Wi-Fi and network installation in San Bruno

Old railroad-town blocks and postwar hillside tracts. San Mateo County, California.

Homes in San Bruno

San Bruno began around a railroad station and incorporated in 1914, mainly so the streets could be paved. The early town holds the oldest houses, which tend to be smaller and closer together. After World War II the city spread in a run of new subdivisions: Mills Park, Rollingwood and Crestmoor in the late 1940s and 1950s, finishing with Skyline Park, the last Crestmoor subdivision, in 1966 and 1967.

Those tracts are mostly single-family houses, often on sloping streets with the garage under the living floor. The Shelter Creek condominiums add attached housing. The Bayshore Freeway opened in 1947 and Interstates 280 and 380 followed in the late 1960s, which is why the city reads as bands of housing from different decades.

A stagecoach stop and then a station on the San Francisco to San Jose railroad, San Bruno incorporated in 1914. Postwar subdivisions such as Rollingwood and Crestmoor filled in the rest of the city by the 1960s.

What that means for your Wi-Fi

Garage-level modems under the living space

On the hillside tracts the service often lands in the garage, a floor below the rooms you use. We bring Cat6 up to ceiling access points on the main level so the signal starts where you are.

Older houses in the original town

The early houses tend to have smaller rooms and denser walls than the postwar tracts. Two modest access points wired through the crawl space usually beat one powerful router in the front room.

Condo living means many overlapping networks

At Shelter Creek and similar complexes we work within your own unit. In-wall access points on wired runs and careful channel tuning keep your network steady among all the others.

Around San Bruno

The Shops at Tanforan: The mall stands on the site of Tanforan Racetrack, which operated from 1899 until a fire in 1964.
Capuchino High School: The high school opened on September 11, 1950, during the city's postwar wave of new subdivisions.

Questions about Wi-Fi in San Bruno

My modem is in the garage under the house. Can you fix the Wi-Fi?

Yes. On San Bruno's hillside tracts the service often lands in the garage, a floor below the rooms you use. We bring Cat6 up to ceiling access points on the main level, so the signal starts where you are.

What works best for Wi-Fi in an older San Bruno house?

Usually two modest access points rather than one powerful router. The early houses tend to have smaller rooms and denser walls than the postwar tracts. We wire the access points through the crawl space where the house has one.

Can you install wired access points in a Shelter Creek condo?

Yes, working within your own unit. We use in-wall access points on wired runs and careful channel tuning, which keeps your network steady among all the others in the complex.