Home Network Audit
Your home network carries your banking, your work, your children's schoolwork, your cameras and your locks. Most were set up in ten minutes by whoever installed the internet and have never been looked at since. We look at it properly, explain what we find, and fix what matters while we are there.
What we examine
- The router and modemFirmware currency, administrator password, remote-management exposure, the services the router itself is running, and whether the ISP-supplied box is doing you a favor or a disservice.
- Every device on the networkWe enumerate what is actually connected — the forgotten smart plug, the old tablet, the printer with a web page open to the world — and identify each one with you.
- Wi‑Fi securityEncryption in use (WPA2 vs WPA3), password strength, WPS, guest network, and whether your cameras, doorbells and televisions are separated from the laptops that hold your finances.
- What the outside can seeOpen ports, port-forwards nobody remembers making, UPnP letting devices punch holes on their own, and any service reachable from the internet that should not be.
- DNS, updates and backupsWhere your devices look names up, whether malicious sites are being filtered, which devices auto-update, and whether the things that matter — photos, documents — exist in more than one place.
- Coverage and reliabilityDead spots, congested channels, and whether the physical layout (mesh nodes, cabling, switch placement) is helping or hurting. Security that is unreliable gets switched off; we make sure it is not.
What you receive
A written report in plain English: an inventory of what is on your network, the findings ranked by how much they matter, what we changed on the spot (with your approval, and with the old settings recorded), and a short list of anything worth doing later. No scare tactics and no upsell — most homes need a handful of decisive fixes, not a new everything.
Households who go on to a Home Assistant system or a security installation will find the audit already did the groundwork: a segmented, documented network is the foundation both are built on.
Common questions
How long does it take?
Two to three hours on site for a typical household, longer for large homes or many devices. We ask that someone who knows the router password be available — and if nobody does, that is finding number one, and we resolve it.
Will you need my passwords?
We need administrative access to the router and, ideally, to the accounts of the smart devices you want examined. You type them; we do not record them. Any password we change is written in your report and handed to you, not kept by us.
Do you install anything?
Only if the plan calls for it and you agree — for example, a better router, a small managed switch to separate camera traffic, or a wired connection to a mesh node that has been struggling. Equipment is itemized at cost.
Can I do some of this myself first?
Yes, and we encourage it. Our free Field Guide, The 20-minute home network checkup, walks through the essentials. Many people do that, then call us for the parts that need a second pair of eyes.