How much does business WiFi installation cost?

Depends on building size, AP count and hardware brand. A single-floor 8 to 12 AP office install runs £4,000 to £8,000 for Ubiquiti or Aruba Instant On hardware including survey, install and configuration. Multi-floor offices £10,000 to £25,000. Warehouses with industrial APs £8,000 to £20,000+. Survey first, fixed price after.

How many access points does my office need?

Rule of thumb: one AP per 100 to 150 m² of typical office space, more for dense meeting rooms and break-out areas, fewer for warehouses and open-plan. Capacity matters more than coverage in modern offices. A single AP can cover a large floor for signal but choke under load with 40 users on Teams calls. We design to capacity, not coverage alone.

Can WiFi reach a garden office reliably?

Often yes, with the right approach. Mesh works for short distances and clear paths. Point-to-point wireless is more robust over longer distances. Cat 6 cabled extension is the most reliable and cheapest in the long run. We'll survey and recommend.

Do you provide guest WiFi networks?

Yes, segregated guest networks with captive portal (terms and conditions splash page), bandwidth limits, time-of-day controls, and full firewall isolation from staff networks. Increasingly required for retail, hospitality, healthcare waiting areas and any client-facing space.

How do you secure a business WiFi network?

Segmented VLANs for corporate, guest, IoT and voice traffic, so a compromised device on one network cannot reach another. WPA3 encryption where the client devices support it, WPA2 alongside it where older kit still needs it. For staff networks we can authenticate against your existing directory with RADIUS and 802.1X, so people sign in with their own credentials rather than a shared password that leaves with every departing employee. Guest access runs through a captive portal with bandwidth limits and full firewall isolation.

What's the difference between consumer and business WiFi?

Three differences. First, capacity. Business APs handle 50 to 100+ concurrent devices each; consumer routers struggle past 25. Second, manageability, business kit gives you central management, monitoring, reporting and roaming optimisation; consumer kit gives you a router admin page. Third, lifecycle. Business APs run 5 to 8 years on the same firmware track; consumer kit hits end-of-life inside three.

Services/WiFi Installation

Business, Office & Garden Office

WiFi
Installation.

A WiFi network where every room has a strong signal, every device stays connected on the move, and the IT team gets sensible reporting on what's going on. CoreComms designs and installs WiFi for businesses, large offices, schools, healthcare sites and home garden offices across the North West and West Yorkshire, Ubiquiti, Cisco, Aruba and Ruckus, properly surveyed and properly cabled.

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PROFESSIONAL WIFI

Professional WiFi Installation for Business & Home.

Most WiFi problems trace back to one of three things: not enough access points, access points in the wrong places, or consumer-grade kit trying to do a business-grade job. None of those get fixed by buying a bigger router.

Our process starts with a survey, picks the right hardware for the building, and ends with a network that works as well in year three as it does on day one.

The team has fifty-plus years of combined experience and we've installed across Trafford Park, Wellington Place, Liverpool's Commercial District and the Aire Valley industrial belt. Plus countless smaller offices, GP practices, dental surgeries, schools and homes between them.

WHAT WE INSTALL

Business WiFi Installation.

Office WiFi

Single-floor and multi-storey buildings, surveyed properly and cabled to Cat 6 or Cat 6a, because Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 access points push more than a 1Gb uplink can comfortably carry.

Warehouse & Industrial

Industrial-grade APs (Ubiquiti UAP-Industrial, Cisco IW-series, Aruba 500-series) in hardened enclosures, mounted to structure rather than dangling from the ceiling.

Retail & Hospitality

Guest network with captive portal and analytics, plus PCI-DSS-compliant segmentation between guest, staff and till networks. SSID, VLAN and firewall rules kept clean.

School & University

BYOD-heavy WiFi with safeguarding integration, exam-hall networking and high-density coverage for lecture theatres, classrooms and breakout spaces.

Healthcare

Clinical, staff and guest networks properly segmented, with verified coverage to clinical work areas for safety-critical wireless devices.

Garden Office

Mesh, point-to-point wireless bridge or armoured Cat 6 cabled extension, solving the work-from-home garden studio problem with the right tool, not the cheapest.

