A hotel estate’s network, cabled building by building.

Since January 2025 we have been the electrical and data contractor for Dallas Burston Polo Club, the country hotel and polo club near Southam, Warwickshire, working alongside the hotel’s network provider. The estate has a main hotel, suites and cottages, a pub, a clubhouse and a new block of guest rooms, spread across open ground. Here is what we have done, visit by visit, from our engineers’ photo reports.

January and March 2025: rooms, screens and cameras

• Repositioned and remounted TVs in guest rooms and a suite, and fitted a wall access point behind the suite’s TV.
• Terminated the supplies for new EV chargers and installed a camera outside an external door.
• Moved an interactive screen and speaker from the estate office to the hotel’s conference room, and mounted an access point beside it.
• Patched the TVs in reception and the lounge into the network, and surveyed where radio links between buildings could go.

April 2025: the Wi-Fi survey

Before the main upgrade we walked every building with the network provider: the hotel, the suites, the cottages, the clubhouse and the estate office. We found each comms rack, worked out cable routes through lofts and around a comms room with no obvious way in, and measured runs of 25 to 60 metres. Where a suite had no hidden route, we planned neat mini trunking rather than cutting into the decoration.

July 2025: the Wi-Fi upgrade

• Ran new Cat6 from a bridge position, up through a chimney route, into the main comms room, and routed new cables through the pub’s loft.
• Fitted access points through the suites, with trunking in bedrooms and cupboards and every hole through a wall fire-sealed.
• Used a mobile elevating work platform to fit outdoor access points and point-to-point radio bridges on the clubhouse, linking it to the hotel network. Work at height stopped one afternoon when the wind got too strong, and carried on the next day.
• Each bridge was tested and confirmed working with the network provider before we left.

November 2025: a new block of guest rooms

• Installed a new comms cabinet and 20 data points across the ground and first floors, each one installed and tested.
• Fitted a radio link at the apex of the building to connect it back to the hotel.
• Mounted the room TVs, with access points behind them, ready for the network provider to switch on.
• When one radio bridge showed a power overload on its switch port, we moved it to another port and reinstated it.

On the last day of that visit the whole hotel network went down after an automatic overnight update wiped the firewall’s settings. Our engineer was in the comms room before 8am, freed up working sockets in the cabinet, and worked through it with the network provider and the manufacturer’s support.

January 2026: maintaining the comms room

After that outage we went back for a planned maintenance visit to the two main data cabinets:

• Replaced the power distribution strips, where some sockets had worked loose.
• Labelled every power plug, so anyone can see which device is which.
• Cleaned both cabinets and every device inside them.
• Tested the backup firewall: it took over when the main one was unplugged, as it should.

Since then we have replaced a network switch in the mews, and 31 access points that have reached the end of their life are next on the list.

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Written by SEGplc. Last updated 21 October 2026.