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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...
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.
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.
- Thanks for the explanation. I struggle to understand how a security camera could affect download speed, which is what most people care about. And the monitoring was from the hardwired pc through all this, not relying on the Orbi "self report"?
- Yeah, honestly, it's also odd that it could consume so much. Seems fairly old, my roommate didn't believe it at first either, said he had used it before with no issues. I don't know the camera. He has not mentioned anything. At the moment it's under the rug, and the camera is disabled. I'm sure we'll discuss alternatives in the future, or perhaps a new one. We're all home because if quarantine, so it's not enabled.