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Business  Wi-Fi  installation  in  Melbourne.

Commercial Wi-Fi and the network underneath it, designed for the floor area and the wall construction you actually have, and installed by our own crew from Tullamarine across Melbourne and Victoria.

It is for offices, warehouses and industrial sites where the wireless has to reach a scanner at the end of an aisle, not only a laptop beside the router. We cable the access points, build the switching and routing behind them, and hand over the configuration.
Sheet
Networking & Wi-Fi
Area served
Melbourne & VIC
Hours
Mon–⁠Fri 07:00–⁠16:00
Quote
Itemised, no charge
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What  goes  in.

The access point is the part you see. The other three items decide whether it works.

Ref Item
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    Wi-Fi coverage

    Ceiling or wall-mounted access points, placed from the floor plan and what the walls are made of.

    • Access points placed to cover each aisle
    • Runs past 100 metres need fibre or a cabinet
  • WF-12

    Switching

    PoE switches in the rack that power the access points, cameras and door controllers and carry their traffic to the router.

    • PoE budget covers every device on the switch
    • Bandwidth management
  • WF-13

    Routing and security controls

    The router and firewall at the edge of the network: who can reach what, from inside and from outside.

    • Firewall rules between networks
    • VPN & remote access
  • WF-14

    Segmentation

    Separate networks on the same cable and the same access points, so a guest phone cannot see the cameras or the accounts PC.

    • Guest network reaches the internet only
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Warehouse  Wi-Fi  is  not  office  Wi-Fi.

Office Wi-Fi is designed around plasterboard and desks. These are the things that change on an industrial floor.

01 Racking and stock block the signal.
Steel racking reflects it and a full pallet bay absorbs it. An access point above the racking covers the top of the pallets, not the aisle. Access points belong where they look along each aisle, and the design has to assume the racking is full.
02 Height works against you.
At roof height a ceiling access point spreads its signal wide and thin. The handheld scanner on the floor is the weaker radio, and it has to be heard back. The fix is a lower mounting point on the structure or an antenna aimed down the aisle.
03 Forklifts and scanners roam.
A scanner on a forklift passes from one access point to the next in the middle of a transaction. Neighbouring access points need enough overlap to hand it over, and not so much that they talk over each other on the same channel.
04 The cable decides where an access point can go.
Every access point needs a run back to a PoE switch within the 100 metre copper limit. At the far end of a long shed that means fibre or an intermediate cabinet, which is a data cabling decision made at the same time, and the quote says which. Our Cat6 vs Cat6A guide covers which cable to pull to the ceiling.
05 Offices fail at the walls.
Concrete, brick, foil-backed insulation and a lift core stop a signal that plasterboard lets through. More access points at lower power cover a floor better than two at full power.

Site attendance and the itemised quote are at no charge and no obligation.

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How  a  business  Wi-Fi  installation  runs.

Have ready for the site visit

  • A floor plan, with the racking layout if there is one.
  • Where the wireless drops out now, marked on that plan.
  • What connects to it: scanners, laptops, phones, EFTPOS terminals, cameras, meeting room screens and signage.
  • The model numbers of the switch and router you have.
  1. 01

    We attend site.

    We walk the floor with the plan and note the wall construction, the racking, the ceiling height and where cable can be run.

  2. 02

    You get an itemised quote.

    The access points, switch, router and cable runs are each a line, with the equipment named. Ask for the access point positions to be marked on your plan, on this quote or any other.

  3. 03

    Cable, mount and configure.

    A cable is run to each position, the access points are mounted and the switch goes in the rack. Networks, channels, power levels and firewall rules are set.

  4. 04

    Commissioning.

    Every device is tested and demonstrated. A wireless network is best proved from the floor, with the devices that will use it: a scanner at the end of an aisle, not a laptop under the access point. Moving a live network across is scheduled out of hours and announced in advance.

  5. 05

    Handover.

    You receive the administrator credentials, the configuration and the as-built documentation.

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What  the  quote  depends  on.

No price list. These are the things we measure on site.

  • Floor area, and what the walls or racking are made of.
  • The number of access points and the height they are mounted at.
  • The length of the cable run to each one, and whether there is containment to run it in.
  • How many devices connect, and whether they are scanners or video calls.
  • PoE ports and power budget: whether the switch you have can stay.
  • The number of separate networks and the firewall rules between them.
  • Outdoor areas such as a yard or loading dock.

Wi-Fi is one line on the schedule of what we install. Once the network is in, day-to-day changes to it sit with business IT support.

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Questions  we  get  asked.

Wi-Fi and network questions only. Cost, ownership and subscriptions are answered on the Solutions sheet.

What is a wireless site survey?

It is a walk of the building to decide where access points go before any are bought. The survey records wall construction, ceiling height, racking, sources of interference and where a cable can reach. Skipping it is how a site ends up with access points wherever the last cable happened to finish.

How many access points does a building need?

It depends on the walls and the devices, not only the floor area. An open office with plasterboard partitions needs fewer than the same area divided by concrete, and a room of forty laptops on video calls needs more than a storeroom with one scanner. Ask for the positions to be marked on your plan, so the count can be checked against the building.

Will a mesh system or a few extenders do the job?

Rarely, in a business. An extender repeats the signal over the same air the devices are using, so each hop takes capacity away from them. An access point on its own cable does not have that cost, which is why a business access point belongs on a cable.

Do access points need a power point in the ceiling?

No. They are powered over the data cable from a PoE switch in the rack, so the only thing in the ceiling is the cable. The switch has a total power budget, and it has to cover the access points plus any cameras and door hardware on the same switch.

Should guests and staff be on the same Wi-Fi?

No. A guest network should reach the internet and nothing else. With staff devices, cameras, door controllers and scanners each on their own segment, a compromised phone in reception cannot see the recorder or the accounts PC.

Why does the Wi-Fi work in the office and fail in the warehouse?

Because the office access point was never designed to cover the warehouse. Signal that passes through a plasterboard wall is stopped by steel racking and stock, and a scanner on the floor cannot answer an access point it can barely hear. The warehouse needs its own access points, cabled and placed for the aisles.
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Related  sheets.

Send  us  the  floor  plan.

Mark where the Wi-Fi drops out and what needs to connect there. We attend site and send an itemised quote, at no charge. Enquiries are read Monday to Friday, 07:00–16:00.

Transmittal Issued for enquiry
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Gentex AU · Tullamarine VIC
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Phone or email, usually the same business day
Attending
Mon–⁠Fri 07:00–⁠16:00
Licensing
Victorian Private Security Licence