Mesh WiFi installation in Geelong.
Mesh works brilliantly in the right house, badly in the wrong one, and only ever as well as its placement. We measure first, design from the numbers, and verify every room before we leave.
"I bought the mesh. It didn't fix it."
A big share of the mesh work we do is not a first installation. It is sorting out a system somebody bought in good faith, plugged in, and found made very little difference. Almost always the hardware is fine and the placement or configuration is the problem.
I bought a mesh three-pack and the back of the house is still terrible.
The nodes keep dropping off the network and I have to reboot them.
My phone hangs onto the wrong node and the speed collapses.
The box said it covers 500 square metres. It doesn't cover my hallway.
How many of these things do I actually need?
Someone told me mesh is the answer. Is it?
Is mesh actually right for your home?
Mesh is a genuinely good technology being sold to a lot of homes that do not need it. Here is where it works, and where it does not.
Where mesh is the right answer
Large single-storey homes
Long floorplans on big blocks are exactly what mesh was designed for. One router at the front of a 30-square home physically cannot reach the back. Two or three well-placed nodes can.
Double-storey homes where the office is upstairs
Signal travelling up through a floor loses a lot of strength, especially where there is insulation or ducting in the way. A node on the upper level, positioned properly, fixes what moving the router alone cannot.
Homes with sheds, studios or a granny flat
Getting coverage to a detached building is a design problem, not a shopping problem. Sometimes it is an outdoor-rated access point, sometimes a buried cable, sometimes a point to point link. Mesh is one option among several and we pick based on measurements.
Houses where running cable is genuinely impractical
Heritage double-brick, slab-on-ground with no roof access, rentals where you cannot drill. Wireless mesh earns its place here because the alternative is not available.
Where mesh is the wrong answer
Small homes and apartments
In a two-bedroom unit the problem is almost never coverage. It is a crowded channel with a dozen neighbouring networks on it, or a modem hidden in a cupboard. Adding nodes to a crowded street makes the congestion worse, not better.
When the connection itself is the bottleneck
If the service coming into the house is slow or unstable, mesh will spread that slow, unstable connection evenly around the house. That is the only thing it will do. We test the incoming connection separately so this gets ruled in or out before anyone spends money.
When the router is simply in the wrong place
A modem on the floor, inside a cabinet, behind a mirror, next to a fridge. Moving it costs nothing and sometimes removes the dead spot entirely. We try the free fix before the paid one.
Want the longer explanation first? Read Mesh WiFi Explained before you book.
How a mesh install runs, start to finish.
Assessment first, always
Every mesh job starts with the $149 WiFi assessment. We heat map the home, measure signal and speed in every room, and check what the neighbouring networks are doing. The design comes out of that data, not out of a box on a shelf.
We design the system to your floorplan
How many nodes, and exactly which rooms they go in. Node placement is the single biggest factor in whether a mesh system performs, and the instinct to put them in the dead spot is usually wrong. A node needs a strong link back to the main unit, so it goes between the router and the dead spot, not in it.
We wire the backhaul wherever we can
The link between mesh nodes is called backhaul. Wireless backhaul spends part of your available airtime carrying traffic between the nodes themselves. Running a cable to even one node, where the building allows it, removes that cost and lifts the performance of the whole system. Where cabling is not possible we design the wireless links properly instead.
We configure it, we do not just plug it in
Channels and channel widths set for your street rather than the factory default, band steering behaving itself, a single network name so devices roam cleanly between nodes, guest network separated if you want one, firmware current. This is the part that separates a mesh system that works from one that sits in the cupboard a year later.
We verify room by room before we leave
We re-measure the same points we measured at the start, in front of you, so you can see the before and after. If a node is in the wrong spot the numbers say so and we move it. Nobody leaves on a hunch.
You get 30 days of follow-up support
Networks meet the real world after we drive away. New devices arrive, furniture moves, a neighbour installs a new router. For 30 days after the job, follow-up support is included.
Every mesh install includes all of this.
- ✓ Full WiFi assessment and heat map before any hardware is chosen
- ✓ A node-by-node design matched to your floorplan, with a reason for every placement
- ✓ Wired backhaul where the building allows it
- ✓ Quality hardware, UniFi and similar, chosen to suit the home rather than the shelf
- ✓ Full configuration: channels, channel widths, roaming, guest network, firmware
- ✓ Room by room verification before we leave, with before and after numbers
- ✓ Plain-English handover so you know how your own system works
- ✓ 30 days of follow-up support
How the pricing works
It starts with the $149 assessment, which is a flat price with no call-out fee on top. Once we have measured your home we give you a fixed quote for the hardware and the work, before anything is ordered and before anything is installed. No hourly rate ticking over, no surprises at the end.
If you buy the hardware through us, the $149 you have already paid covers the install labour. If you would rather buy the gear yourself, that is completely fine, and the report tells you exactly what to buy.
Sometimes the fix is the gear you already own.
A back bedroom, measured before and after. No new hardware. The whole gain came from configuring the existing equipment properly.
Every Google review we have ever received is five stars.
He managed to utilize my existing hardware (Google nest) and quadrupled the speed & stabilized the signal.
They quickly identified and fixed my internet issues with minimal fuss.
set us up in a new townhouse on FTTP expertly. Very professional.
Mesh WiFi, answered.
How much does mesh WiFi installation cost in Geelong? +
It depends on how many nodes your home needs and whether we can run cable, so we do not publish a single figure. What we can say is that it starts with the $149 assessment, and you get a fixed quote before any work starts. The $149 covers the install labour when the hardware is bought through us.
Do I actually need mesh, or will one good router do? +
Plenty of homes do not need mesh. Small homes, apartments and units usually have a channel or placement problem rather than a coverage problem, and those cost nothing to fix. Large single-storey homes, double-storey homes and properties with a shed or studio are where mesh genuinely earns its keep. The assessment tells you which one you are, before you spend anything.
How many mesh nodes do I need? +
There is no honest answer to that without measuring your home. The packaging on a three-pack quotes a coverage area measured in an empty space, and your house has walls, insulation and furniture in it. We measure, then we tell you the number, and it is often fewer than people expect.
Can you install the mesh system I already bought? +
Yes, and we would rather do that than sell you something new. If the gear you own can do the job, we will position it, configure it and verify it. Belinda's job is a good example of exactly that, we used her existing hardware. If your gear genuinely is not up to it we will explain why, with numbers, and you can decide.
Why does my phone stay connected to the wrong mesh node? +
Because your phone decides when to switch, not the network, and it holds on longer than you would like. A properly configured mesh system nudges that decision along with correct power levels and roaming settings, so the handover happens before the speed collapses. This is a configuration job, not a hardware fault, and it is one of the most common things we correct.
Do you install mesh outside Geelong? +
Yes. We cover Geelong, the Surf Coast, the Bellarine Peninsula, Golden Plains and the Colac and Otways region. We come to you, there is no shopfront to visit, and same-week appointments are usually available.
Get the mesh design right the first time
Start with the $149 assessment. You will know how many nodes you need, where they go, and whether you need mesh at all before you spend a cent on hardware.