There’s no one-size-fits-all WiFi answer for Herne Hill. The right fix depends on the specific street, the specific home, and what’s actually available at that address.
What makes WiFi in Herne Hill its own thing.
It’s mostly about the houses. Post-war weatherboards and 1960s brick veneers, with mature trees, plus newer infill townhouses along the Minerva Road and Church Street strips. The era and the materials drive most of what goes wrong with WiFi here — and most of what we end up fixing.
What we’ve seen in Herne Hill.
One Herne Hill house had a perfectly healthy fibre service measuring 537 Mbps at the wall and never more than about 145 Mbps anywhere on WiFi. The cause was placement: three mesh points all bunched in the front half of the house, back-hauling over a 5 GHz channel shared with seventeen neighbouring networks. A wall-mounted ISP modem left broadcasting in a back room was quietly making it worse, stranding devices that roamed onto it. Terminating one patch lead so a mesh point could use an existing in-wall garage run took the main bedroom from 89 Mbps to 545.
What you get on the day.
Bookings are usually available within a week. We arrive on the day with the assessment kit (proper WiFi diagnostic gear, not a phone app) and walk every room with you. Real speed tests at every device location. A drawing of the whole place with the speed in every room. An honest read on whether your existing gear is up to the job.
Inside 24 hours of the visit you’ll have a written report — plain English, no jargon, ranked from most-important to least. If the right call is “do nothing, you’ve already got what you need”, that’s the call we’ll make. Honesty is the actual product.
Where we draw the line.
We won’t tell you to buy mesh just because mesh is fashionable. We won’t sign you up to a subscription. We won’t sell you a router from the cabinet that costs more than the one you’ve already got, unless it’s actually going to fix your problem. Most homes in our service area don’t need new gear — they need the existing gear set up properly.
All of Herne Hill (3218) is in our service area, plus every adjoining suburb. No travel surcharge across the wider Geelong region.
