WiFi installation in Dungannon, farm to factory floor.

Dungannon sits on a hill above the drumlin country that runs out towards Coalisland, Moygashel and the shore of Lough Neagh, and most of the homes and farms out that way are on single-track lanes with hedgerows on both sides and no broadband cabinet for a mile or more. A single router rarely reaches the yard, the shed or the second building, so we plan outdoor access points and point-to-point links that carry a signal across open ground to wherever it is actually needed, whether that is a calving shed, a workshop or a static caravan.

The town itself has a strong food and agri-business base, with processing plants and cold stores around the Coalisland Road and Moygashel, alongside smaller engineering and joinery units. These buildings are usually steel-framed with metal racking, chillers and machinery that eat into a wireless signal fast, so we run cabled access points to fixed points on the production floor and the warehouse rather than trying to cover the whole building from one corner. Offices above the yard get their own access point and a guest network for visiting hauliers and contractors.

• Outdoor and point-to-point links for farms and outbuildings on rural lanes
• Cabled access points for food processing units and cold stores
• Mesh WiFi for homes on the edge of town and in new estates
• Heat-mapped survey to find dead spots before any kit is fitted

Power and distance are the two things that decide a lot of rural jobs here. A farmyard might have three or four buildings spread across an acre, with the router sitting in the farmhouse and nothing reaching the far shed. An outdoor point-to-point link, aimed between two buildings, carries the network across that gap without trenching a cable across a field, and where mains power is not available at the far end a solar-fed unit can keep it running.

In the town centre and the newer estates off the Ballygawley Road and the Moy Road, the job is more straightforward: mesh WiFi through two or three rooms with a guest network for visitors. What still matters is the survey. Heat-mapping shows exactly where a signal drops before any equipment is bought, so a shop, a farmhouse or a cold store all get a system sized to the building rather than a one-size router picked off a shelf.

A survey pins it down precisely, but this is the general pattern around Dungannon.