WiFi Coverage Planner — by Shield Low Voltage
How Much WiFi
Does Your House Need?
Answer eight questions and watch the design build itself — access point count, placement, the exact UniFi models, the switch that can actually feed them, and the drops we’d have to add. The same math our designers use, running in your browser.
What we would install
Interior Outdoor Detached
4 access points
Planned at 1,125 ft² each — three-quarters of the 1,500 ft² on the spec sheet. That derating is the whole trick: it is what holds up once the signal has to cross real walls.
What we’d install
Worth knowing
A planner gets you the shape of the job. A walkthrough gets you the truth — where the lath is, where the conduit runs, which wall the rack wants. That visit is free.
Already Have WiFi?
Walk the House.
Find Out Where It Dies.
Stand in a room, tap once, and this measures the download and upload speed your phone is actually getting there. Do it in five or six rooms and you have a map of your own house — which is usually more persuasive than anything we could tell you.
Measuring…
What your house is doing right now
Measured through your internet connection, so every room is capped by the plan you pay for — which is why rooms are scored against the best room in your house rather than against a number. That comparison is the part that says something about the WiFi.
Why 75% of the Rated Coverage
Spec Sheets Are Written
for Empty Rooms.
A manufacturer rates an access point in open air. Your house has stucco with wire lath, brick around the fireplace, a concrete basement wall and a refrigerator between the router and the kitchen table — and 6 GHz, the band that makes WiFi 7 worth having, is the first thing to die crossing them. So we design at three-quarters of the number on the box, roughly one access point every 25 to 30 feet. It sometimes costs one more unit, and it is the difference between full bars and actual throughput.