Networks for Lahore's farmhouses

The farmhouse problem

The Bedian, Barki and Raiwind farmhouse belts sit on land, not plots. A typical property has a main house, often a guest house, wide lawns, staff quarters and a gate a long way from the buildings — and it is far enough from the city that incoming connectivity is weaker and dead zones are the rule rather than the exception. An event on the lawn needs reliable Wi-Fi; a distant gate and long boundary need cameras; and the whole estate has to work as one. This is The Estate engagement. For the incoming line, we use CIR links from the major networks where they reach the property; where fibre is thin, the best available option is designed at the survey.

What usually needs solving here

The work runs from the main house out to the guest house, the lawns and the gate: coverage over distance, cameras along a long boundary and at a remote gate, a network that holds through an event, and power resilience far from the grid. Mehndi on the lawn, Nani watching live from Toronto, no buffering.

Solutions that apply

We build links between buildings, whole-home Wi-Fi scaled to the grounds, the network backbone and integrated cameras. Equipment we specify includes Ubiquiti and TP-Link (Omada) for Wi-Fi and building-to-building links, Dahua for cameras and MikroTik for routing. Load-shedding is a Lahore tradition; going offline doesn’t have to be — see staying online through load-shedding.

Getting there

Our Gulberg office serves the farmhouse belts; travel and coverage are scoped at the survey.