Reviews for Escondido business phone installation services
Peter N.
As of the time of the writing of this review, there is currently a single 1 star review for Gistekus Networks Inc. My overarching sentiment is one of pity, because no matter what next steps that individual took after reaching out to Gistekus - it would not have been as effective as the solutions provided by Avery and his team. Not even in the slightest.
Little bit of background on our project - my wife and I moved from downtown San Diego to rural Escondido and had our first child a few months ago. We've both worked from home since 2011 and strong connectivity is paramount to our day-to-day business operations. As millenials our house is littered with assorted new-gen gaming consoles, smart devices that control our security cams/lighting/irrigation, and 4/8k HDTV screens are pretty much everywhere including outdoor spaces. Our house was built in the 70's and has of lots of brick / stucco that can murder a wi-fi signal. The connectivity in this rural area is a far cry from what we were used to from an urban setting, and every time I called COX for assistance they seemingly always made things worse. The connectivity in our house was a hodge-podge of modems/routers from previous owners and our best attempts to add additional Google mesh networks (if one network was down, maybe the others would at least be able to get us online) did pretty much nothing. Total mess of devices. By the end, we were having to take critically important business video calls from our phones because our work laptops couldn't even hold a zoom meeting. Our streaming devices were always buffering, or outright losing signals. Even spotify and pandora could barely get through a few tracks without losing signal. Whenever I had a moment to spend some quality time with my playstation or xbox, the lag made gaming an even more frustrating experience than it inherently is. Amidst the backdrop of a new baby in the house and 2020/21 in general, we were effectively going insane.
And then I connected with Avery and his team, and as I reminded him constantly while he was working on our house - he *literally* changed our lives. As of this moment all of our Zoom/Teams calls are going perfectly. My work CRM system is operating faster than I have ever seen. Gaming-wise, thanks to the beauty of Cat6 installation I finally have the UL/DL speeds to defeat the ruthless 8 year olds that populate the servers. All the 4k HDTVs in the house and associated streaming devices are operating at an optimal level. Even our baby-cam, which is supposedly not connected to wi-fi whatsoever, has seemingly extended ranges and never loses a signal no matter where we are in our house. The mess of modems and Google meshes has been consolidated into a singular system. Cat 6 now runs directly through our work computers and TVs, and we even have improved cell coverage from our Verizon extender due to the clean network environment.
Overall, the combined solutions far exceeded the scope of our expectations and the fact that it's all consolidated and managed from an iphone app is all the better. All I wanted for Christmas was wi-fi and I definitely got it, plus more than I expected.
So to my Thumbtack friends looking for better connectivity in an age of congested networks - this is it. End of the line, you're done looking. This is the single-handedly the best solution to any and all of your network problems. My advice is to reach out now before he gets busier.
GISTEK Networks Inc San Diego, Long Beach
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