He lives in a house.

I base this on two things.

(1) Apartments usually only have one floor. The article says he was having trouble with wifi between floors. That is not proof, but it is suggestive enough to warrant looking harder.

(2) He links to his Google+ stuff, and one of the things there is a photo of a house with Christmas decorations, which he describes as "Christmas lights near our house", and he links to Google maps for that lighted house. That house is in the middle of a vast sea of houses, with no apartments within a kilometer. All the apartment buildings with 6 km only offer units with one floor of living space (some do have a second floor, but it is a garage).

It's a pain in the ass no matter where you live. Making using existing wires that much more appealing.