Old stone house network distribution along with outside wifi

[lee4322]

Hi All recently moved to the north of spain ( Galician region )
Well it's picturesque and a beautiful place to live ,,BUT Old houses with thick walls and high ceiling a absolute nightmare to wire and distribute,,
Equally the 7 acres and outside buildings along with stables all need wifi ..
I know hard wired is best but are there options with out pulling cable and burying them again outside and inside
Any ideas and advice gratefully received and acted upon and be Bliss if any one knows a company here in Santiago de compestela that would undertake the work !

 

[SuperBanana]

You could do a mesh network between access points (AP) inside the house, so long as the walls allow transmission between adjacent rooms. This could get onerous, depending on the number of rooms and locations available to mount APs. You don't have to have wifi in every room.

For wifi between house and stables, you could do a long range wifi bridge from the outside of the house to the stable.

There are many brands of wifi networking equipment that do these kinds of thing. Find 'an computer place' and ask them who they would recommend.

 

[lee4322]

AP,s for sure needed ,, its how and woukd they be suffient as walls inside are all between 2ft stone internal and 3 to 4 foot thick external ,,
I would love to keep the whole plot as a single network rather than multiple networks to keep free flowing wifi and connections as sonos , tv,s all in smart set up ,, incl fire sticks ,, cctv cameras etc also running a VPN for remote working while in Spain ,, its a lot to juggle ,
Sure there are people here that can work a solution it's just finding them as its driving me crazy ,, just had starlink installed so ready to step it up ,,

 

[BMacD]

I have a similar house in the Algarve. I ran cable along the outside of the house, drilled through the walls where they are thinner (only 2ft or so) and use PoE Ubiquiti Unifi APs throughout. Our walls are all stone and all the electrical cabling is in conduit buried in the stone / concrete so external cables were a lot easier.

 

[SuperBanana]

I would love to keep the whole plot as a single network rather than multiple networks to keep free flowing wifi and connections ...

@BMacD beat me to it, with Ubiquiti you can have the one network across mesh APs. Or multiple networks at the same time across multiple APs; I have an SSID for 'users', one for 'devices', one for 'just me'

I assume that other vendors can do the same, you will have to investigate and find out. Ubiquiti is great, very flexible and powerful, however it does come at a premium cost, so it will depend on your budget if you get Ubiquiti or something else.

 

[Greg_E]

Dedicated bridge between house and out buildings, get something that is on a different band from home WiFi so they don't compete with each other.