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IP cameras connection to Orbi unstable, slow, frequently disconnects
I have six IP cameras that I can connect wirelessly to my Orbi system (reserved IP addresses). However, accessing any or all of the cameras is painfully slow and frequently one or more of the cameras...
Happy to report that adding a second satellite appears to have completely solved the problem. All six cameras now working as crisply as ever. Thanks to everyone for contributing to the solution.
make sure upnp is enabled, statically assign each camera an ip address and add a port forwarding rule for each camera ip address. just a simple ftp with a complete port range of the cameras. ie 80-8000. this step was not needed before i started using netgear routers but for some reason it does now.
My problem isn't that I can't connect the cameras to the Orbi's wifi - I can. I don't have a problem with IP addressing the cameras. The problem is that the video is very sluggish, jerky and cameras frequently lose their connection.
I've tried these suggestions but the problems continue (thanks for suggesting these):
Set manual channel 1, 6 or 11 on 2.4Ghz. Any unused channel on 5Ghz.
WPA2 and AES only.
Disable Beamforming, MIMO, Daisy Chain and Fast Roaming. Save settings and reboot both Orbi and Satellite.
Progress report:
I disconnected all six IP cameras and then reintroduced two of them. So far the two connected are working normally. Seems that six were choking the system somehow but I would like to be able to redeploy them. Thanks for all the suggestions and if there are any more please post them.
Not sure if an additional satellite (I have one at present) would make any difference to the system's capacity?
I was wondering if your system was getting congested having that many cameras on. You might try another Satellite and see if you can add more cameras. If you can make sure the others will connect to a new addion. Orbi is fairly automatic and cameras are probably same.
Bloodrule wrote:
Progress report:
I disconnected all six IP cameras and then reintroduced two of them. So far the two connected are working normally. Seems that six were choking the system somehow but I would like to be able to redeploy them. Thanks for all the suggestions and if there are any more please post them.
Not sure if an additional satellite (I have one at present) would make any difference to the system's capacity?
I hope my comment about link rates is clear. The best thing you can do is make sure each camera is operating at a high link rate, as described above. This means getting the best signal you can at every camera.
If the cameras are far apart, then adding an additional Orbi sat could help, as it could reduce the AP-to-camera distance for all the cameras.
Again, I do not expect your cameras will roam, so you it is critical to manually restart each camera after Orbi is stable, to get each camera to associate with the nearest AP.
Orbi is not the best design for your scenario, because all APs operate on the same channel and they all share a common wireless backhaul. If you had a business grade set of wired APs, you could set a separate SSID for each AP, and set each AP on non-overlapping channels, and get better throughput.
Happy to report that adding a second satellite appears to have completely solved the problem. All six cameras now working as crisply as ever. Thanks to everyone for contributing to the solution.
