Roommmates security camera consuming 75% of our bandwidth. Orbi RBR50. Any way to vlan or limit it?

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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.

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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.