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Just over half these homes are houses, and the rest are not all towers

Gulf Stream has 591 homes and 328 of them are houses — 291 detached, the remainder attached. That leaves nearly half the town living in buildings, which is unusual for a place this small and is the fact that decides how a project here begins. In a house you work out where a cable ought to run and then go and make that happen. In a building you work out which of the paths already there will carry it. Those are two different jobs, and both of them are in this town.

The buildings are not one type either. 128 of these homes sit in buildings of between five and nineteen units and 129 in buildings of twenty or more, so the middle of that range is as common here as the top of it. A building of eight or twelve homes deserves naming separately, because it has neither the freedom of a house nor the infrastructure of a tower. Runs are short, the paths that exist were put there for something else, and every one of them is shared. What a structure will give you gets established address by address.

Coverage changes more between these addresses than anything else does

In a house the limits are distance and material: how far a signal has to travel and what it passes through on the way. In a stacked building the distances shorten but the plan is long rather than tall, and the useful path may cross into space that is not yours to open. Neither case is fixed by a faster connection at the door. Both are answered by deciding early which parts of the system are cabled and which are not — a decision that belongs to the structure rather than to the equipment list.

The stock is not one age either. More of it dates from the 1970s than from any other decade — 146 homes — while 76 went up between 2010 and 2019, so a working assumption about what sits behind a wall holds for part of the town and fails for the rest. In the older half almost everything is an alteration to a finished structure, and the first task is establishing what is genuinely available rather than what a drawing implies ought to be.

Owners occupy 311 of the 355 lived-in homes here, so most of these decisions are made by the household that will live with the result. What that household wants from a finished system does not depend on which half of the town it is in. The work needed to deliver it very much does. Establish which paths an address actually offers, agree what has to be invisible and what may simply be tidy, and let the equipment be chosen against those answers instead of ahead of them.