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MULTI-FLOOR DESIGN

Office & Multi-Floor WiFi.

Multi-floor offices are where the survey work pays for itself. Stairwells, lift shafts, between-floor signal bleed, and asymmetric demand patterns (busy floor 4, quiet floor 2) all need to be planned for at design stage rather than discovered after install.

Typical multi-floor design:

One AP per 100 to 150 m² for typical office density, more for high-density meeting rooms

Channel planning across floors to avoid co-channel interference between vertical neighbours

Roaming optimisation so a user moving down stairs holds their connection

Dedicated bandwidth for video conferencing rooms

Guest network that genuinely segregates from staff data

Capacity-led, not coverage-led

We use a predictive WiFi survey tool at design stage and verify with on-site measurement after install, see our WiFi survey services.

WORK-FROM-HOME

Garden Office WiFi.

The work-from-home boom left a lot of people with a garden studio that the house WiFi can't reach. Three credible solutions, picked by what the site actually needs:

Budget

Mesh WiFi

Extends house WiFi by hopping between nodes; works for short distances and unobstructed paths. Cheapest of the three.

Mid-range

Point-to-Point Wireless

Directional radios mounted on the house and on the garden office, giving a stable wireless link. Robust over longer distances.

Most reliable

Cat 6 Cabled Extension

Armoured Cat 6 buried or run discreetly to the garden office, with an access point at the far end. Most reliable and cheapest in the long run.

HARDWARE WE INSTALL

Hardware We Install.

Hardware choice depends on size, budget, and what your IT team can support. We're not tied to any one brand and recommend by use case. Where each one fits:

SMB & mid-market default

Ubiquiti

UniFi range, strong price-to-performance. UDM-Pro / UDM-SE security gateway, UniFi switches, U6/U7/AC-HD access points. Cloud or self-hosted controller. Increasingly the default where Cisco and Aruba's price points are hard to justify.

Enterprise & Meraki cloud

Cisco

Catalyst, Meraki and the wider Cisco wireless portfolio. Right answer where the wider IT estate is already Cisco, where you need enterprise-grade RF management, or where the IT team is Cisco-trained. Meraki is the easier cloud-managed on-ramp.

Education, hospitality, retail

Aruba

HPE Aruba Instant On for SMB, Aruba CX for enterprise. Particularly strong RF performance and security tooling. Common across education, hospitality and retail estates.

High-density specialist

Ruckus

CommScope Ruckus access points. Strong in high-density environments (lecture theatres, conference centres, retail) where the proprietary BeamFlex antenna design earns its place. Higher cost but capable.

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PLANNING

Coverage Mapping & Planning.

Predictive WiFi planning at design stage means you don't pay for too few or too many access points. We use planning software (Hamina, Ekahau, NetSpot) to model the building, place virtual APs, and predict signal strength, channel utilisation and capacity. The output is a heatmap, AP placement plan, and bill of materials.

Where the building is complex (multi-floor, glass walls, heavy steel) we'll do an on-site survey too, walking with a measurement kit, checking actual signal vs predicted. Detailed in our WiFi site surveys page.

Hamina · Ekahau · NetSpot

WHERE WE INSTALL

Service Areas.

Liverpool

WiFi installation across Liverpool City Centre, the Wirral, Bootle, Crosby and the wider Merseyside patch, from city-centre offices to manufacturing in Knowsley and clinical sites across the city.WiFi installation in Liverpool

Manchester

Trafford Park, Salford, Stockport, Altrincham, Didsbury, Chorlton and the wider Greater Manchester area. Office buildings around Spinningfields, Trafford Park warehouses, and healthcare across the conurbation.WiFi installation in Manchester

Leeds

Leeds City Centre, Wellington Place, South Bank, plus Wakefield, Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield. Mainly office fit-outs and education, with growing demand from clinical practices.WiFi installation in Leeds

WIFI FAQS

WiFi FAQs.

Book a free WiFi consultation.

Send us the floor plan or postcode and we'll come for a survey. Free consultation, fixed-price quote, install in weeks rather than months.

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Same working day response · Free site survey · Fixed-price quote

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