Managed Wi-Fi · Sydney

Turnkey managed Wi-Fi — designed, installed and supported for accommodation venues.

Site survey through to ongoing monitoring. We design heatmap-led coverage, install business-grade access points, configure segmented access for residents, staff and building systems, and tune the result so it holds up under real venue load. No dead zones, no surprise dropouts, no DIY routers pretending to do a building job.

And if you want a guest or resident Wi-Fi platform you can actually brand and run, our own 8Fi is yours to buy outright or rent as a managed SaaS subscription.

Continuous network monitoring
Sydney accommodation specialists
Custom reception & resident apps
Venue · live metrics
Live
Resident floors16 APs · 5GHz
312 residents online−56 dBm
Common areas8 APs · 5GHz
98 devices−61 dBm
Staff & building systems (isolated VLAN)6 APs · 2.4GHz
24 devices−52 dBm
30
Access points
434
Active devices
99.9%
Uptime · 30d
8Fiby PDS

Our guest Wi-Fi platform — built for accommodation venues.

8Fi is our own guest and resident Wi-Fi management platform, developed in-house for the venues we look after. Captive portals, segmented access, voucher and time-based logins, branded splash pages and real-time usage analytics.

You can buy it outright as a perpetual licence and run it on your own infrastructure, or rent it as a managed SaaS subscription we host, patch and keep current.

The 8Fi web app was built by our Gen-Z developers in-house — which means your front desk staff will actually like using it.

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Sydney Student Living · Live
1,284
Active sessions
412
Unique residents
3
Network segments
99.9%
Uptime · 30d
Sydney Student Living — Sydney CBD
Resident VLAN · 384 sessions
Studio 8 Residences — Sydney Inner West
Resident VLAN · 256 sessions
Surry Hills Boutique Hotel — Surry Hills
Guest portal · 144 sessions
How we deliver

Turnkey delivery — survey, install, configure and tune.

One quote, one team, one project manager. The work is repeatable across venues because the process is repeatable — and the result is a network the venue team actually trusts to onboard residents and guests into.

01

Site survey & design

We walk the building, survey walls, materials and interference, and design a heatmap-led layout that covers every resident floor, common area and back-of-house zone — without overspending on hardware.

02

Hardware install

Enterprise access points, switches, controllers and cabling installed by our own cabling crew. Properly mounted, properly powered, properly labelled. No consumer routers pretending to do a job they can't.

03

Configure & tune

Channel planning, transmit power tuning, segmented VLANs for residents / staff / building systems, captive portals, 802.1X, WPA3 where supported. The network is configured to venue, not to default.

04

Hand over & look after

We document the build, train the on-site team, and run continuous monitoring from our NOC. Drift, interference and outages get caught early. New residents and new staff stay connected without a ticket queue.

What's included

A complete managed Wi-Fi service — not just a box of access points.

We treat your wireless network like the critical infrastructure it is. Design, deploy, secure, run — with one team accountable end to end across the venue.

Site survey & design

Heatmap-led layout for every resident floor, common area and back-of-house zone. Coverage without overspending on hardware.

Enterprise access points

Business-grade hardware from vendors we trust. Properly mounted, properly powered, properly labelled. We don't install consumer routers and pretend.

Segmented networks

Residents, staff and building systems on separate VLANs — so a misbehaving device can't take down the rest of the venue. The right traffic on the right lane.

Captive portals & splash pages

Branded login flow, voucher and time-based access, integration with PMS or property software. 8Fi handles this natively.

Built-in security

WPA3 where supported, rogue AP detection, automatic firmware updates, isolation of untrusted devices. The Wi-Fi stops being the easiest door into the building.

Continuous monitoring

We watch signal strength, client health and uplink performance from our NOC. Drift gets caught early — usually before the venue team notices.

Ongoing support

New residents on-boarded, new staff added, common-area networks extended. One ticket, one accountable engineer, one outcome.

Where it fits

Designed for the venues we know best.

Student accommodation, residential buildings, hotels and serviced apartments — venues where the Wi-Fi isn't optional, where you have hundreds of users on at once, and where the residents, guests and on-site staff all share a building.

Student living

High-density Wi-Fi, segmented access for residents, staff and building systems, plus a receptionist app for visitor and parcel management.

e.g. Sydney Student Living

Residential apartments

Reliable building-wide Wi-Fi, branded splash pages, owner-portal access for management committees, and isolated networks for building automation.

e.g. Studio 8 Residences

Hotels & serviced apartments

Guest Wi-Fi that holds up under continuous load, captive portals tied to your booking system, point-of-sale networks kept separate from guest traffic.

e.g. Boutique CBD hotels

Multi-site operators

Centralised management of Wi-Fi across multiple venues, with one dashboard, one set of policies and per-venue branding — without on-site IT at every site.

e.g. Student accommodation groups

Why PDS

Calm, accountable Wi-Fi — for buildings where dropouts aren't an option.

We've designed, installed and supported managed Wi-Fi across Sydney student living, residential, hotel and serviced-apartment venues. The work isn't "blanket the floor in access points" — it's a designed, monitored, supported network that the venue team actually trusts.

Built for accommodation

High-density residential and student housing is what we do most. We know how to manage 200+ devices in a concrete-and-steel building, what isolation looks like for share-houses, and how to onboard residents at scale.

We build our own apps

When customers ask for a guest onboarding flow, a receptionist console or a resident portal we don't outsource it — we build it. 8Fi and our venue apps are proof.

Turnkey delivery

Site survey, hardware procurement, install, configuration, tuning and handover — one quote, one team, one project manager. No subcontracted cabling crews you've never met.

Sydney-based engineers

Real humans picking up the phone during business hours, on-site when you need us. We keep the same engineer on the venue so they know the building, not a rotating tech with a ticket queue.

Get started

Ready for Wi-Fi your venue can actually rely on?

Book a no-obligation site walk-through. We'll measure your space, talk through your needs and give you a clear, written proposal — usually within a week.