Structured networking
Home networks and cabinets
One tidy cabinet, everything patched and labelled, and a network that doesn't need restarting.
- Hampshire-based engineers
- Fixed-price quotes
- Setup & handover included
Once you have cameras, access points, a TV, a games console and a home office on the same connection, a plug-in router and a pile of adaptors stops coping.
We build the network around the house properly: a small cabinet, a switch with power over Ethernet, patched and labelled so anyone can work out what's what in five years' time.
Typically
- Small cabinet
- 6U wall-mounted
- Typical switch
- 8–24 port PoE
- Time on site
- One to three days
Included
What you get
- Network cabinet in a loft, cupboard or garage
- PoE switch sized for the access points and cameras
- Patch panel with every socket labelled to the room
- Separate networks for cameras, smart home and family devices
- Router configuration and port forwarding where needed
- A printed diagram of what's plugged in where
Not included
What we don't do
- Business server or domain work
- Support for equipment we didn't install
The job
How this one runs
01
Plan
Where the cabinet goes and how many sockets each room needs.
02
First fix
Cable pulled before plaster where the house is being worked on.
03
Second fix
Faceplates, patch panel, switch, tested and certified.
04
Handover
Labelled diagram, network details, and a walk round the house.
Often booked with
Recent work
From our projects
Winchester, Hampshire
Making Starlink work across the whole property
Starlink relocated to the main house, existing UniFi Wi-Fi equipment reused, and the son's flat and garage connected wirelessly — without digging up the driveway.
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Warsash, Hampshire
Building a smart home that works as one system
A one-acre property where the brief was simply 'what could we do to make the house smart?' — so we started with the infrastructure, not the gadgets.
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Cosham, Hampshire
A security-first network for a connected home
A Portsmouth home where an ISP router and consumer mesh kit were replaced with a segmented UniFi network, ten cameras, plate-recognition gate access and gigabit fibre.
Read the case study →From a customer
“Highly recommended — exceptional service and support”
We have used ARK Home to manage and support virtually all of our home technology requirements, and I cannot recommend them highly enough.
They have installed and continue to maintain our personal IT systems, supplied and installed a monitored alarm system, and, most importantly, finally resolved the Wi-Fi problems we had struggled with for years. They also took over our internet service and upgraded us from what had previously been a very slow and unreliable connection to a significantly faster and more dependable service.
Next step
Tell us what you want installing — or what's stopped working
Send us a note about the property and what you're trying to fix. We'll tell you what's involved, what it costs, and whether it needs a survey or just a repair call-out.