Point to point, Starlink, 4G and 5G for the sites the network was never designed to cover. Farms, campsites, marinas, compounds and everything at the end of a long track.
An office network is a solved problem. You order a circuit, you design coverage for a floor plan, you are done. A remote site is a different job: the constraint is not bandwidth, it is that there is nothing to plug into, and no one on site when it stops.
So the questions change. Is there line of sight, and will there still be one when the trees are in leaf? Is there power, or does this need to run on a panel and a battery through January? And if it fails on a Sunday, who finds out?
If your site is on this list, or looks like something on this list, we have almost certainly connected one.
The survey is the part that decides whether this works. Everything after it is execution.
A wireless bridge from a building that has a circuit to one that never will. Often the cheapest answer by a distance, and once the kit is in there is no second line rental.
For sites where there is genuinely nothing. Fast to stand up and fast in use, with the sky-view and congestion caveats stated up front.
Quick to deploy, easy to move, and the right answer for temporary sites. Bonded or failed over where a single connection is not good enough on its own.
Bring one good circuit in and distribute it, rather than paying line rental into every outbuilding. Segmented so the guest network cannot see the office.
Solar and battery for links, cameras and gates where there is no mains. Sized for the worst month of the year, which is why it keeps running in January.
A depot nobody visits can be offline for a week before it is mentioned. We monitor the link and usually see degradation before the outage.
Usually one of three. A wireless bridge, if there is a line of sight to a building that does have a circuit, which is often the cheapest and fastest option and has no monthly cost beyond the kit. Satellite, which now means Starlink for most sites and works almost anywhere with a clear view of the sky. Or 4G and 5G, which is quick to deploy and can be bonded or failed over for resilience. Which one is right is a survey question, not a catalogue question.
Kilometres, given clear line of sight. Distance is rarely the limit; obstruction is. Trees are the usual culprit, and trees grow, so a link surveyed in winter can degrade by summer. We do a proper path survey including height, obstructions and seasonal growth, rather than standing in a field with a pair of binoculars and hoping.
For a lot of remote sites, yes, and it has changed what is possible on places that had nothing. It is genuinely fast and quick to stand up. The honest caveats are that it needs a clear view of the sky, performance varies with congestion and weather, and the service terms differ between the consumer and business products. Where a site cannot tolerate an outage we pair it with a cellular failover rather than treating it as the only path.
Yes, and it is one of the most common jobs. An estate, a farm with outbuildings, a park with a reception and a clubhouse. Rather than paying for a circuit into each building, we bring one good circuit in and distribute it by wireless bridge or buried fibre, then treat the whole site as one network with proper segmentation between the parts that should not see each other.
Solar and battery. It is well-proven for cameras, gates, sensors and links, and the sizing is the whole job: panel and battery capacity have to survive a run of dull winter days, not an average one. We size for the worst month rather than the annual average, which is why our quotes are sometimes larger than the one that undersized it.
Yes, and remote sites are exactly where it matters. A link at a depot nobody visits daily can be down for a week before anyone mentions it. Monitoring means we see the failure, and often see the degradation before the failure, which on a wireless link usually means something has grown into the path.
A postcode or a pin on a map is enough to start. We will tell you whether line of sight is plausible before anyone drives anywhere.