Designing Office Wi-Fi That Actually Works
Guessing access-point placement produces dead zones and interference. A predictive design plus an on-site validation survey gets coverage and capacity right.
Coverage Is Not Capacity
A phone showing full bars in every corner does not mean the Wi-Fi is good. What matters is capacity: enough access points, on the right channels, at the right power, to serve the number of devices actually in each area at once. Open-plan offices, boardrooms and canteens have very different densities.
Predictive Design First
We model the floor plan with wall materials and expected device counts to produce a heat-map: AP positions, mounting heights, channel plan and cabling drops. This catches problems — a boardroom that needs its own AP, a warehouse aisle that needs directional antennas — before anything is installed.
Validate On Site
After installation we walk the floor with survey tools and measure real signal, noise, data rates and roaming behaviour, then tune channels and power. The deliverable is a before-and-after survey, not just "it's up".
Get the Basics Right
- Wire every AP with CAT6A for multi-gig uplinks
- Separate SSIDs for staff (WPA3-Enterprise) and guests (isolated)
- Disable slow legacy data rates to keep the air efficient
- Centralised management so the whole estate is tuned as one system