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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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    > have a pair of plug in boxes,


    As some have commented, you can only have one standard in the system at any one time.

    They are generally designated as AV100/AV200 ... AV 600 

    being the max speed and protocol they are using.


    In general you can use any of teh same AVxxx standard together, though it makes sense to use from the same manufacturer.

    You can also get ones that terminate only in an ethernet (cable) socket, and ones that are also Wifi Access Point (repeater) units - so suitable to connect a wifi only box such as your camera to. They will need a PC at some point to configure the Wifi SSID/key.


    The other gotcha is that they need hard mains wiring, i.e. plugged into a wall socket,

    the moment you put them on an extension /flexible lead they lose signal (rapidly)


    Solutions there are:

    a) find a compatible mains-wiring extender (ideally wifi output)

    b) ethernet cable to a Wifi "Access Point" (which creates a local wifi signal again)

        (if they are not readily / cost effectively available, you can use an old/cheap Wifi router

          and turn off the internal DHCP server and plug into the LAN side, and it will repeat to the wifi side)




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    > have a pair of plug in boxes,


    As some have commented, you can only have one standard in the system at any one time.

    They are generally designated as AV100/AV200 ... AV 600 

    being the max speed and protocol they are using.


    In general you can use any of teh same AVxxx standard together, though it makes sense to use from the same manufacturer.

    You can also get ones that terminate only in an ethernet (cable) socket, and ones that are also Wifi Access Point (repeater) units - so suitable to connect a wifi only box such as your camera to. They will need a PC at some point to configure the Wifi SSID/key.


    The other gotcha is that they need hard mains wiring, i.e. plugged into a wall socket,

    the moment you put them on an extension /flexible lead they lose signal (rapidly)


    Solutions there are:

    a) find a compatible mains-wiring extender (ideally wifi output)

    b) ethernet cable to a Wifi "Access Point" (which creates a local wifi signal again)

        (if they are not readily / cost effectively available, you can use an old/cheap Wifi router

          and turn off the internal DHCP server and plug into the LAN side, and it will repeat to the wifi side)




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