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Wifi? Is it illegally illegal to post for a wifi problem on here????

Tomgunn
Hi all,


Hope everyone's coping well!! 


OK, I bought an amazing security camera... unbelievably amazing for... just under £20! It does everything like, day and night vision, (only turn off the infrared thing as I am using an indoor security camera to cover the outside and if you have that selected it'll show up as some 10 spotlights reflecting back from the double glazing), that is also amazing! You can speak, and listen via it, and it'll record 24/7 via a micro 32GB SD card and it wipes the first on when it's full it also records to the 'cloud', (wherever that is... I guess I'll find it - eventually?).


You can watch it on anything anywhere and it's a plug and play system, with a little inputting... ANYWAYS, yes... it's fantastic and it's called a NEOS Smartcam, ( it's also known under a few differnt names as well).


So, all is good, yeah? Well... not quite. You see it needs a wifi connection. Down here, in my 'office' it's FAB but when I site it in my bedroom window, to cover the close, the wifi is hardly present.


I have a BT wifi unit, (a socket that connects to the router and an outlet for my digi TalkTalk box). BUT, when I use another BT system, that sends my wifi around the wiring... it just won't work and I think it may clash with the one feeding TT's box???


So, what's the best way to get wifi in the bedroom? 


I've looked and looked around and I don't like 'extenders'... or something that sends MORE wifi around the house, albeit 'directional'... so peep's what to do? 


I could use an internet cable but the camera doesn't have any attachment for it to plug into so there would need to be a 'device' / something, that would emit the wifi.


OK, sorry for the looooong post, hopefully someone, as I KNOW - you're all very clever lads, (and lassessess ?), out there!!


regards... Tom



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    Its not a power wiring problem but I don not see that it is that much of a deviation ?

    If the only way in and out of the camera involves wireless, then as you say, you need some radiating device, be it access point or repeater for it to attach to. If your preference is for minimum radio footprint then a cable to a low power repeater indoors just behind it would seem to be needed. At short range you can turn down the transmit power making it less obvious to passing hackers.

    You can re-radiate with the same base station ID (SSID) as the main netowork, or a new one. Or you can have a device that receives your home wi-fi and re-radiates as a new network. The real problem is knowing what is best.


    I'm assuming that moving the main house WiFi router (or its antennas at least) is not practical to get nearer, and a a bit of fiddling with camera location  is not going to win you enough.
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    "it also records to the 'cloud'"


    So now somebody can monitor your comings and goings! ?
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    Chris Pearson:

    "it also records to the 'cloud'"


    So now somebody can monitor your comings and goings! ?




    Haha, I guess so? I have nothing to hide and, haha, if they are so bored as to what I do then, good luck to them BUT, it only records 12 seconds' when the camera is 'triggered' when it see's, or hear's, something going on, in other words... it would only record something that looks suspicious... for 12 seconds' and than, after a few days', it's deleted. It's stored on the cloud if I need to use it so if anyone was to take the camera... I can find it, somewhere over a rainbow, on a low flying cloud!!


    Cheers...


     

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    mapj1:

    Its not a power wiring problem but I don not see that it is that much of a deviation ?

    If the only way in and out of the camera involves wireless, then as you say, you need some radiating device, be it access point or repeater for it to attach to. If your preference is for minimum radio footprint then a cable to a low power repeater indoors just behind it would seem to be needed. At short range you can turn down the transmit power making it less obvious to passing hackers.

    You can re-radiate with the same base station ID (SSID) as the main netowork, or a new one. Or you can have a device that receives your home wi-fi and re-radiates as a new network. The real problem is knowing what is best.


    I'm assuming that moving the main house WiFi router (or its antennas at least) is not practical to get nearer, and a a bit of fiddling with camera location  is not going to win you enough.




    Hello mapj1,


    You're spot on! I guess that that's the way forward... to find something that will act like a second router... the thing is, that worries me, is I'll be sleeping in a bedroom of microwaves? 


    Thanks...


     

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    Tomgunn:





    You're spot on! I guess that that's the way forward... to find something that will act like a second router... the thing is, that worries me, is I'll be sleeping in a bedroom of microwaves? 

     


     




     

    As part of your daily walk, nip into a supermarket and panic buy bacofoil 


    This afternoon, line your bedroom in foil, and as an extra precaution wrap up in it as well before you jump into bed


    Make yourself a tin foil hat and wear it constantly to protect your brain


    You'll be fine


    OMS
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    find something that will act like a second router



    If you can bring an Ethernet cable (from your main router/switch) to somewhere near then a "wireless access point" (WAP) will do what you want.


    Failing that a normal wifi repeater/booster is probably simplest.


       - Andy.
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    OMS:




    Tomgunn:





    You're spot on! I guess that that's the way forward... to find something that will act like a second router... the thing is, that worries me, is I'll be sleeping in a bedroom of microwaves? 

     


     




     

    As part of your daily walk, nip into a supermarket and panic buy bacofoil 


    This afternoon, line your bedroom in foil, and as an extra precaution wrap up in it as well before you jump into bed


    Make yourself a tin foil hat and wear it constantly to protect your brain


    You'll be fine


    OMS

     




    Hahaha, oh dear me... so, it's a case of either saving myself, from the wifi, (with the bacofoil), OR... dying of aluminum, (this could turn me into plonker), poisoning? Hahaha!


    Ok mush... off to the shop!


    Cheers me dear!! 


    Tom


     

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    AJJewsbury:




    find something that will act like a second router



    If you can bring an Ethernet cable (from your main router/switch) to somewhere near then a "wireless access point" (WAP) will do what you want.


    Failing that a normal wifi repeater/booster is probably simplest.


       - Andy.

     




    Thanks Andy... I'll look that all up, (after I've bought tons' of bacofoil)!!!


    Good luck!

     

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    To one 'n' all!

    We'll meet again, don't know where... don't know when; Good luck everyone!!
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    If you have existing powerline adaptors, then it's usually possible to add more.  But they have to be compatible, or they will interfere with each other.  In practice this means the same make, and even then check the manufacturer's instructions as there have been several generations of powerline adaptor over the years.


    Then any new ones have to be paired with the existing ones, so they all form one network and all talk to each other.  This is likely to involve some magic combination of button presses.

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