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We have a device sucking up more than half our bandwidth. Solutions? Orbi RBR50 mesh
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 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.
It would be helpful to know the brand and model of camera. Camera bandwidth is a function of resolution and frame rate. Typical WiFi cameras consume under 1MB/sec. I have one hard wired 12MB camera that has two settings:
- Clear (High), which is 4,096x2,784 pixels at 20fps and has a maximum bandwidth of 10MB/sec
- Fluent (Low) which is 896x672 pixels at 10fps and consumer 768KB/sec
Typical security cameras do not stream constantly.
There may be something else affecting bandwidth.