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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 co...
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.
- We came to an agreement. The roommate cared less about anything than just the fact I removed the device without asking him first, even though I'd been discussing the issue for days.
We will figure out. He'll either get another one, or something.
And I work cloud IT. I have the technical knowledge, it's just applying it here would be how.Hopefully you'll find a good working solution.
Good luck.
jaspolar wrote:
And I work cloud IT. I have the technical knowledge, it's just applying it here would be how.Arlo cameras store stuff in the Cloud. (Amazon's I think.)
You might look into D-Link cameras, there are some cameras that don't send to cloud and can be send to a PC or NAS devices on the local LAN side instead of going out to the WAN using up bandwidth.
jaspolar wrote:
We came to an agreement. The roommate cared less about anything than just the fact I removed the device without asking him first, even though I'd been discussing the issue for days.Still interested to hear (a) which camera this is and (b) how the bandwidth usage was measured.
- I was using speedtest both within Orbi and from wireless/wired devices. Orbi had been saying 440-480 for months. We thought cable provider was just jacked up.
I went and manually disabled every device within the Orbi app, and tested from a hardwired machine. Finally say 480mbs the orbi said. Manually reconnected each device, testing after. It was the camera that dropped it. All devices enabled but the camera, still 400+mbs. I would enable it, 100mbs.
