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Wifi outages and instability with latest firmware V2.0.0.74
Hello I am experiencing wifi outages following my upgrade to V2.0.0.74. In my network I have 9 wifi cameras that stream to a dvr. At any given time there is a constant demand between 15 to 20 mb...
What model(s) are the cameras? You might just be overlaoding the 2.4 G channel. Did you try lowering the bitrate, or shutting down a couple cameras, to see if that solves the issue?
There is another user on here that was trying to push 8 cameras at 4 Mbps each (32 Mbps) using 802.11g on 2.4. He was having issues as well, whcih I would expect given that 802.11g sync speed is only 54 Mbps.
I have a mix of hikvision cameras. Most of them are DS-2CD2432F. I have reduced the bandwidth to the minium actually that still has enough acceptable resolution and quality. I had gone through the drill long time ago and have kept the same settings for some time now. The average utilization that I see is around 15Mbps, its not too extreme. On top of that I am streaming as well easily 30 to 40Mbps plex content across the network (those are on 5G) so I dont experience any bottlenecks. From speed tests with iperf I get around 100Mbps to my home theater across the house while cameras are recording so there is plenty of bandwidth. The only thing that has changed the past weeks is firmware.
Before with 1.X (latest version) it got super stable and had no issues for days and weeks both cameras and plex streaming seamless. Latelly with 2.0 I get those hickups and gets to a meltdown. Reboot eventually fixes it.