Wireless Solutions for the Bay Area

Home Wireless Solutions

SF WiFi serves customers in the hospitality, SMB, and hotspot markets. But what about home office wireless solutions? SF WiFi is pleased to officially announce we now support the home wireless market. We have found many commonalities among the demands of our industrial, hospitality, and residential clients. Therefore it only stands to reason that we expand our support to include homeowners.

Common Client Specifics:

  1. Wireless signal drops out at various rooms in the house.
  2. Client works from home and needs wireless signal delivered throughout the property versus having it delivered to only one or two rooms.
  3. Limited access to run new Cat 5 cables.
  4. Residents use three or more wireless devices, laptops, printers, PDA’s, iDevice docking station concurrently.
  5. Multiple complications arise in interior coverage issues artificially created by the residences’ interior walls, tiles, mirrors, granite, multiple floors, etc.
  6. A friend is a wiz with computers and has rigged a not so inexpensive network solution which only works like my brother in law – sporadically. (Okay, I threw that one in. But does it sound sadly familiar?)

Monster Home to Happy Home:

SF WiFi has serviced homes in San Francisco and the Peninsula that did not receive quality signal coverage. The owners had spent time and hundreds of dollars outfitting their homes with inefficient wireless equipment. We’ve heard it all from trying numerous repeaters, running bits of cable, and moving access points. They’ve basically have tried everything short of wiring up the kitchen sink. Needless to say, none of these methods provided a reliable solution. We admit, clients always seem skeptical when they first meet us. Their usual cry for help is, “We’ve tried everything.” But after working with us we usually hear “Why didn’t I call you sooner!”

 Process:

As a special service SF WiFi provides a free site survey to all our customers. We have found this survey helps us determine signal coverage, design access point placement, and client application needs while at the same time saves the client money. We then submit a proposal outlining our design, equipment, and installation costs.

 Final Note:

What are you really looking for in a wireless network? If it’s great coverage, reliability, stable throughput, no dropouts, and ease of use then join the long list of customers SF WiFi has satisfied over the years. Our success rate is 100%–just ask us for our referrals. We can provide your happy home a reliable wireless network so you can get the work done while listening to Pandora by the patio pool.

Project: Parker Guest House wireless

The Parker Guest House is the top rated bed and breakfast accommodation in San Francisco’s Castro/Noe Valley and Mission Dolores Districts.
The Parker House commissioned SF WiFi to design and install their new wireless network. This project entails saturating the property with signal for guest rooms, common areas, dining areas and outdoor gardens. Our wireless solution provides superior coverage, ease of use management features to seamlessly support today’s mobile user. SF WiFi specializes in hospitality wireless solutions and has designed, installed and supports wireless in 6 of the top 25 Bay Area TripAdvisor ranked hotels.
Property:
Two 1909 Edwardian mini-mansions with 21 guest rooms and extensive gardens located in San Francisco’s vibrant Castro District.
Outdoor area

Outdoor area

Apartment Wireless Project

The El Rey Apartments located in San Rafael were constructed in 1929. Similar to many San Francisco apartment buildings of the era, it is of the Mediterranean Revival architectural style. It is known as Marin’s first luxury apartment building. The architects of this handsome structure focused on the fine details, including the ornate lobby, decorative exterior molding and ceramic tile roof.

The property owners commissioned SF WiFi to design and install their new wireless network. This project entailed saturating the property with signal for tenant apartments and common areas. Our wireless solution provides superior coverage, ease of use management features to seamlessly support today’s mobile user.

4ipnet WHG311 Secure WLAN Controller & EAP110 Access

The combination of 4ipnet’s WHG311 Secure WLAN  Controller and EAP110 Access Points offers an attractive solution for small venues. WHG311’s local, site-to-site, and remote client VPN tunnels can be used to secure the flow of business information for workers on the road or home-based teleworkers, without the need for workers
to preinstall any VPN client software. 4ipnet’s EAP110. Access Points can be distributed through multiple network locations as if they are under the same internal network via secure tunneling technology.

