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Many of our customers have been disappointed to find that their broadband access varied in quality a lot from room to room. Some rooms or even the garden may have Wi-Fi ‘Dead-Spots’ where the home network just doesn’t reach, is very slow or only works intermittently.
Unfortunately, some of our (customers found struggled) at first to work from home, their kids struggled to do online lessons and when it came to buffering or stalling TV on demand, tempers can fray at the best of times.
Some people think that their broadband quality is to blame, although their ISP swears it is working perfectly. More often than not, it isn’t the broadband that’s the problem, but your connection to it.
Wi-Fi is never quite as smooth, consistent or fast as connecting straight to your router with an ethernet cable and that is where we come in.
We offer ethernet cabling installation near you and the results speak for themselves, so if you’re wondering about home network installations, get in touch with us today.
Ensuring that you can use your home’s broadband for work rest and play has never been more important than it has been since the COVID. Many people hadn’t realised just how much they might rely on the Internet for social contact, entertainment and work.
This piece by a University of Birmingham academic sums up the importance of broadband in the UK. Broadband is no longer a luxury, but should be considered a basic right!
Unfortunately, some of our customers found struggled at first to work from home, their kids struggled to do online lessons and when it came to buffering or stalling TV on demand, tempers can fray at the best of times.
Setting up a home network doesn’t have to be difficult, just trust MKH, the home network experts.
We are able to help bring your service up to scratch with our Home Network Cabling Service and Installation and our high quality Access Points.
MKH are not just about cabling though. We know people love Wi-Fi despite its faults and phone and tablet computers don’t have network ports for direct cabled connection to the network.
We offer commercial grade Wi-Fi access points at the end of your network cabling, installed wherever you need them!
If you’re looking for some of the best wireless home networks in Birmingham, get in touch.
We are delighted to install home ethernet network cabling and network sockets across the West Midlands, providing convenient network sockets / boxes in each room. Connecting your computer to your router via a “hard wire” ethernet network cable almost always boosts the speeds you achieve. Faster broadband means better work, rest and play. Just let us know the most convenient places to install your sockets or show us your set-up and we’ll get straight to work.
Whether you are in Birmingham, Solihull or Sutton Coldfield, get in touch with MKH and ask about our fast, efficient domestic network cabling service for more details.
As more and more people are working from home now, Internet connection and download speeds are very important for the home office.
An average router can supply a strong enough signal to supply broadband around a smaller type of property, such as a three-bedroomed house. However, this is not always the case as the signal can be affected by many obstructions, for example, the framework or structure of the property and the position of the router.
If you need to use a Virtual Private Network to connect to your office computers you will benefit even more from a fast connection as the extra routing involved with a VPN will usually slow your connection down slightly.
Even without a VPN, working from home often involves the transfer of large files to and from your office, teleconferencing for remote meetings, IP phones for cheaper phone calls and often online music streaming services to keep you going while you work.
Ultimately you bought the fastest broadband that you could afford and you need the best connection between your devices and router in order to make the most from your Internet services.
There’s no point in having a fast Internet connection to your house if you can’t connect reliably inside your own property!
Perhaps you’d like your lounge hard-wired to make the best of your on-demand TV services?
Streaming full HD or even 4K TV to one or more televisions around the house can easily exceed your home’s Wi-Fi signal quality or bandwidth. Even if you have enough bandwidth, an interruption to your viewing can be frustrating. You can even lose your place on some streaming services.
It can be embarrassing for guests to have to wait while you skip through the video to find your place. Then you sit holding your breath in case it happens again!
Adding a network socket to a bedroom with Wi-Fi Access Point can give the whole storey of your house access to faster, more reliable broadband.
The closer your access point is to the devices that need to connect, the stronger your signal will be.
If you have a computer gamer in your house, then you probably already know how important a good Internet connection is to gaming these days.
Update patches, downloadable content and online gaming itself requires a strong Internet connection as modern games can require downloads many Gigabytes in size. Nobody likes to wait, but with a flakey broadband connection, you could be waiting a long time to play.
