Frequently Asked Questions

Commercial WiFi installation in Oklahoma City starts at $2,900 for a small office — 2 access points, 4 cable drops, a PoE switch, gateway, and configuration. Larger offices cost more depending on square footage, access point count, and cable drop count.

The price is driven by three things: the number of ceiling-mounted access points, the number of Cat6 cable drops, and how difficult the cable path is — open ceilings are fast and cheap, while finished drywall ceilings and fire-rated walls add time and cost.

Every quote starts with a free on-site survey, because square footage alone doesn't tell the whole story — wall materials, occupancy, and where the existing network gear lives all move the number. The price excludes your internet service fee, any monthly support plan you choose, and furniture moving.

Most small-office network installations in the Oklahoma City area take one to three days. A single-room setup with a couple of access points can be done in one day; a full office with twenty or more cable drops across multiple rooms usually takes two to three.

The timeline is driven by the cabling, not the WiFi equipment — access points mount quickly, but pulling Cat6 through ceilings and walls is the slow part. Open ceilings, drop tile, and existing conduit speed things up; solid drywall, fire-rated walls, and tall ceilings slow things down.

405 Smart Homes schedules most business installs after hours or on weekends so the office stays open during the day. A representative install — a title office with ceiling-mounted UniFi access points and structured cabling — was completed in a single day with no downtime for the staff.

The difference between business WiFi and consumer WiFi comes down to architecture. A consumer setup is one router trying to cover the whole space from wherever the modem sits. A business setup uses several ceiling-mounted access points, each wired back to a central switch, so coverage is even and devices roam seamlessly between them.

Business WiFi adds network separation that consumer gear can't do well — a staff network, a guest network, and a network for printers and IoT devices, each with its own rules. Business systems are also centrally managed, so one dashboard shows every access point and can be changed remotely.

For a home or a one-room office, a good consumer router is often fine. For any space where staff, guests, and devices share the same connection, business-grade WiFi from a company like UniFi is the difference between a network that works and one that gets rebooted every week.

Most small offices benefit from at least two VLANs, even if the business is only a few people. A VLAN (virtual local area network) logically separates traffic so that devices on one network can't see or reach devices on another, even though they share the same physical cabling and switches.

The practical reason is guests and IoT. When a visitor's phone or a smart thermostat is on the same network as the bookkeeping computer and the file server, one compromised device becomes a path to everything. A guest VLAN with client isolation keeps visitors online while walling them off completely.

In a UniFi system, VLANs add no per-device licensing cost, so the only real cost is the time to configure them correctly. 405 Smart Homes sets up a staff VLAN, a guest VLAN, and an IoT VLAN as standard on every business install.

A general rule is one access point per 1,500 to 2,000 square feet of open space, adjusted for walls and occupancy. A 4,000-square-foot office with standard drywall usually needs two or three access points; a warehouse with metal shelving or a building with thick concrete walls may need more even at the same square footage.

What matters more than raw square footage is density — the number of devices in one place. A conference room with twelve laptops and phones on a video call needs its own nearby access point even if the room is small, because one access point can only serve so many simultaneous clients before performance drops.

Rather than guess, 405 Smart Homes performs a free on-site survey and walks the space with a signal meter, then places access points where coverage actually needs to be. The survey is what turns "we think two is enough" into a network that works on day one.

For most small businesses, UniFi is the better value. UniFi hardware costs less up front and has no ongoing license fee — once you own the access points, you own them. Meraki hardware is more expensive and requires a per-device license that must be renewed every year; if the license lapses, the hardware stops working.

Meraki's advantages are Cisco's support network, a single vendor to call, and very polished cloud management. Those matter at enterprise scale, where downtime is measured in revenue per minute and a support contract is worth the cost.

For an Oklahoma City professional office — a title company, law firm, dental practice, or accounting firm — UniFi delivers the same features (VLANs, guest WiFi, central management, remote monitoring) without the recurring bill. 405 Smart Homes installs and supports UniFi by default, and we own the support relationship so you still have one number to call.

Yes. A properly configured guest network keeps visitors online while completely separating them from your internal network. The guest WiFi runs on its own VLAN, and client isolation prevents one guest's device from seeing any other device on that network, including the business network, the file server, printers, and other guests.

Most 405 Smart Homes business installs include a captive portal — a branded splash page guests see when they connect, with a QR code or tap-to-connect sign at the front desk. Guests get internet access and nothing else, and you can cap their bandwidth so a dozen streaming phones don't slow down the staff network.

