# Range in a big house with a lot of concrete walls and floors
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/range-in-a-big-house-with-a-lot-of-concrete-walls-and-floors/10221
**Category:** Questions & Help
**Created:** [March 7, 2019, 10:26am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/range-in-a-big-house-with-a-lot-of-concrete-walls-and-floors/10221 "2019-03-07T10:26:18Z")
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### Author:  [@Mattias\_Blomquist](https://community.homey.app/u/Mattias_Blomquist)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 10:26am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/range-in-a-big-house-with-a-lot-of-concrete-walls-and-floors/10221/1 "2019-03-07T10:26:18Z")
We have a 4 floor house of total 400 sqm. only wood construction on top floor, rest concrete. will Homey work in the whole house?
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### Author:  [@neluz](https://community.homey.app/u/neluz)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 11:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/range-in-a-big-house-with-a-lot-of-concrete-walls-and-floors/10221/2 "2019-03-07T11:08:30Z")
Depends on the devices you’re planning to use. If you would use Zigbee or Zwave devices they will create a mesh network. This way devices won’t have to communicate with Homey directly but via neighbouring devices. Just make sure you’ll place a (non battery) powered device on each floor and you’ll be fine. This could be a simple Zwave/Zigbee wall socket plug or a built-in switch or dimmer.
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### Author:  [@Mattias\_Blomquist](https://community.homey.app/u/Mattias_Blomquist)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 11:21am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/range-in-a-big-house-with-a-lot-of-concrete-walls-and-floors/10221/3 "2019-03-07T11:21:07Z")
Thanks. And I guess wifi is depended on what “whole”-house system I use.
What would be the best one for that? any thoughts?
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### Author:  [@neluz](https://community.homey.app/u/neluz)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 11:38am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/range-in-a-big-house-with-a-lot-of-concrete-walls-and-floors/10221/4 "2019-03-07T11:38:46Z")
> [@Mattias\_Blomquist](#):
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> Thanks. And I guess wifi is depended on what “whole”-house system I use.
> What would be the best one for that? any thoughts?
If you have UTP cables running trough your house buy Ubiquiti access points ( Ubiquiti UniFi AP lite or pro). I have three of them for a few years now, they work really good!
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### Author:  [@PetervdK](https://community.homey.app/u/PetervdK)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/range-in-a-big-house-with-a-lot-of-concrete-walls-and-floors/10221/5 "2019-03-07T16:14:48Z")
If wired is possible, go for a dedicated wired mesh system (like indeed Ubiquiti). If wired is not possible, you can try Netgear Orbi. I have this system up & running for more than a week now with 3 nodes in the house and i am very satisfied with the range and speed. Roaming is seamlessly throughout the house.
You can try out the (much) cheaper Linksys Velop, but i had the dual system for a month and i got rid of it. Bad roaming (most on 2,4ghz) or unnecessary roaming to further nodes (most on 5ghz), resulting in bad connections and slow speeds.