Licensed Electricians · Tinley Park, IL
UniFi Network Installation in Tinley Park
A mesh puck in the hallway is not a network. Proper coverage means access points mounted where the house actually needs them, each fed by its own cable — so the back bedroom gets the same speed as the living room instead of a share of whatever the last hop managed to carry.
Tinley Park is not one housing stock, and for a network job that is the whole story. The brick ranches and split-levels through the older sections — the streets either side of Oak Park Avenue, the blocks that went up before the village spread west — have plaster and lath in places. Plaster kills a wi-fi signal in a way drywall never does, and no amount of expensive hardware in the front room fixes it. What fixes it is a cable and an access point on the other side of the wall.
The newer subdivisions toward 80th Avenue and over the Will County line are a different problem with the same answer. Those are drywall and open plan, so the signal travels — it just runs out of road. A single router at one end of a long house leaves the far bedrooms on one bar, and a basement finished after the fact usually gets nothing at all.
If you'd rather talk it through first, call (708) 407-3559 — quotes are free, and we'll tell you if you don't need the work.
What these jobs look like around Tinley Park
- Older brick homes near the centre of the village where plaster walls stop the signal cold
- Split-levels where the lower floor is effectively a separate coverage problem
- Newer builds toward 80th Avenue that are simply too long for one router
- Finished basements that were never in the original signal's reach
- Home offices that want a wired drop rather than a third extender
What's included
- A walk of the house first, with a phone that measures instead of guesses
- Cat6 run back to one central point — attic, basement or utility closet
- Access points mounted for coverage, not for whatever wall was easiest
- UniFi gateway and PoE switch, mounted tidily and labelled
- Wired drops for the things that shouldn't be wireless: office, TVs, cameras
- Network named, secured and handed over with the passwords written down
When it's worth doing
- One room where video calls always drop, and it's always the same room
- An extender that helped a little and never really solved it
- A basement that finished nicely and gets no signal at all
- Working from home on wi-fi that sags every afternoon
- Adding cameras and not wanting them fighting for the same airspace
Common questions
My house has plaster walls — is that the problem?
Very likely, yes. Plaster over lath, especially with the old wire mesh behind it, is close to a shield as far as wi-fi is concerned. It's why older Tinley Park homes so often have one room that never works. The fix isn't a stronger router; it's an access point on the far side of the wall, fed by cable.
Do you have to tear the house apart to run cable?
No. Most runs go up through the attic or along the basement ceiling and drop down an interior wall. In an older home with tight or awkward framing we'll tell you before we start where a run would mean real patching, and offer the alternative rather than surprising you halfway through.
How many access points will I need?
Two or three covers most homes here. In an older plaster house it's driven by walls, in a newer one by distance. We'd rather place two properly than sell you four.
Can you cover the garage or the yard?
Usually. An access point rated for the outdoors under the eaves handles a patio or driveway. Detached garages need their own feed, which is worth pricing separately.
Get a free quote in Tinley Park
Serving Tinley Park and the surrounding southwest suburbs, covering Cook and Will County. Call (708) 407-3559 or email sparkntechllc@gmail.com.
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