Unreliable Wifi CCTV connection
I'm a (Long time) retired IT professional. I have installed a CPE210 in Access Point mode for a friend with some security issues. It is hard wired to one of the router ethernet ports via the POE adapter. The problem I have is, I need to connect a solar powered wifi cctv camera that is inside a garage about 25m from the externally mounted hard wired CPE210 and yet the signal reported by the CCTV software is only around 50-60% at best poor and connection is intermittent. The only thing I can imagine is the camera is mount slightly higher than the unit by about 1 meter, could this be the cause of such a poor signal? The output power is set to max and the unit has a static IP address and DHCP disabled using the router DHCP. Max stream is NOT enabled. I've tried tilting the unit slightly upwards with little effect.
Hi @MarkHomer
CPE210 wifi range is very limited. I believe that 1 meter matters.
Below is the wifi angle of CPE210:
You may relocate the cameras to get a better wifi signal.
Hi @MarkHomer
CPE210 wifi range is very limited. I believe that 1 meter matters.
Below is the wifi angle of CPE210:
You may relocate the cameras to get a better wifi signal.
It is not possible to relocate the camera as the purpose is to protect the content of the garage.
The unit is pointing directly at the garage and 40° elevation should therefore give reasonable coverage at that distance. Is that 20° up and down or just 40° below horizontal? I.e. points down only?
If the CPE210 WiFi range is very limited, which product should I have used? Note. It has to be 2.4Ghz and not 5Ghz
Vincent-TP wrote
Hi @MarkHomer
CPE210 wifi range is very limited. I believe that 1 meter matters.
Below is the wifi angle of CPE210:
You may relocate the cameras to get a better wifi signal.