The 10 Best Wiring Installers Near Me (with Free Estimates)

"game consoles and a plethora of smart home lights, security cameras, alarms, deadbolts, and a small army of Alexa-capable devices) all connected by both wired and wireless connections. Yeah, it's all wonderful, when the network holding it all together works consistently.The area behind my workbench looked like a rat's nest with all the NAS boxes, smart hubs, and wall warts plugged in to different power strips and cables running every direction. The NAS boxes and hubs also took up a LOT of space on my workbench and shelves. And to make things worse, some devices were connected to several 'Gigabit' ethernet switches, and some to mere 'Fast Ethernet' switches, that were then connected to other Gigabit ethernet switches. In effect, I paid a lot of money to buy fast equipment that I then slowed down by connecting it to old stuff. In case you hadn't figured it out yet, networks aren't my forte... I was beginning to have problems accessing the internet in certain areas because of conflicts with the new AlticeOne system... (which I got in an attempt to resolve wireless connectivity issues) but Optimum's tech support wasn't much help at all. In fact, I'm sure their configuration of my Altice mini box wireless extenders created many of the problems. In short, everything network-related in my home was a complete mess.Cut back to the PC and printer issue. Because of their location, I was relying on wireless connections to get the offending PC and printer to even talk to each other. But the signal dropped every few minutes and the PC could never locate the printer, which, because it couldn't find the PC either, kept going offline. It was horrible. I figured the best way to fix it was to run two new ethernet cables to provide direct connectivity. I used Thumbtack and was provided the names of several cabling and network companies. I selected a company named, 'Cables First' Why? I have no idea. But I'm glad I did. While we were talking over the details, Chris, the owner, asked me if I had a patch panel for the existing internet cables. Being a relative network neophyte (duh), I asked, "What is a patch panel?" When he explained what was and its usefulness in a network environment, I became fairly excited at the possibilities for improving my network situation beyond what I'd originally planned. Then, before we'd even settled on terms of the original work, Chris tried to get in touch with me about solving a specific network connectivity problem I mentioned having. He had his network engineer on a conference line and they were going to talk me through resolving my immediate problem. I was unavailable at the time he called, but I was impressed with his extra effort to help solve my problems. So I decided to ask Chris to help me straighten out my self-inflicted network problems.We worked together to design a wall mounted rack that would hold all my NAS and hub equipment, and then the true magic began. I was NOT looking forward to undoing the wiring mess that I had created over several years, but Chris said, "Don't touch anything, we'll sort it all out and get it put back together in perfect order..." And the short version of the story is... they did. Now my entire network is humming along perfectly, problems were solved that I didn't even know I had. And Chris and his guys went above and beyond the call to make sure everything was neat, well labeled, and in perfect working order. While we were troubleshooting the wired connection to my Onkyo receiver, the network engineer even helped straighten out the configuration errors I'd inadvertently created, and in the process fixed the sound problem I was having with my Rega Planar 3 turntable. Am I happy? In a word. Extremely."

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The 10 Best Wiring Installers Near Me (with Free Estimates)