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Roommmates security camera consuming 75% of our bandwidth. Orbi RBR50. Any way to vlan or limit it?
Hi all,
We had been having issues at my house with slow network speeds. The Orbi was saying 443mb/s, but we were seeing fractions of that. After investigation with a hardline and device by device connection, we found that a security camera a roommate put in his room was sucking up all the bandwidth. If this device is connected, hardwire connections drop down to 100-140mb/s, and wifi drops down to 20mb/s.
What options are available to us in segregating this device? There's 5 users in the house, so to have 1 device consuming 75% of the bandwidth is flat unacceptable for the rest of us, and we need to find a solution that permits the rest of us to have bandwidth, but his security camera still function. He's mega paranoid after an assistant to the pool cleaner was caught robbing the house. Right now the guest network is off. Can we enable the guest network and limit that device? Is there VLAN tagging that can be done for that IP camera? RBR50 Router with 2 satellites. Any help would be great.
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Whats the Mfr and model# of the ISP modem the RBR is connected too. The RBR50 is not a modem.
There is Traffic Meter however it only tracks the over all usage of the entire system and bandwidth. Not per device.
Only other item I might suggest would be a firelwall appliance device infront of the RBR and then set the Orbi system to AP mode. Use the firewall appliace to help regulate the bandwidth. Not sure which firewall appicance that would have these features. There are many.
You might ask this user to see if he might have any recommendations:
You will need to change the configuration of the security camera. You do not state if it is streaming video to the cloud 24/7, but if it is, then this is probably why your bandwidth is being consumed rapidly by it.
You can change various options, such as:
- reduce resolution of the stream to the cloud (i.e. stream 640x480 rather than 4K)
- change streaming to the cloud to instead stream to a NAS or local network share path, then your ISP bandwidth is not consumed by the camera
- configure it to only stream video when motion is detected
tomschmidt wrote:
You will need to change the configuration of the security camera. You do not state if it is streaming video to the cloud 24/7, but if it is, then this is probably why your bandwidth is being consumed rapidly by it.
I'm with tomschmidt.
Tackle this from the camera end and don't mess around with routers and stuff. Why should you have to jump through hoops to get decent Internet? If the worst comes to the worst, then block the IP/MAC address of that camera.
Better, tell the house mate to get a camera that is not antisocial.
Something simple like and Arlo Q Plus isn't going to eat bandwidth. It can also record locally and will leap into action only when something happens.
I'm relying on my roommates information, as it is configured in his room. I'll try to get more information for you. If there is a cable modem preceding it, we may have more options. I'll have to wait for the house meeting tonight.
jaspolar wrote:Hi all,
We had been having issues at my house with slow network speeds. The Orbi was saying 443mb/s, but we were seeing fractions of that. After investigation with a hardline and device by device connection, we found that a security camera a roommate put in his room was sucking up all the bandwidth. If this device is connected, hardwire connections drop down to 100-140mb/s, and wifi drops down to 20mb/s.
What internet speed are you paying for?
How are you measuring network speed? Using a web site such as SpeedTest.net or Fast.com? Or, looking at device reports on the Orbi "app".
When the Orbi app report is the "Link Rate" of the connection, not the actual realized throughput.
Good luck with the house meeting. If the camera is affecting everybody, that is by definition "Everybody", including the person with the camera. My security cameras have settings for when to record and what resolution to use. Also, a "security" camera that is intended to document intrusions would seem to be superfluous when the owner is in the house. It would be interesting to know which camera this is. Surely it's not a breach of security to report that an unknown person in an unknown location owns a (Wyze Cam? Nest Cam? ...)
As a last observation, when I stream one of my cameras to my cell phone through the internet, it uses a maximum of 250Kb/s, which is one fourth of a megabit. And, it's all going "up" and has no effect on the "down" performance that most of us are using all day long.
