Neat-O: Overhauling Massive Wireless Network
By Arlen Schweiger
Client's original wireless network was not holding its own with key control and distributed A/V functions. Eco High Fidelity had the daunting task of overhauling the system.

Clients need a robust home network system these days. Especially for coverage over a 10,000-square-foot house whose owner is requesting two separate, but equally bandwidth-intensive, networks.

Apparently one integrator was not quite up to the challenge, because Carrolton, Texas-based Eco High Fidelity had to answer the call to make the original project work properly - and then some.



“A client had a wireless network in his home that he wasn’t satisfied with,” says Eco High Fidelity lead technician Jonathan Hughes. “He wanted the ability to stream four Kaleidescape players simultaneously, needed Crestron control of a number of devices throughout the home and wanted to have a guest computer network that was separate from the main network. He also wanted control over what web sites various family members would have access to.”

The original wireless network installed was simply not holding its own with those key control and distributed A/V elements. The Kaleidescape server would lock up and constantly need resetting, according to Hughes, the Crestron TMPC-8X remotes were "useless," and there were several IP control issues.

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