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Outside WiFi cams ignoring sats & going to router?
I just got a rbk23 kit (1 rb20 router & 2 sats), my house is 2000sqft single family, my outdoor wifi cams(1 on each corner -4total) are 2.4/5ghz WiFi... They keep connecting to the router in middle of...
Seems that your cameras do not support roaming and they just connect to the first basestation that becomes available (which is the router) and never makes measurements to decide if there are better basestations to roam to. Check if the cameras support (802.11k/802.11v/802.11r)
- Try switching off a camera and then switch it on and see where it will connect.
- Try switching off the router for few seconds and then on to see if the cameras will decide to change to the satellites.
It can also be that the cameras don't like the 5GHz channel that you set in the router (because it's used by neighbours) and goes for the 2.4 GHz channel.
- Try changing the 5 GHz to another channel as suggested by FURRYe38.
- Try also to reduce the power of only the 2.4GHz channels to very low value and see if the cameras will behave differently.
I took all of furrys advice, lowered 2.4ghz to 75%, but kept 5ghz full strength... disabled all the Items he listed.
So far entire day since then, all is working good!
I’ll experiment with adding back roaming for few days... & then adding back beamforming, then mimmo, etc.
So far entire day since then, all is working good!
I’ll experiment with adding back roaming for few days... & then adding back beamforming, then mimmo, etc.