Once you get going, you don’t want to lose games because your computer is lagging, trying to connect to the game server!
Home Network Cabling is the ONLY way to be sure that you get the lowest lag, the lowest latency and the fasted broadband speeds.
If you are paying for high-speed Internet to your house, but you are only able to connect sporadically and at low speeds, you are wasting money and will only ever get a disappointing service.
Customers using baby monitors, TV senders, or other radio-frequency equipment which can make it harder to get a good Wi-Fi signal, can benefit from hardwired network sockets or even extra Wi-Fi access points to work around problematic signals. Sidebanding from overlapping radio frequencies are not a problem if you are plugged directly into your network.
Wi-Fi alarms, CCTV, Internet Enabled Smart Devices, your mobile, tablets, laptops and more, will all be a lot more pleasurable to use, stable and reliable with better home Wi-Fi and where possible, a hardline connection to the Internet.
We are increasingly being asked to hardwire data cabling points to either one or more rooms around the home to improve connection and download speeds. Hardwiring, meaning a fixed cable between the router and the receiving equipment, i.e laptop, desktop or smart TV.
For a small price you can save on a lot of frustration from slow download speeds, lost or slow connection and sight searching. I have been asked in the past to move the broadband router to another point that is closer or more convenient for the user.
Whilst moving the router is possible it is not always practical as your incoming signals can be affected by longer cable runs. It is much wiser to leave the router where it was originally installed and have extensions from the router to the point that the broadband is required.
I can’t say which type of data cable is best for your situation without knowing your needs. I can tell you what I know based on my experience and technical standards. The decision is yours as the jury is still very much out on this one! Industry standard is very much CAT 5e. However Cat 6 is a more expensive and slightly superior cable to CAT 5e, why?
CAT 5e
CAT 6:
In most home offices, the different performance of CAT 5e or CAT 6 would not be evident. In fact, with newly emerging protocols, even Cat 5e cables can carry up to 2.5Gbps now!
Most standard equipment won’t currently exceed the potential speed of CAT 5e, so it is more than adequate for most people. We use high quality cables, so our Cat 5e cable will work really well with 2.5Gbps capable home networks too.
CAT 6 installations is most commonly used in large multipoint environments such as large office buildings, though we are delighted to install it for home users if required.
Installing a network cable will ensure: greater speeds, less latency, a more secure connection and reliability. Which means a lot less downtime if you’re working from home and rely upon the Internet for your job.
There are no disadvantages to getting network cable installed at your home, the improvements for gaming, video calls, VoIP (voice over internet protocol) and general stability of your home network are all greatly improved.
In short, yes, wherever possible always opt for a wired cable network connection over Wi-Fi where possible. Hardwired cable networks are simply faster, more secure and less prone to dropping out.
Assuming your devices have an Ethernet port, having a wired cable connection will benefit from: faster speeds, less latency and a more reliable connection than a Wi-Fi network.
On a typical three bedroomed type property it costs between £80 to £120 to have an Ethernet port installed depending on the cable length, the more Ethernet ports installed, the cheaper each one becomes.
Depending on what category cable, but home network cabling can be as little as £40.00 per room without modular socket.
Ethernet cabling is done by making a connection via cabling from a router to a room with fixed cable, this would normally be installed discreetly on the exterior of the building.
No, you can leave Wi-Fi on for those that need Wi-Fi, using a wired connection at the same time will not reduce the Wi-Fi signal or vice versa.
Quotations would be subject to a survey, so give us a call and we can start the process.
CAT-6 cables have stricter performance specifications and significantly higher data transfer speeds at greater distances.
The more points you have the cheaper it becomes for each point. To illustrate, a single additional point taken from the router to a bedroom, starts from as little as £65. The length of the cable run and the access to fitting all has to be taken into consideration. We can hardwire your broadband access into as many or few rooms as you’d like.
A typical installation consists of CAT 5/ CAT 6 network cable, sockets and patch leads.