As smart technologies have grown more popular over the years, we’ve started seeing an interesting trend: phones, door locks, light switches, and more have all gotten smarter in the average home, but those homes’ networks haven’t always kept up. The best practice is to invest in a professional home network setup, but you may be asking yourself if that’s really necessary for your Beaumont, Texas home.

To help you answer that question, we’ve put together a glimpse into the typical “before” and “after” scenario of a home network upgrade. If the “before” scenario accurately describes your home, then consider the difference that moving to “after” could make.

Here at Brock Technology Group, we like to think of home networks as the foundation of smart home automation systems. Just like you wouldn’t want to build a home on a cracked or uneven foundation, you wouldn’t want to try to run an automation system on a network that is unreliable, unsecured, or weak.

And yet many homeowners throughout The Woodlands, Texas area are relying on basic routers or networking packages from their internet service provider. The result is that you have areas of your home where you can’t get a reliable Wi-Fi signal, you can’t stream media to multiple devices at once, and slow or lagging performance is the norm. Not good.

Fortunately, there’s a way around all of that. Keep reading to learn how a professional home network setup works and how it can impact the performance of your smart home.