The separation is enforced in the network hardware, not by a password, so a guest can't simply "find" the internal network by guessing credentials. This is the same approach used in the guest WiFi installs 405 Smart Homes has deployed for professional offices across Edmond and Oklahoma City.

405 Smart Homes works with your existing internet provider and never requires you to switch. A properly built network is independent of the ISP — the provider delivers the connection at the modem or fiber ONT, and everything after that point is your equipment, which works the same regardless of who the provider is.

AT&T Fiber, Cox, and OEC Fiber are the common providers in the Oklahoma City metro, and 405 Smart Homes has built networks on all of them. If you have a static IP or a business account, the configuration carries over; if you later switch providers, only the handoff point changes.

We don't take commissions or kickbacks from any ISP, so our only reason to recommend a change is performance. If your current connection is undersized for the new network, we'll tell you, and we'll handle the switch on your behalf so you never have to call the provider yourself.

Whole-home WiFi installation in the OKC metro starts at $2,400 for a typical home — 2 access points, 3 cable drops, a switch, gateway, and VLANs. Larger homes cost more depending on size, access point count, and the number of wired Ethernet drops.

The cost is driven by the number of access points, the number of Cat6 drops for home offices and media centers, and how difficult the cable runs are — finished walls and second floors cost more than open basements and attics.

Every quote follows a free on-site survey, because two homes with the same square footage can need very different designs depending on wall material and where the internet enters the house. The price excludes the internet service itself and any optional month-to-month support plan.

Mesh WiFi still has dead spots because the mesh nodes talk to each other over the air, and that wireless backhaul is exactly as weak as the WiFi problem it's trying to solve. If a node is placed too far from the main unit, or behind a thick wall, it re-broadcasts a weak signal — the device shows full bars, but the actual connection is slow or drops.

Every "hop" a mesh node makes cuts the available speed roughly in half, because the node has to use the same radio to receive and re-transmit. In a long house or a house with dense walls, a chain of three mesh nodes can leave the farthest room running at a fraction of the connection speed.

The fix is wired backhaul — running Ethernet to each access point so they all connect directly to the router instead of bouncing a signal through each other. 405 Smart Homes replaces mesh dead spots with wired access points, which is why the coverage actually reaches every room instead of just looking like it does.

Whether you need Ethernet or WiFi 7 is enough depends on what you're doing. For phones, laptops, and streaming on a TV, modern WiFi — including WiFi 6 and WiFi 7 — is plenty. For a home office, competitive gaming, or moving large media files, a wired Ethernet connection still wins on latency, stability, and top speed.

The most important distinction is the backbone. Even in a wireless-first home, the access points themselves should be wired back to the router. A WiFi 7 access point that's wired in delivers its full speed; the same access point relying on a wireless mesh connection is limited by that link.

A practical approach is to wire the things that don't move — desktop computers, game consoles, media servers, and the access points themselves — and leave WiFi for the things that do. 405 Smart Homes designs homes this way by default, so you get WiFi where it's convenient and Ethernet where it matters.

Nothing breaks when you change from Cox to AT&T Fiber, because a properly built network is independent of the internet provider. The provider hands off the connection at the modem or fiber ONT, and everything behind that — the router, switch, access points, and every device's settings — stays exactly as it was.

Your WiFi name, password, guest network, and VLANs all stay the same, because those live on your equipment, not the ISP's. The only thing that changes is the physical handoff point, and a static IP or port-forwarding rule just moves to the new connection.

405 Smart Homes handles provider changes as part of the install, so on switch day we coordinate with the new provider, move the handoff, and confirm the whole network comes back up before we leave. If you change providers later, the network you own simply follows the new connection.

Keep smart home devices off your main network by putting them on a separate VLAN with their own WiFi name. A VLAN logically separates the smart home devices from your computers and phones, so a compromised camera or a cheap smart plug can't reach your laptop, your files, or your other devices.

The smart devices still get internet access for updates and remote control, but the firewall rules between the two networks are one-way. Devices that need to be controlled from your phone — like HomeKit accessories — are handled with the right discovery rules, so the separation doesn't break day-to-day use.

This is the standard setup on every 405 Smart Homes install. The IoT network is configured at the router and access points, so every device you add later lands in the right place automatically, and the main network stays private.

Smart home installation in the OKC metro starts at $800 for a small device set and dashboard. The final price depends on scope, because "smart home" can mean one smart lock or every light, thermostat, camera, and speaker in the house.

The cost breaks into three parts: the devices themselves, a hub to run them locally, and the labor to install and configure everything. A whole-home system with a local controller like Home Assistant, dozens of devices, and network segregation is a larger project than a single-room setup.

