Guest WiFi that survives check-in hour.
A lodge with dead WiFi gets one-star reviews. A marina without connectivity loses the cruising crowd. We build the guest and operations networks that keep remote hospitality businesses online — backhauled by tower or Starlink, designed for real traffic, not brochure numbers.
The common failure: a consumer router and a prayer.
Who this is for
Remote lodges and resorts, marinas, campgrounds and RV parks, and WISPs serving rural customers. The common problem: guests and staff expect city-grade connectivity in places where no carrier invested in it.
This is commercial work — it gets commercial design. We survey the property, model the traffic (peak guests, staff devices, point-of-sale, security cameras, operational systems), and build a network with enough backhaul and enough coverage to handle the worst hour of the worst day of the season.
What's in a build
Backhaul first. Every network is only as good as its pipe to the world. Options: a point-to-point link to a tower with real backhaul, or Starlink (or multiple Starlinks) where that's the honest answer. We size backhaul to your peak load, not your average — averages don't write reviews.
Distribution. Outdoor-rated access points on proper mounts — not indoor units zip-tied to a post — covering cabins, docks, common areas and offices. Cable runs buried or aerial where appropriate, weatherproofed for the coast.
Segmentation. Guest WiFi, staff network, operations network (POS, cameras, building systems) and management access, all separated. Guests should never see your office printer, and your POS terminal should never share airtime with fifty phones streaming video.
Power. Where the site is off-grid or unreliable, network power is designed alongside — see remote-site power. A network that dies with every outage isn't a network.
Field note — the ops network is the security network
Guest WiFi going down is a bad review. The ops network going down — cameras, gates, POS, alarms — is a security event, in peak season, with a full property. That's why the segmented operations network gets power designed alongside it, not as an afterthought. When the grid blinks in August, your cameras shouldn't.
Designed around your actual traffic
A 40-site campground at 8 p.m. on a long weekend is a different animal than the same campground on a Tuesday in October. We ask about your peak occupancy, your guest profile, what your staff run, and what breaks when the network chokes. Then we design to that peak, with headroom. Under-designed commercial networks fail exactly when you need them most — we've seen it, and we don't build them.
For WISPs
If you're a wireless ISP pushing into rural areas, you need subscriber installs, sector upgrades and backhaul done by people who've done carrier work. Ten years of tower builds for Telus, Rogers and others is the background — your subscribers get the same standard your upstream expects. Pair with tower maintenance to keep the plant healthy.
Coverage
Commercial coverage is the whole confirmed region: all of Vancouver Island, the Southern Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, Texada and the Discovery Islands, including boat-access west coast sites. See industries we serve for how we scope work by sector.
Why not just call a regular IT company?
Most IT shops build office networks; we build networks that survive a lodge’s worst hour — tower or Starlink backhaul sized to peak load, segmented guest and operations lanes, and remote monitoring so your staff never has to think about it. It starts with a site survey: coverage mapped, backhaul options assessed, real load counted, and a fixed quote in writing.
Common questions
Can Starlink really backhaul a whole lodge?
Sometimes — and sometimes not. It depends on guest count, peak concurrency and what "good enough" means for your reviews. A small lodge with 20 rooms is a very different case than a 200-site campground. We model the traffic first and tell you honestly whether Starlink, a tower link, or a bonded combination is the answer.
Our current WiFi "mostly works" — should we still talk?
"Mostly works" in October means "collapses" in August. If your peak season is when it matters, a pre-season assessment is cheap insurance. We find the chokepoints — backhaul, access point density, interference, power — and fix what's actually broken.
Do you handle the ongoing management?
We design for low-maintenance operation with remote monitoring and alerting, and we offer maintenance arrangements for seasonal checkups and priority support. The goal is a network your staff doesn't have to think about.
What about our POS and security systems?
They get their own segmented network with priority — operations traffic never competes with guest streaming. This is standard practice in every commercial build we do, not an add-on.
How do we start?
A site survey: we walk the property, map coverage, assess backhaul options and count your real load. You get a written design and a fixed quote. No obligation, no mystery pricing.
Peak season is coming. Is your network ready?
Tell us about the property — size, peak occupancy, what breaks today. We'll survey it and design a network that survives your worst hour.