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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...
The bitrates should be fine as I had a working system with my previous ASUS RT-AC88U Wireless-AC3100 Dual Band Gigabit Router, I just had an issue with range from the farthest IP cameras.
Wired connection to satellites still fail, this was after I tried lowering all cameras to the lowest bitrate of 1200Kbps. I checked the wifi statuses of the cameras and I can see 3 of my wifi ID's of the same name, and everytime I connect to the one with the strongest signal, upon refreshing, it connects to the lowest possible, most likely it's connecting to the router, even though in the status page it says it's connected to the correct satellite that's right next to it. I also borrowed a friends 5Ghz version of the camera, the IP3M-941, was good for less than a hour and has now lost its connection and doesn't reconnect by itself. I guess I can try to run everything from the router, but then you see it defeats the purpose of this "mesh" system and I would have useless satellites.
I am also running latest firmware V2.0.0.74, MIMO, beamforming, daisy chain, tried them all on/off.
Sounds like a mess. Could be an an issue with the camera brand. But, if you have problems wired to the satellite, then your Orbi is having issues with the backhaul. You need to fix that issue first.
I have a different brand of IP camera--Trivision. I never had any problems using them with Orbi. The Trivision never showed multiple SSIDs either. After running the cameras wireless for a long time I finally ran cables to them and now run them wired with PoE.
- Maybe this is same answer as above but I have an IP3M-941 amcrest camera that I've been unable to connect to my new orbi router. I'm thinking that it's because the orbi is using the 5ghz band instead of the 2.4 ghz which is not compatible with this camera. I saw an article on Reddit that may have been a way to force it but was a little concerned with trying that. Any help would be appreciated.
If your new to the IP cam scene, you have to hard wire the camera into your router and use the Amcrest IP config software to see the IP of the camera, then you can log into that camera using IE and in the settings select the wireless network for that camera.
- Orbiwan - Thanks much for your help!!!! Pointing me back to the IPCONFIG software at least put me on the right track - not exactly sure the exact steps I took to get there but it's all up and working again!!!!!!!! Now I just need to remember how to setup the PCNVR stuff again but that shouldn't be that big of a trick. Probably need to go about learning how to fix the IP address again - imagine that will cause problems in the future. Thanks again!!
Amcrest IP3m-941 cameras support both 2.4ghz as well as 5ghz. Mine always connect at 5ghz.