We have a hotel client in San Francisco supporting wireless at their 16 story/120 room property. In the past year alone we have seen their guest wireless usage increase to more than double.

In 2011 we would see stats of 20-25 users passing 8GB of data. We now see 80 concurrently connected devices, passing 25-40GB of data a day. That’s practically a four fold increase of data in just a little over a year and these numbers are consistent across all our wireless hotel clients.

Our Take on Wireless Trending:
User capacity increases: mobile device driven
Bandwidth usage increases: video driven
Cell phone offloading: hasn’t occurred too much, this is the next trend
Coverage: everywhere. WiFi is not just in the lobby anymore
User expectations: system uptime, stability, ease of use, free
Customer expectations: coverage, stability, support WMM (data voice video),
Management features: simple dashboard view of system and usage stats.

Services including wireless design, installation and support. A wireless network will bring customers into a place of business and may lead them to choose one place of business over another. We can provide a simple wireless solution for Hotels, Apartment Buildings, Coffee Houses, Hospitality Wireless or any other application.

We begin with a FREE wireless site survey to understand the layout and coverage specifics of your location. We will then provide you a quote for equipment and installation costs. And of course we offer support after installation is complete.

We can boast that we have installed and support wireless systems in 6 of the top 25 ranked Trip Advisor hotels. We also have several apartment wireless clients in the bay area.

We also offer Hot Spot wireless installations and support. Hot Spot Gateway devices. 24/7 Support services

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Apartment Wireless

 The Majestic Hotel contacted us about installing a more powerful and efficient wireless network than their existing system. They had been using a legacy wireless solution that had many issues including proper signal coverage. As a result, guests’ computers were constantly dropping off the Internet. This was causing the hotel to lose guests and lose revenue so they contacted SF WiFi to propose a guest wireless network solution for the 33,000 square foot property and we were awarded the project.

Hotel Overview

The Hotel Majestic was constructed in 1902 and is San Francisco’s oldest continuously operating hotel. With distinctive French bay windows, Edwardian styling with vintage architectural details and adorned with French and English antiques. The Majestic not only offers guest the gracious traditions of yesteryear but also provides the guest with all the modern essentials of today.

 Hotel Specs: The property consists of 5 floors, 58 rooms, café bar and restaurant and 2 meeting rooms. Guests were complaining that the wireless coverage was limited, connections and performance was erratic. Adding additional Wi-Fi access points (APs) was not an option because there was no way to extend ethernet cabling throughout the property. The Majestic needed an innovative solution that would satisfy customers without disrupting business or breaking their capital budget.

 SF WiFi gets the call – Project Requirements:

• Wireless coverage throughout the entire hotel
• Minimize the number of access points
• Minimize, mitigate RF interference
• Install AP’s where Ethernet can’t reach
• Centralized and simplified management
• Reduce install times
• Self-configuring, self-tuning adaptive wireless
• Reliable and stable with no support calls
• Consistent performance

Project credits:
Denise Leong – Marketing

SF WiFi solution:

To work around and to minimize the need for additional ethernet cabling we designed a wireless mesh network. Under normal circumstances ethernet cabling is required for all conventional wireless equipment. The SF WiFi design solution implements a WLAN managed mesh network to extend wireless coverage into difficult areas. This design limited the amount of cable required, reduced costs and simplified the installation.   

Benefits:

• Reduced capital costs by eliminating the need to run ethernet
• Dependable Wi-Fi signal quality
• Single Wi-Fi solution for entire hotel
• Mesh design simplified AP placement (product feature)
• Automatic interference avoidance (product feature)
• Automatic failover and resiliency (product feature)
• Wi-Fi coverage with fewer APs (product feature)
• Utilized Power over Ethernet
• One third the cost of “other” wireless product solutions