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WyzeCam and 5G incompatibility Orbi
I am getting constant drops on my wyze cam that is 5 ft from a satellite. Wyze support says it's because the orbi is connecting the 5g network. The asked me to use 2.4 but as far as I can tell Orbi do...
I have the same issue - I just call it the rollercoaster effect. When the cameras first connect - they have a 70 - 130 kb/s video stream. Then it starts going down to 0 kb/s within a couple of seconds. Then after a couple of more seconds it starts going back up - so up and down and up and down like a roller coaster. I have sent a request to Wyze for assistance and thought I would check here as well. I did have another Netgear router and extender and this problem did not exist there - but unfortunately I kept running into IP conflicts so I swapped out the router and extender with the Orbi RBR50 and satellite. While the IP conflicts have gone away - the Wyze cameras are now 'rollercoastering'. Any assistance would be appreciated.
Crazy_Canuck wrote:I have the same issue - I just call it the rollercoaster effect. When the cameras first connect - they have a 70 - 130 kb/s video stream. Then it starts going down to 0 kb/s within a couple of seconds. Then after a couple of more seconds it starts going back up - so up and down and up and down like a roller coaster.
I have always wondered about these Wyze Cams, so I got one today. After getting it installed and updating firmware, I observed the same phenomenon: stream rate steadily dropped to zero. Aha! By accident, I tapped on "View Playback" and then "View Live Stream". Now it has been streaming for 10 minutes. (Need to find a way to turn off that irritating green box.) So, it does not appear that connecting one Wyze Cam to an Orbi WiFi network will reproduce the problem.