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Orbi AC3000 and Amcrest wireless camera
I have a couple of Amcrest outdoor wireless cameras that didn't work well because of the wifi range of my Verizon router. I purchased ther Orbi system because I thought it would solve the dropout pro...
HI and thanks for responding. Currently, the cameras won't connect wirelessly because every time I plug in a camera to configure it the IP addess changes. This never happened with the Verizon wireless and it doesn't happen with the camera connected to the router directly. For example, when I configure a camera while connected directly to the router and then switch it's configuration to wireless the ip address changes. Amcrest techs are telling me that it's the Orbi. I tried configuring a camera while plugged into the router and then turned on the Verizon wireless and switched the camera to wireless and the ip address stayed the same. I was then able to use the camera wirelessly. When connected to Orbi, the ip address seems to change every time the camera is powered down and reconnected wirelessly.
Hello tydmeter
You can reserve the IP address for every camera so that does not happen under Advanced-Setup-Lan setup in there you can reserve the IP address based on mac address of the device.
DarrenM
Hello DarrenM,
Can you be a bit more specific? I went into Advanced Settings and see only VLAN/Bridge settings. Not sure where to go from there. I'm not particularly adept at this and on top of that I'm 80 and slowing down. Where do I put in the mac addresses? Really appreciate your help...
tydmeter
check out page 72
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RBK50/Orbi_UM_EN.pdf?cid=wmt_netgear_organic
DarrenM
Hi DarrenM, First I want to say thanks for the help. I checked the manual and did what I believe to be correct but it doesn't seem to work. I created an address reservation for the mac address of the camera. It also asked for the IP address which on this form starts with a "10.". I filled everything in including the "10" IP address. The camera comes up wirelessly as it should. However when I unplug the camera the ip address of the camera which starts with a "168" changes each time I unplug it. I checked to see if the Reserve table was still there and it is. I doesn't save the camera IP address that starts with 168. Each time I unplug the camera it assigns a new "168" ip address. This did not happen with the Verizon wireless. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks,
tydmeter