Multi dwelling wifi architecture for 20 Condominiums
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I am working on a system design for a wireless internet overhaul in a condominium building. The physical overview consists of an enterprise gateway, such as Omada or Ubiquiti, with an SFP connection to a managed PoE switch feeding access points. It is a four-story building with five units per floor, totaling twenty units. For bidding purposes, I am assuming one available repurposed phone Cat5e cable per unit. The current incoming WAN is terrible, and having twenty basic ISP-provided routers running in close proximity heavily compounds the issue. The condo association is open to making quality wireless internet a complex-wide amenity provided by the association, replacing the current poor subscription model.
No major commercial ISPs service the complex, so my current plan is to deploy one Starlink kit per building to serve twenty units. The Starlink unit would be placed in bridge mode, feeding an enterprise gateway followed by enough access points to ensure adequate coverage in all units. My LAN and RF strategy is to broadcast individual SSIDs for each unit, assigning each unit to its own isolated VLAN with a bandwidth throttle. I intend to deploy Wi-Fi 7 access points with maximum channel separation. Spreading out channel congestion while introducing a vastly superior base network speed should dramatically improve performance, as my assumption is that the core issue right now is twenty consumer routers clashing on overlapping channels.
While this isn't an ideal network topology, residents are desperate for a working solution. My walkthroughs showed almost zero wired connections in use, and the demographic here largely doesn't care about a wired drop. However, if a wired requirement does arise, I can pivot to one access point per unit utilizing at least one built-in Ethernet port on the chosen access point model.
Furthermore, this complex houses a large population of elderly residents, and over the last several months there have been multiple instances where people could not reach emergency services due to network failures. Simply being able to access wifi calling and/or utilize network based monitoring equipment would be a massive relief. Solving this reliability crisis is the primary driver behind this bid.
TLDR: I want to use one Starlink satellite linking an enterprise gateway to provide twenty condos with a segregated VLAN SSID each, then extrapolate that concept across eight additional identical buildings. Is it a violation of Starlink's terms of service to provide internet to twenty condos per satellite, given that roughly half to three-quarters are lightly used vacation homes? Assuming proper access point placement and RF distribution, is channel diversity coupled with VLAN per-unit isolation a reasonable angle of attack to deliver usable Wi-Fi to twenty condos over a single shared connection?
