Weak or No WiFi? Professional Solutions to Cover Your Entire Property

In a modern home, WiFi carries far more than browsing: remote work (video calls, VPN), streaming in every bedroom, home automation (shutters, heating, irrigation), cameras and the alarm, consoles and voice assistants. A dead zone is therefore not mere discomfort: it's a security camera dropping offline, a wasted work-from-home day, an unreachable thermostat.

The classic trap: stacking up repeaters over the years. Each repeater halves throughput and adds latency; by the third, the network becomes unpredictable. The right approach is whole-property sizing — indoors and out.

The orders of magnitude we apply in residential projects:

• Recent construction (drywall, light concrete): one access point per 100-120 m² per level.
• Old stone buildings (village houses, farmhouses): one access point per 50-80 m² — a 50 cm stone wall attenuates signal as much as three modern partitions.
• Floors count separately: a concrete slab rarely lets a usable signal through. A 200 m² house on two levels is treated as two 100 m² zones, with at least one AP per level.
• Outdoors counts separately: terrace, pool and garden are not covered "by overflow" from inside — coated glazing and walls block most of the signal.

These rules give the starting point; each AP's exact position is set by on-site measurements. The full method — mapping, radio plan, testing — is detailed in our WiFi coverage guide.

A typical project profile: villa on two levels plus basement, stone load-bearing walls, pool with a pool house 25 metres away, motorised gate with video intercom. The living-room box barely covered half the ground floor; three accumulated repeaters produced an unstable network with three different names.

The deployed solution: five access points — two on the ground floor, two upstairs, one in the basement — PoE-cabled through the attic and false ceilings, plus an IP65 outdoor AP under the roof overhang for the terrace and pool, and a point-to-point radio bridge to the pool house (no cable could cross the garden). One network name, seamless roaming: you walk from the living room to the pool without dropping a video call. Measured result: over 300 Mbps in every room, 150 Mbps poolside, intercom and cameras stable.

Another frequent profile: 120 m² upstairs in an old building in central Nice, thick internal walls, box relegated to the entrance next to the fibre entry point. Symptoms: excellent speed in the hallway, WiFi nearly unusable in the courtyard-side bedrooms, and 2.4 GHz saturated by dozens of neighbouring networks.

The solution: two ceiling access points — one in the central corridor, one in the living room — powered over PoE via a discreet cable along the cornice, 5 GHz favoured (less crowded in apartment buildings), power levels tuned so as not to spill onto the neighbours, and the box demoted to modem duty. Contained cost, no wall chasing, and a uniform network above 200 Mbps in every room. It's the most common apartment pattern: two well-placed APs comfortably outperform any box-plus-repeater combo.

The Riviera outdoors demands purpose-built hardware: IP65 APs resistant to rain, UV and salt air, mounted under a roof overhang or on a sheltered façade, with protected cabling. Three configurations cover nearly all needs:

• Terrace and immediate surroundings: one outdoor AP against the house is usually enough.
• Large or terraced garden: one or two extra APs on high points (pergola, discreet mast), oriented from the heatmap.
• Distant outbuilding (pool house, guest studio, workshop): a dedicated point-to-point radio bridge — up to several hundred metres with line of sight — or a buried cable if a conduit exists.

To avoid at all costs: putting an indoor AP outside "for the summer" (it won't survive the humidity) and powerline adapters through outdoor sockets, unpredictable on older electrical installations.

If your situation resembles either case above, the path is well-marked: an on-site audit (one to two hours) measures the real propagation in your home, quantifies the number of APs and their placement, and produces a precise quote — without heavy works in the vast majority of cases. You can then have us do the installation through our WiFi installation service, or use the plan to do it yourself.

Request your free diagnosis: describe your home (surface, levels, materials, zones to cover) and we'll reply with a first estimate.