WiFi dead spots? We map them.
Every Geelong home has them somewhere — back bedroom, the deck, the granny flat, the upstairs office. We walk every room with proper kit, build a heat-map, and fix them on the day. $149 flat.
Book your $149 dead-spot fix →Five reasons your WiFi falls over in certain rooms.
It's almost never your router's fault on its own. There are five common causes — and most homes have two or three at once. The diagnosis identifies which combination is hitting your place.
Distance from the router
The single most common cause. WiFi signal halves with every wall, every metre, every floor. A router on the front bookshelf physically cannot reach the back bedroom of a 28-square family home — that's geometry, not a router fault.
Wall materials in your house
Geelong has three killer wall types: heritage double-brick (Newtown, Geelong West, Queenscliff), brick-veneer with foil-backed insulation (almost every 1970s+ home), and rendered double-brick on new estates (Charlemont, Armstrong Creek). All three eat the modern fast WiFi band for breakfast.
Neighbours' WiFi drowning yours out
Apartment buildings in the Geelong CBD, narrow heritage streets in Newtown, and small-lot estates in Curlewis all have the same issue: half a dozen neighbour networks competing for the same channel as yours. We pick the cleanest channel for your address.
Furniture, mirrors, fish tanks, the laundry
The list of things that block WiFi signal is longer than most people expect. Big mirrors. Fridges. Fish tanks. Brick chimneys. The cabinet your modem is actually living inside. We move the gear, then we measure again.
An undersized router for the home
Most ISP-supplied modems are designed for a small unit, not a family home. They were free with the plan because they cost the ISP almost nothing. The right answer isn't always 'buy mesh' — sometimes the right answer is moving the gear you already own.
The fixes — in order of cheapest first.
We don't reach for the mesh box first. We work through the cheap fixes first and only recommend new gear if it's genuinely needed.
- 1 Move the router off the floor and out of the cupboard — half the dead spots in Geelong vanish on this alone.
- 2 Pick the right WiFi channel for your address (your neighbours might all be on 6 — pick something else).
- 3 Add a single wired access point in the right room, not a three-pack of mesh in the wrong rooms.
- 4 Fix the connection between your modem and your router — bad cabling kills half the speed before it even leaves the cabinet.
- 5 Run a real heat-map (not the phone-app guess) and let the data drive the recommendations.
Suburbs we hear about most often.
Different parts of the Geelong region have different dead-spot patterns — driven by housing era, wall materials, and house geometry.
long copper FTTN + brick-veneer mid-walls
heritage double-brick walls eating signal between rooms
two-storey homes with the master bedroom upstairs and the router downstairs
brand-new double-brick + foil sarking blocking 5 GHz
big new floorplans on small lots
30+ neighbour routers in the same apartment building
three-storey coastal homes with the router on level one
multi-level homes built into the slope — three Faraday cages stacked
We cover all 60+ suburbs across Geelong, the Surf Coast, the Bellarine, Golden Plains and the Colac region. See your suburb.
WiFi dead spots, answered.
What actually causes WiFi dead spots in Geelong homes? +
Almost always one of three things: the router is too far from where you're using it, your wall materials are blocking the signal, or your neighbours' networks are stomping on your channel. The $149 assessment finds out which one — we measure with proper kit, not a phone app.
Will a mesh system fix dead spots in my house? +
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Mesh is brilliant for big single-storey homes and large rural blocks. It's overkill for small apartments and often wrongly placed in two-storey homes. We tell you whether mesh is the right fix BEFORE you spend the money.
Can you fix dead spots without me buying new gear? +
Often, yes. Most homes we visit don't need new hardware — they need the existing gear set up properly. Different channel, different placement, sometimes a $30 cable. We'd rather fix it for free than sell you something you don't need.
How long does the dead-spot diagnosis take? +
About 90 minutes on site. We walk every room, measure signal AND speed at every device location, build a real heat-map (the kind your phone app can't), and tell you exactly where the dead spots are AND why. Written report inside 24 hours.
Do you cover the Surf Coast and Bellarine for dead-spot fixes? +
Yes — same flat $149, same on-site visit, same written report. Travel inside the Geelong / Surf Coast / Bellarine / Golden Plains / Colac & Otways patch is included.
Ready to map the dead spots?
$149 flat, on-site, with a real heat-map and a written report. We come to you, anywhere in the Geelong region.