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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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    Andy88:

    There was also increasing evidence that since the move to electronic meters rather than the old electromechanical ones that Powerline extenders go way beyond ones home or other peoples homes to you.

    i.e. you could plug one device of a compatible type (by chance) into you home and instantly see your neighbours network ('free' internet)


    So from a network interference / security perspective you 'may' want to use a local cable also.

    The use of smart (electronic) meters may have improved the blocking of signals (as the old big coil meters did) but I doubt it.

     




    Hello Andy, well... there's a fing! Good stuff!!


    Back in, circa... 1979/80-ish? We used to be invited for drinks, across the road here, (it's a medium sized close with about 10 houses'... everyone know's everyone's business, haha PLUS, most of their 'secret's'... AND, we paid an OUTRAGEOUS price for this house, I mean it was a SCANDALOUS amount... £14,500!!!!!), and what we'd do, (it's the only time, three or four time, we did this... like on holiday's / anywhere, where WE went our kids WENT, (if you know what I mean?).


    Vicky is our first born, 1977, so she would be around three BUT, I would NEVER do this again, if I / we went back there!!!!


    I was in the electrical wholesalers and I bought a pair of plugs that you would plug into one plug and then put the other one into another plug and you could hear Vicky sleeping. The only reason, and as I have said, we'd never do this again, we would go over there was that I found that by plugging this 'plug' into Vicky's bedroom... and then plugging it into the neighbour's socket outlet we could hear Vicky was sleeping ok!! 


    Amazing little plug, (no, not Vicky, haha), but... I think we must have been on the same phase, as the other house, as I guess it wouldn't have worked?


    But now? We have soooo many devices that it's amazing but, I guess their's a 'price' to pay for these??


    Anyways, thanks again for the feedback and I'll come back, when I've sorted out what I end up with, hoping it'll help other's too!


      



     

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    Andy88:

    There was also increasing evidence that since the move to electronic meters rather than the old electromechanical ones that Powerline extenders go way beyond ones home or other peoples homes to you.

    i.e. you could plug one device of a compatible type (by chance) into you home and instantly see your neighbours network ('free' internet)


    So from a network interference / security perspective you 'may' want to use a local cable also.

    The use of smart (electronic) meters may have improved the blocking of signals (as the old big coil meters did) but I doubt it.

     




    Hello Andy, well... there's a fing! Good stuff!!


    Back in, circa... 1979/80-ish? We used to be invited for drinks, across the road here, (it's a medium sized close with about 10 houses'... everyone know's everyone's business, haha PLUS, most of their 'secret's'... AND, we paid an OUTRAGEOUS price for this house, I mean it was a SCANDALOUS amount... £14,500!!!!!), and what we'd do, (it's the only time, three or four time, we did this... like on holiday's / anywhere, where WE went our kids WENT, (if you know what I mean?).


    Vicky is our first born, 1977, so she would be around three BUT, I would NEVER do this again, if I / we went back there!!!!


    I was in the electrical wholesalers and I bought a pair of plugs that you would plug into one plug and then put the other one into another plug and you could hear Vicky sleeping. The only reason, and as I have said, we'd never do this again, we would go over there was that I found that by plugging this 'plug' into Vicky's bedroom... and then plugging it into the neighbour's socket outlet we could hear Vicky was sleeping ok!! 


    Amazing little plug, (no, not Vicky, haha), but... I think we must have been on the same phase, as the other house, as I guess it wouldn't have worked?


    But now? We have soooo many devices that it's amazing but, I guess their's a 'price' to pay for these??


    Anyways, thanks again for the feedback and I'll come back, when I've sorted out what I end up with, hoping it'll help other's too!


      



     

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