If you believed the marketing departments for most consumer network vendors, you’d believe that Wifi7 is the messiah. It’s all very 5G, again. Whether I’m right or wrong will be proven in time, but I’ll start with the simple statement:

“Wires beat wireless anytime”

David Sheddan

Whether it be in a large detached home, a council semi detached, flat or apartment. If you can wire a network connected device you absolutely should.

I’ve already completed a 1gig(2.5gig) network in my apartment which is powered by a 1gig symmetric Hyperoptic link. When I built that network back in 2012 , 1 gig was a pipe dream, 5e seemed fast enough. The network has performed flawlessly (and continues to do so). All the TVs are powered by AppleTV, the office has wired network points and the wifi is good. And whilst there are several things I’m going to to do modernise it – thats for another story.

With this isn mind, one of the top “to do” items for our new house when we purchased in in 2019 was a modernised network. As with all such projects, it’s been 4 years, but that journey is now complete. The auricles in this series will go through the concept, through to design, installation and build, plus lessons learned. In the interim, I’ve been running on a Wifi5 – Orbi service, which has been excellent.

So what’s the vision:

I wanted to install a network that would work for me, today, tomorrow, indeed for the next 20-25 years. A wire once, and upgrade if you will. I’ve termed this 25for25, as in effect I want to be able to deliver up to 25Gbit connections anywhere in my house. So is that even possible, how did I do it and did I succeed.

I’ll go over that in the coming articles.