Brockys
Barrow Ethernet & Wifi Solutions

Fed up of slow wifi?

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Films buffering during the good bits?

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Losing connection during Zoom calls?

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I can help!

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Residential wifi solutions in Barrow-in-Furness from Brockys.

Ethernet Switch

I’m not a magician. I’m a telephone engineer.

I offer wired connection to the greatest wifi consumers in your home. By supplying an ethernet connection to games consoles and streaming devices (Sky Q, Amazon Firestick, Roku, etc.), as well as ad hoc ethernet ports for laptops, you use your wifi bandwidth only for those devices that really need it.

A wired connection is generally much more reliable and lots quicker than a wireless connection, so that also (generally) means an end to buffering when streaming, no lag when gaming and a consistent performance during video conferencing.

About Me

I worked for OpenReach as a Telephone Engineer for just short of 25 years, beginning as an apprentice in 1994 and leaving in 2021. The industry had changed a lot since I began, and being a telephone engineer no longer meant repairing lines. The majority of work was now phoning a call centre in India, waiting on hold for ages to have a customer’s package changed. When I left, I had just completed a renovation of my huge Victorian home, which was a wreck when I bought it. I love working with my hands and enjoyed the project so much that I wanted to do that work full time. I started Brockys as a handyman business, but there’s a lot of competition in Barrow and I couldn’t find the work to support it.

How I Can Help

Little story.. I signed up to Disney Plus when The Mandalorian was announced. I was so looking forward to it. My wife and I were watching it in our kitchen on a TV with a Firestick. Our kitchen has a large open doorway supported by a very big RSJ. The FireStick was running over wifi. That first episode was supposed to be 37 minutes long. We grimly sat for 2 hours watching a spinning circle for 75% of the time, interspersed with brief snatches of action. I was pretty devastated.

It was my wife who found that you could buy an adapter to connect the Firestick to Ethernet. I quickly ran a wire through from the router. I couldn’t believe the difference it made. And not only that, amazingly our iPhones that had previously struggled to connect and generally ended up using data suddenly started connecting successfully to the wifi and performing well! Amazing!

Shortly after that my father-in-law complained that his internet speeds were terrible. He had a Sky Q box and his daughter is a heavy gamer and streamer, but she connected over wifi. So I ran ethernet cables to the Sky box and to his daughters room and since then the problems have ceased.

Since then, I’ve helped lots of people to improve connectivity around their home by offering wired solutions to static, high bandwidth consuming devices. And I can help you too!

Please do get in touch to plan which devices would benefit from hard-wiring.