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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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    Be careful with the powerline comms devices (PLC or PLT ) - they are both vulnerable to, and can create, interference in a way that a well engineered wired or  radio communiciiton system does not. Very few buildings have mains wiring that forms an optimal lossless transmission line, and quite a lot of that signal is radiated and similarly quite a lot is picked up.

    That is not to say they cannot be made to work, just that there are some locations where they are very unsatisfactory, and they are not very secure.


    Testing I am aware of does not show extension leads to be a problem of absolute signal strength as such, more that one is adding an uncontrolled antenna and a length of wire of another characteristic impedance, so the SNR falls, as the noise rises, rather than the signal falls.  Actually I have also seen a demo of a pair of TPlink devices working with one plugged into the mains as normal. and the other just on an isolated  table top powerd from a battery  inverter and a 4 way block, sharing  the PLT module and a small artificial Christmas tree and lights. It was a good demo, if anyone ever doubted it, that it is not really a wired system in the true sense, and radio is a large part of it.
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    Be careful with the powerline comms devices (PLC or PLT ) - they are both vulnerable to, and can create, interference in a way that a well engineered wired or  radio communiciiton system does not. Very few buildings have mains wiring that forms an optimal lossless transmission line, and quite a lot of that signal is radiated and similarly quite a lot is picked up.

    That is not to say they cannot be made to work, just that there are some locations where they are very unsatisfactory, and they are not very secure.


    Testing I am aware of does not show extension leads to be a problem of absolute signal strength as such, more that one is adding an uncontrolled antenna and a length of wire of another characteristic impedance, so the SNR falls, as the noise rises, rather than the signal falls.  Actually I have also seen a demo of a pair of TPlink devices working with one plugged into the mains as normal. and the other just on an isolated  table top powerd from a battery  inverter and a 4 way block, sharing  the PLT module and a small artificial Christmas tree and lights. It was a good demo, if anyone ever doubted it, that it is not really a wired system in the true sense, and radio is a large part of it.
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