Eight 10/100/1000 Base-T RJ-45 LAN ports
Recommended max of 150 concurrent users
Up to 10 site-to-site VPN links
Cloud-based tunneled-AP management of up to 30

4ipnet 802.11n access points
Encrypted Gigabit throughput
Creative deployment flexibility for both local and
remote networks

Best For: Small-scale deployments such as branch
offices and airport terminals.

http://www.sf-wifi.com/blog/store/4ipnet/

Security Cameras – Priceless

San Francisco: Suspect held in Picasso theft; artwork unharmed.

(cut to the excerpt on security cameras):
The gallery had no security camera, but Lefty O’Doul’s restaurant down the street did. Its footage showed a man in a dark jacket, light-colored slacks, loafers and no socks walking west on Geary with a framed artwork under his left arm, partly obscured by a newspaper

Read article:

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/n-j-man-held-in-picasso-theft-artwork-unharmed-2355514.php

Project: Wireless – 360 Residences

360 Residences Wireless Project

Conveniently located in downtown San Jose, the 360 Residences deemed it necessary to accommodate it technologically savvy clientele with wireless networking. SF WiFi was commissioned to design and install this new network for the impressive glass tower’s recreational and business areas.

Our designer recognized this network needed to

• Stable enough to support a high capacity of users
• Provide exceptional signal coverage throughout the building’s rooms and pool area
• and contain ease of use features.

These features are very important since the average person will use multiple wireless devices (mobile phones and computers) simultaneously. After installation our technicians measured the network’s stability and ensured it was seamless, reliable, and secure.

Soaring 23 story high rise above the SoFa district, the grand architecture and sweeping glass tower dramatically redefines the San Jose skyline.

Check out this link to a video of the property. The wireless network covers the pool, fitness and patio areas of the apartments. These areas can be seen starting at the one minute mark of the video. We were so impressed with the aerial shots and model rendering of the 23 story high rise that the SF WiFi marketing department thought we should share this with you. Enjoy.

SF WiFi provides wireless to over one million Hotel guests annually.
Our clients include 6 of the top 25 bay area Trip Advisor Ranked Hotels. Our Clients range from 10 unit apartments to 18 story, 300 room hotels.

Project: Travelodge Presidio Wireless

The Travelodge San Francisco at the Presidio is located in a quiet area of San Francisco, just half a block from the Presidio National Recreation Area East Gate. With its central location near the Golden Gate Bridge and Downtown San Francisco, the Travelodge at the Presidio is a charming place to stay while exploring the City by the Bay.
The Travelodge commissioned SF WiFi to design and install their new wireless network. This project entails saturating the property with signal for guest rooms and common areas. Our wireless solution provides superior coverage, ease of use management features to seamlessly support today’s mobile user. SF WiFi specializes in hospitality wireless solutions and has designed, installed and supports wireless in 6 of the top 25 Bay Area TripAdvisor ranked hotels.

SF WiFi Project: San Francisco Coffee House Security Camera Installation

Scope of work:
Owners required security cameras and recording with DVR for customer safety and to monitor activities
Wired security Camera installation
Easy remote access via any web browser, iPhone and mobile devices

Features:
Network cameras allow customer to keep an eye on the business
Remote viewing in real time from any internet or mobile device
Video recording is also stored on DVR disk for later viewing.
Indoor and outdoor solutions
DVR recording options: Always on, timed or motion detection. Simple playback.
Cameras:  Dome, Pedestal and Bullet cameras. Wired or wireless.
Secure a greater area with pan and tilt controls side-to-side up-and-down

SF WiFi is a IT consultant company specializing in Hospitality wireless. Wireless networking brought us into the wired and wireless CCTV camera installations and support. We also offer IT support to servers, pc’s, NAS, remote access, backup solutions etc.

About us: www.sf-wifi.com

CCTV Coffeehouse