A stunning venue. Zero connectivity.
Hummingbird Hollow is a premier wedding and events estate in rural East Texas — a 50-acre property of restored historic cottages, a grand marriage hall, an open-air theater, and lush gardens. Couples and their guests travel from across the country to celebrate here.
Beneath the charm lay a serious operational problem. The property had no reliable high-speed internet, virtually no mobile signal anywhere on site, and its eight buildings were spread across open grounds with no structured network at all. The owner was managing a growing hospitality business — bookings, IPTV, VoIP phones, security cameras, outdoor projectors — all without the infrastructure to support it.
An additional constraint: the buildings are historic and architecturally precious. Any installation had to be invisible — no cable trays on decorative woodwork, no unsightly hardware breaking the character of century-old interiors.
Main Office (MO01) — original internet source, measuring just 24/10 Mbps
Marriage Hall (MH01) — tallest structure at 20 ft, identified as the network hub
Site survey and network planning
Nodalwire LLC began with a full site survey: a building-by-building walkthrough, line-of-sight analysis from aerial imagery, speed tests, obstruction mapping, and a review of existing phone and electrical infrastructure.
The main office had an existing broadband connection measuring 24 Mbps down, 10 Mbps up — barely adequate for a single room. The Marriage Hall, at 20 feet the tallest structure on the property, had clear line of sight to every other building. That made it the natural distribution hub. Starlink was selected as the primary internet source: a sky-view analysis confirmed unobstructed satellite access, and an on-site speed test returned 64 Mbps down, 26 Mbps up, and 24 ms latency. For backup, a site walk identified a specific outdoor point with usable LTE signal; a Cradlepoint failover path was designed in from day one.
Starlink dish — cable routed discreetly over the terrace
TP-Link P2P backhaul radio at Main Office
On-site speed test: 64/26 Mbps — 2.5× the existing connection
A full-property network — built without touching a single decorative surface
Starlink was installed at the Main Office rooftop with cabling routed over the terrace and stapled flush to wood trim. A Grandstream 16-port PoE switch formed the distribution core. Six TP-Link point-to-point microwave links then carried connectivity from the Main Office to every building across the property — the Marriage Hall, all three guesthouses, the warehouse, and the open-air theater — without laying a single ground trench.
At each building, a Grandstream WAP was installed at ceiling height, on covered porches, or inside existing millwork cabinets. The open-air theater received a dedicated pole-mounted installation: a P2P radio and outdoor-rated WAP, all cabling weather-sealed, with the projector connected and live-stream tested on-site. VoIP handsets were provisioned at every building. Smart TVs in all guesthouses were connected to the network, replacing individual cable subscriptions. Security cameras were brought online for remote monitoring across the entire estate.
Rear property view — P2P microwave links connect all visible buildings wirelessly
Warehouse / Barn (WH01) — WAP08 installed via P2P link
Guesthouse 01 (GH01) — WAP02 and Grandstream switch SW03
Guesthouse 02 (GH02) — WAP mounted flush to exterior eave
Marriage Hall — Grandstream SW02 + WAP06 installation
GH01 — WAP under porch ceiling, coverage across the grounds
Open Theater (OT01) — pole-mounted outdoor WAP05, projector connected
Full solution stack
A fully connected 50-acre estate
- Full Wi-Fi coverage across all 8 buildings and outdoor areas — on a 50-acre rural property with no prior broadband infrastructure
- Internet speed increased from 24 Mbps to 64 Mbps, with a resilient LTE backup path ensuring uptime in any weather
- Owner and staff can make and receive VoIP calls from anywhere on the estate using cordless handsets, including the open-air theater and gardens
- IPTV connected to every guesthouse TV, eliminating multiple individual cable subscriptions across all accommodations
- Open-air theater fully operational with live streaming — projector connected, positioned, and tested on-site
- Security cameras brought online for centralised remote monitoring across the entire 50-acre property
- Zero aesthetic impact on any historic building — all cabling concealed, all hardware flush-mounted or cabinet-housed
- Client issued a formal recommendation letter confirming complete satisfaction with the deployment
GH03 — WAP04 + switch SW05, installed inside a covered outdoor cabinet
Final verified speed: 64 Mbps down · 26 Mbps up · 24 ms latency
“The owner can now walk anywhere on his 50-acre estate — the gardens, the open theater, the guesthouses — and make a call, stream a film, or check his security cameras. That’s what good network design looks like: infrastructure that works invisibly, so the experience stays beautiful.”— Surendran Natarajan, Founder, Nodalwire LLC