where the router is. And where the fibre or LTE comes into the house.
• Which rooms are dead. The specific rooms, not just 'the back of the house'.
• What you want wired. TV, study, console, office, cameras.
• Wall construction. Brick, drywall, double brick or a concrete slab between floors.

Before the Installer Comes Out

• Move the router first. It is free, and it fixes a surprising number of dead zones.
• Cable the access points. A wired mesh unit is far better than a wireless one.
• Wire the TV. Streaming on cable solves buffering that WiFi tuning will not.
• Think about the gate. A point at the gate now saves a trench later.
• Check the fibre line first. A slow line looks exactly like a bad network.

Home Networking FAQs

Home networks are one of the jobs providers on Network Cabling South Africa quote for, alongside WiFi, points and cameras.

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