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Home Networking

Creating a home network is one of the best investments you can ever have. It allows you to connect your computer, television, gaming system, printers, tablets, and wireless phones via the Internet.

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Tue 8 Aug, 2023

Home Networking

Creating a home network is one of the best investments you can ever have. It allows you to connect your computer, television, gaming system, printers, tablets, and wireless phones via the Internet.

Different people have different approaches to home networking. Some may prefer wired networks, while others will go with wireless connections. However, as is the case most of the time, you will have a hybrid type of connection.

Wireless connections are good because they give you immense flexibility on how you go about adding devices to your home network. With a modem and a router, you are set to connect as many devices as the router can support.

Setting up a good and reliable home network allows you to enjoy endless entertaining possibilities and workability. As you enjoy world-class audio from your home theatre, the CCTV system records every activity around the home to keep you safe. You can engage experts such as PowerHouseAV when you need to build a high-performance audio and video solution for your home.

What is home networking?

Home networking refers to interconnecting your devices such as game systems, computers, mobile devices, and smartphones, among others. These devices connect with each other and to the Internet.

When you talk about a home network, you always look at it from two angles:

  • Wired network – The physical interconnection of devices using scanners and printers using cables
  • Wireless network – The interconnection of devices without using cables. In most cases, you would use Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and any other wireless technology.

Importance of a reliable home network

There are many reasons why you may want to invest in a reliable home network. These include:

Build a smart home

Most people are normally hyped by the concept of a smart home and its potential. Imagine walking in the house, and the door opens on its own without touching it. Or you instruct the sound system to play your favorite song while the AC unit regulates temperature according to the outside environmental factors. You cannot achieve all these if you do not have a home network in the first place. That’s because a smart home requires the interconnection of devices – home monitors, lights, door locks, surveillance, and sound systems.

Avoid fights between family members

Siblings often find any reason to fight. However, nothing can cause serious discord, like devices failing to work because too many people are connected. When you have a reliable home network, your family will not fight over small details such as who is kicking the other off the Internet.

Make the most of streaming services

Video streaming continues to gain an all-time high following and is hugely customized to meet the needs of a regular home user. Whether Amazon Prime, Hulu, or Netflix, you can comfortably use these services with a reliable home network. It ensures your favorite movie runs smoothly without screen freezing.

Save data

Cellular data is expensive when you need to use it for streaming services. When you create a stable home network, it becomes possible to use Wi-Fi on your mobile devices and not data. That allows you to surf the Internet, make video calls, and play online games without worrying about recharging depleted cellular data.

Facilitate work from home

Work from home has become the new way in which people get things done. Gone are the days when you had to travel all the way to the office, kilometers away. However, if you do not have a reliable home network, you may suffer a major setback in productivity. Imagine video meetings that keep buffering or dropping due to a poor network. Or a group sharing platform that fails to update in real-time. When you build a good home network, you can work better, be more productive, and accomplish more tasks.

Basic requirements for a home network

As you build your home network, you will need the following items:

  • A good Internet service subscription
  • A router on which the ISP feeds Internet connection and also creates wireless signals in the home
  • Devices such as home theatres, computers, smartphones, among others, interconnect via the Wi-Fi setup.

We can handle your home network needs.

As you work around connecting to the Internet and accessing your core equipment like surveillance systems from anywhere, the need for a secure home network cannot be ignored.

At PowerHouseAV, you can count on us to make sure that your network is properly installed and secured. We gather all your setup requirements to build a network that delivers as expected and does not compromise on security.

Customer Testimonials

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I am very impressed with the service and quality of PowerHouseAV. In addition to installing several security cameras they also implemented an audio system with connections to two televisions and synced it with my Alexa to allow for voice command. Very cool!

David from Virginia
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I can't recommend them highly enough. They're super responsive, offered very clear and detailed explanations of the proposed work,  arrived on time, came back to make sure everything was properly calibrated, and left the room back the way they'd found it.

Yochi from Washington DC
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PowerhouseAV wired all three levels of my home for ethernet, installed high-end ceiling speakers in my office, fixed my outdoor and family room speakers, got my home entertainment system untangled and onto a single remote, and installed blazing fast wifi throughout my house.

Steve from Alexandria, VA
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Aomed and his team was top notch and professional. They provided a fair quote and walked us through the whole process for our office AV upgrade. Whats even better is the support. We had an issue with some hardware which was not the fault of Powerhouse AV and they made sure to fix the issue and make sure we were happy. I highly recommend Aomed and his team at Powerhouse AV. We will definitely use them again!

Dennis from Woodbridge, VA
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Whoa! That was my reaction when I was able to fire up my TVs, control/stream music in 5 different areas, all from one device.  That device can be my phone, table, computer, or a dedicated remote.  Other people in your home can do the same [at the same time] if you give them access.  Another plus, I don't see anything sticking out from around the TVs or from where the sound comes from.  It's definitely cool from an aesthetics perspective, and cool in how it operates.

- Elie from Miami, FL

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