It is NOT “or”; it’s 2.4ghz WiFi6.
WiFi6 can be 2.4ghz WiFi6 or 5ghz WiFi6 or 6ghz WiFi6e. Similarly, WiFi5 can be 2.4ghz WiFi5 or 5ghz WiFi5. See the pattern?
V4s can connect at 2.4ghz WiFi5 or 2.4ghz WiFi6. Read the packaging again.
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how to check v4 uses wpa3?
on router i had to select wpa2/wpa3 because older devices use wpa2
i want v4 use wpa3
on phone i can chceck in settings wpa3 is used
how to check v4?
Wifi 6 and 6ghz are two totally separate things, as has been covered here multiple times. Wifi 6 does not include 6ghz, that is only available in Wifi 6E and 7.
Wifi 6 can be 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz. Wifi 6E and 7 can be 2.4Ghz, 5Ghz, or 6Ghz.
As far as older than that, Wifi 5 is 5Ghz only. Wifi 4 (N Wifi) has 2.4 and 5Ghz. Most IOT devices, even brand new ones, use the very old N 2.4Ghz,
All Wyze cams and the vast majority of IOT devices are 2.4ghz only, typically using N (Wifi 4).
Wifi 6/6e/7 does include some enhancements to the 2.4ghz band. Whether Wyze is taking advantage of any of that I’m not sure, but I highly doubt it, especially not at this price point. If the cam doesn’t support WPA3, it is likely it is using N 2.4 Ghz.
@p2788deal - good example given on the ghz vs band connections. I can back you with my 2 battery cam pros, 1 is operating 2.4ghz in the wifi 5 band and the other 5ghz in the wifi 5 band in the same mesh system. The 2.4ghz cam refused to setup in 5ghz while the other did without issue.
There is no such thing as 2.4 GHz on WIFI 5. WIFI 4, 6, and 7 have 2.4. 6 and 7 have some new tweaks to 2.4 but your cams are all probably using 2.4 GHz on WIFI 4 (N WiFi).
Don’t confuse frequency with WiFi version.
Edit to say, the battery cam pro does support 5Ghz, but according to the specs it is only Wifi 4’s version of 5ghz. So either way it is connecting using Wifi 4. Keep in mind 5ghz travels much shorter distances and is much more sensitive to walls and other obstacles.
Wyze Cam V4 is using a T41 Ingenic + ATBM6062 wifi chip so it is 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) capable. Based on the ATBM6062 spec sheet it should be WPA3 capable as well, but I don’t know if Cam V4 supports it.
Wifi 6 capable yes, 6Ghz capable, no (there seemed to be some confusion around that with another poster). According to their specs, it is 2.4ghz only too. If it is using the enhanced 2.4ghz with Wifi6/AX it may have better connectivity and higher link speed than other Wyze models, however the fact that it doesn’t support WPA3 implies it probably isn’t taking advantage of any of that, or possibly not even using WIFI6 at all. Someone with a router that reports stats like that would have to see what PHY it is using.
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That’s why I specified 802.11ax. FCC did a WLAN test and it is confirmed to be supported, but I don’t know about the WPA3 capability.
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I ha e the tp-link deco x55 wifi6/mesh and they connected just fine with the default config.
Maybe its aomething with the default settings for the 2.4 with your manufacturer
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@dave27 - sorry dave, I posted what is being specifically identified for the BCP’s in my TP Link XE75 6e mesh. There is nothing identified as 4 in any documentation I have. The 2.4 and 5 are combined. 6/6e available but currently wireless backhaul. Separate 2.4ghz IoT from the combined 2.4/5. One BCP is identified as having 2.4ghz connection on 5ghz wifi band and the other is identified as 5ghz connection on 5ghz wifi band. Almost literally quoted from the mesh internal specs. I am not a trained IT but have some knowledge. Maybe you can convince TP Link it is not accurately identifying compatibility in its mesh system.
after july 2020 wpa3 is mandatory to get wifi 6 certification
That’s for using their “Wi-Fi CERTIFIED” logo brand. Not a lot of companies want to pony up the cash for their membership in order to the logo unless you’re like Ring, Apple, Panasonic, etc (huge companies).
The good news is that the wifi chipset I suspect V4 is using ATBM6062 (Altobeam) certified it with Wi-Fi.org. I guess they needed that to sell it to other vendors and manufacturers.
