Open the window, and the Harbour Bridge and Opera House are right there.
On Sydney's lower north shore at McMahons Point, this is a highly private full-floor waterfront apartment with multiple suites and generous living spaces, looking straight onto the Harbour Bridge and Opera House.
Homes with this location and view are conservatively valued at over RMB 100 million in today's Sydney market — the kind of property that rarely changes hands.
A returning client, by choice
The owner's previous apartment had two complex network faults, both resolved by our team on site. Trusting our technical skill and concierge-style service, the owner asked us again to survey and upgrade this property. Everything was handled in Mandarin, so requirements were clear from the start.
A view like no other —
yet the signal couldn't get through a wall.
Site survey
Yesterday's flagship, today's bottleneck
The home was running a top-of-the-range router from seven or eight years ago. It was expensive at the time, but its standards are long outdated for today's HD streaming and can't carry the bandwidth a home this size needs.
What was holding the network back
- 01“Premium” kit that had agedA flagship router from years ago can't deliver the bandwidth and coverage a large apartment needs today.
- 02Walls that block everythingSolid double-brick walls and premium sound insulation created serious dead zones across the many rooms.
- 03Strict no-works rulesNo modern network cabling had ever been installed, and to protect the luxury finishes, no drilling or surface cabling was allowed.
Not the most expensive — the right fit
With no cabling and no drilling allowed, we ruled out traditional wired solutions. Rather than push overpowered, expensive gear, we matched the home's actual NBN speed and went with the owner to a nearby electronics store to choose a new multi-node mesh system with the right coverage and value.
Nodes hidden within the floor plan
Working with the apartment's layout and many rooms, our engineer placed nodes discreetly in hallways, near door frames and beside art pieces, using open spaces to form an “invisible relay path” that avoids the thickest solid load-bearing walls.
Every room walked, every device reconnected
With the nodes in place, we ran thorough whole-home roaming tests and tuning, then reconnected the household's devices to the new network so connections hold as you move between rooms.
