South Manchester · Wired home networks

You're paying for high speed internet. Your desk isn't getting it.

We run weatherproof network cable to the rooms you actually use, around the outside of the building rather than through it. No floorboards up, nothing to redecorate. No mess, no fuss.

My house, measured

Full fibre: 2.7 Gbps. At my desk, over wifi: 95 Mbps.

Slow wasn't the worst of it. I logged my connection every 30 seconds for six months. Each square is one day.

508,323 measurements across 178 days before the cable: 4,058 stalls over 200ms, and the connection dropped completely on 90 of those days. 11 days on the cable: 0 stalls and 0 dropouts. MarAprMayJunJulAugSept M W F Cable goes in →
Stalls per day None1–56–2021–100100+ Connection dropped On the cable Install days

Grey: it stalled. Red: it dropped out completely. Amber: on the cable.

  • 149 of 178 days stalled long enough to clip a word off a call.
  • 90 days it dropped out altogether.
  • 11 days on the cable so far (to 25 September): no stalls, no dropouts.

This is my house, an end-terrace in Levenshulme. The cable goes round the outside. Speeds are from my own speed tests, wired and over wifi.

Looking straight up a brick gable wall: one thin black network cable runs up the brickwork to a ladder at the roofline

The fix

Ethernet cable, round the outside.

  • Weatherproof network cable up the outside wall, straight to the room you work in.
  • Two pencil-width holes, sloped down and sealed. No floorboards up, nothing to redecorate.
  • Usually done in a day. A wall socket at each end, tested before we leave.

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How it works

What it costs

One price. Everything in it.

One room
from £450
Two rooms
£650 to £950
Each extra room
+£100

Survey, cable, sockets, a switch in each room and testing, all included. No router sales: we'll tell you what to buy if you need it.

What's included

Will it work at yours?

Can you walk round your house, front to back, without crossing a neighbour's land?

Yes

Detached, semi, or end-terrace with side access. We can almost certainly do it.

No

Mid-terrace, most flats. Probably not, and we'll tell you on the phone, for free.

No obligation, no hard sell

Book a free survey

Tell us where you are and what's going wrong. We'll come and look, tell you honestly whether an external run works at your house, and give you a fixed price in writing. If it won't work, we'll say so and that's the end of it.

Answer no and we will still reply. We would rather tell you for free than charge you for a survey to say no.

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