I bought the camera to connect to Wi-Fi 6 it’s still a false advertisement I’m going to stick with reolink cuz they can connect to Wi-Fi 6 band
You can’t have 2.4ghz connected to the 5ghz band.
All standards after 4 are backwards compatible to 4 (802.11N) and even as far back as the original 802.11B. On an AXe (6e) router, the 2.4ghz could be doing either N or AX. Since your BCP does not support AX, it is connecting at N (probably 150 or 300 mbit on 5ghz and 75 or 150 on 2.4ghz, depending on how many streams it supports).
Not familiar with that TP link model but there may be a screen where you can see specific info on the client and the PHY and data rate it is connected at. Just looking under an SSID or general client list may not tell you much, depending how you have the SSIDs configured.
What makes you think it isn’t connecting to Wifi 6? Wifi 6 supports 2.4ghz with enhancements over the previous Wifi4.
If you mean 6ghz, I highly doubt any camera supports that, the distance is so short and the bandwidth is unnecessary for even the highest quality cams, not to mention the extreme cost and higher power consumption.
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So much confusion. Wonder if it gets worse when we get 6G cell service?
He’s been repeatedly told that. He firmly believes WiFi 6 means 6ghz.
And yet he quotes an article saying Wifi 6E is the only one that supports 6ghz, and the wyze cam clearly says Wifi6, not 6E. So I guess no reason to try to teach anything to someone that won’t listen to multiple people saying the same thing.
I hate the friendly names they’ve given to wifi now. It confuses people far too much. They should have stuck with N, AC, AX, AXe, BE. I get the reasoning and it would be fine, if they didn’t overlap with frequencies and also cellular technologies.
But the router manufacturers just care about selling stuff, the same reason they advertise combined speeds of multiple bands (which isn’t actually possible except with Wifi7 on the very latest client devices), speeds that can only be obtained with very rare 4 stream clients, etc. Plus the fact that even if you can hit that PHY rate, your throughput will be typically only 2/3 of that rate max due to the way Wifi works.
@techgorilla if you really want to know what you’re getting and not end up wasting money on another brand that will probably give you the same thing, look through the info that has been provided.
To make it simple:
Wifi 4 also known as N wifi supports 2.4ghz up to 150 mbit and 5ghz up to 300 mbit (there are faster versions but they are edge cases, these are the common ones). Most cams are single stream only so divide the numbers above in half, then in half again due to the way wifi works. So in reality, about 40-50 megs max on 2.4 ghz, and 75-100 on 5ghz.
Wifi 5 also known as AC wifi supports 5ghz only (coincidence, they didn’t start calling it Wifi 5 until long after it was released). it can get up to about 1.7 gigs on 5ghz, but most devices will connect at far, far lower rates than that, 866 and 433 are the most common. Nearly all Wifi 5/AC routers also have a 2.4Ghz N/WIFI 4 radio built in to allow 2.4ghz devices to connect (at the speeds mentioned under the N 2.4 section above).
Wifi 6/AX wifi supports both 2.4ghz and 5ghz. Data rates and capacity for both are faster than previous standards and other improvements/features have been added. Devices not supporting AX will connect at AC/WIFI 5 or N/WIFI 4 speeds on 5ghz and N speeds on 2.4ghz (all versions of wifi are backwards compatible to previous versions, unless you specifically disable the legacy ones). The v4 specifically says it uses 2.4Ghz Wifi6 so it should connect at a bit higher data rate, maybe as high as 150mbit instead of 75. But the speed doesn’t matter, these cams use a few megabits, nowhere near even the limits of Wifi4. But the cameras may benefit from the other enhancements 2.4Ghz Wifi 6 brings.
Wifi6e (AXe wifi) is the same as 6 but adds the 6ghz band. 6ghz client devices are very rare, it is mostly used for backhaul between routers/nodes. I highly doubt there are any cams out there from any brand using 6ghz.
Wifi7 (BE wifi) supports 2.4, 5, and 6ghz with further speed improvements on all and even the ability to bond multiple frequency bands together and get significantly more capacity (as high as 40 gigs PHY rate or 20-30 gigs actual throughput, in theory). These client devices are even more rare, and no IOT devices are going to have it.