IP cameras connection to Orbi unstable, slow, frequently disconnects

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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?

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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.