I’m looking for upgrading my home network. My nighthawk XR1000v2 has been super the past few years at total house wifi coverage, with minimal connection issued to my garage. I have since swapped out my v3 camera with a pan/scan v4 on the garage wall. That camera is great, but man does it need a lot of signal to work. My wireless is not strong enough to reach and maintain a steady stream without massive lag now.
I tried a network mesh extender but none of the cameras would connect to the device. So I got rid of it
The wifi speeds were technically slow for a wifi 6 router.
I found an orbi 370 mesh router that had 3 sattelites. This wifi is wifi 7 and made my other router look slow in comparison around the house. But none of the cameras connect to the sattelites. Netgear support sucks at troubleshooting the issue.
Does anyone know of any mesh networks that allow these wyze cameras to actually connect and work? I am not looking to have multiple SSID’s around my house. (Other than two; a single 5g wireless network, and a 2.4g wireless network)
I can recommend TP-Link I’ve tried half a dozens mesh system in the past few years. Bought different and sold the old ones on eBay. Get one of the 3-band model. I’ve had the Deco XE75. But I waited until Prime and bought a set of the BE63’s WiFi 7. Did I see a lot of difference in the 7 over the 6E? No, But now I know.
For you, there’s two benefits. One 6E or 7 give you the third band, 6 GHz. And its dedicated to traffic between nodes. That takes the traffic off the 5 GHz band, allowing game consoles and TVs more space.
The other benefit is TP-Link. What I found that’s what you want - is you can assign a device MAC address to a specific node and it stays there. Put a node in the area where your V3 is and you can virtually assign its MAC to that node. Be aware, if that node drops offline, the camera does not switch to another. Which you can also consider a hint that your node is down, when you can’t view from the camera.
With Black Friday coming, you are going to likely see 30+% off too.
im still using the Wyze pro router And the only time I have issues is when I walk down the block to a neighbors house which is a ridiculous length that I really shouldn’t have signal at. Do you have a lot of electronic interference at your house or maybe What is your material of your house made of? I know in testing routers that stucco is a huge issue for Wi-fi signal. Have you looked at your interference using like a Wi-fi analyzer and measured around your property see how your signal varies?
The lag you’re seeing may not be entirely a consequence of your current Wi-Fi source(s), and I wonder what your Signal Strength (in Cam Pan v4’s Settings ➜ Device Info) shows. You can see the number of “bars” there or tap the symbol to see a numeric value. I realize that this may not be entirely instructive, but I mention it because even when I have a Cam Pan v4 in the same room as my Wi-Fi gateway and it’s got a good 5 GHz signal, I can still see significant lag, especially when I start panning and tilting the camera’s view. I think that’s more of a camera problem than a signal problem—especially when the 4K stream is selected in live view (and my understanding is that the “Auto” setting will try to stream at 4K if it “thinks” the camera’s signal will support it)—and I hope it’s something Wyze can mitigate to some degree with a future firmware update.
Having said all that, I’ve also been considering a mesh upgrade at some point, and TP-Link (I haven’t yet researched different models) would probably be at or near the top of my list based on a family member’s experience and what other community members have reported.
Agree with the TP Link XE75. I’ve had mine up and running for about 1½ years now. I like the fact that the devices get assigned to the nodes with the best signal strength or you can assign manually if it appears the auto assign is off compared to the location of the cameras.
Definitely not on board with the movement to try and blacklist and ban TP Link because of Chinese ownership.