405 Smart Homes quotes smart home work the same way as networking: a free on-site survey first, then a fixed price with the equipment itemized. You own the hardware outright, and there's no required subscription on top of the install.

The difference between Home Assistant and a cloud platform like SmartThings is where the brains live. Home Assistant runs on a small device in your home, so turning on a light or running an automation happens on your own hardware, in milliseconds, with or without the internet. SmartThings runs on Samsung's servers, so every command makes a round trip through the cloud.

That difference shows up in three places: speed, privacy, and reliability. Local control is faster and your data stays in your home. A local system keeps working when the internet goes down, while a cloud system can become unresponsive during an outage or if the vendor changes its service or starts charging a subscription.

Home Assistant is also the most flexible option — it ties together devices from dozens of brands into one dashboard, instead of being locked to one vendor's ecosystem. 405 Smart Homes installs Home Assistant as the default hub because it's owned by you and isn't tied to any single manufacturer's cloud.

A locally controlled smart home keeps working during an internet outage. Lights, locks, thermostats, and automations that run on a local hub like Home Assistant don't need the internet — they talk to the hub over your own network, so turning on a light or running a scene still works when the connection is down.

What does stop working is anything that depends on the cloud: voice assistants like Alexa or Google that process commands online, remote access from outside the home, and cloud-only devices that can't operate without their vendor's servers. The physical devices keep working; the cloud features pause.

This is the main reason 405 Smart Homes builds local control by default. If your smart home is cloud-dependent, one internet outage takes the whole house down; if it's local, the house keeps running and only the remote extras pause until the connection returns.

No. The smart home systems 405 Smart Homes installs are locally controlled with no required subscription. You buy the hardware once, it runs on a hub in your home, and there's no monthly fee to keep the lights and automations working.

That's different from many cloud platforms, which charge a subscription for features like video recording history, advanced automations, or remote access. Those subscriptions are how cloud platforms fund their servers — but they also mean your system has an ongoing cost and stops working if the service changes.

If you want ongoing help, 405 Smart Homes offers optional month-to-month support plans, but those are opt-in and separate from the system itself. The system you own works without them, and you can cancel a support plan anytime with 30 days notice.

405 Smart Homes does not require a monthly contract. Installations are one-time projects — you pay for the work and the equipment, you own it outright, and that's the end of the financial relationship unless you want it to continue.

For clients who want ongoing support, 405 Smart Homes offers month-to-month Home Care and Managed IT plans. These are opt-in, not bundled into the install, and they can be cancelled anytime with 30 days notice. There's no term commitment, no early-termination fee, and no auto-renewal trap.

The philosophy is that a support plan should survive on its own merit — if the service isn't worth paying for, you shouldn't be locked into it. That's why everything outside the one-time install is month-to-month.

405 Smart Homes serves the Oklahoma City metro, including Edmond, Yukon, Mustang, Moore, and Norman. The business is based in the Oklahoma City area, and most installs happen within that metro radius.

For on-site work — network installations, cable runs, smart home installs, and TV mounting — the service area covers those metro communities and the surrounding area. For clients just outside the listed cities, 405 Smart Homes is happy to confirm coverage during the free survey call.

Remote IT support and small business support plans aren't limited by geography at all, since those are delivered over the phone and remotely. If you're not sure whether you're in the service area, the fastest way to find out is to call (405) 283-6029.

405 Smart Homes & Technology does not repair televisions. The company is an installation company. Its TV work consists of professional wall mounting — securing a mount into studs or masonry, concealing cables in-wall, mounting soundbars and components, and configuring inputs and streaming devices so the system works before the installer leaves.

405 Smart Homes does not service panels, backlights, power boards, HDMI boards, or firmware faults, and does not perform warranty repair for any manufacturer. If a television will not power on, shows lines or dead pixels, has no picture or no sound, or was physically damaged, the right path is a manufacturer warranty claim if it's in warranty, or a dedicated electronics repair service if it isn't. In most cases with modern TVs, panel repair costs more than replacement, and a repair shop will say the same thing.

What 405 Smart Homes can help with is everything around the television: mounting it correctly and safely, hiding the wiring, getting the network solid enough that streaming doesn't buffer, integrating the TV into a smart home system, and mounting and configuring replacement sets. If you're in the Oklahoma City metro and you need a TV mounted, installed, relocated, or integrated, that's the work 405 Smart Homes does. If you need one repaired, 405 Smart Homes will point you toward someone who does that, but it isn't them.