Live View is NOT Live

When I am the fringe of my WiFi my phone will switch to LTE, unfortunately these cameras don’t have that option so they’ll just drop the connection.

Yeah I have a fairly small “ring of dial up speeds” around near my property line where the phone will hold on a bit longer than it should (and that’s after tweaking it to be more aggressive). It will work, it just doesn’t have much bandwidth. Couple feet in one direction it switches to 5G, couple feet in the other and the signal is perfectly fine again. I have my APs set to kick devices when they hit -75dbm and for the most part it works as expected, but there’s a couple spots where it is literally right on that fringe. I used to have it at -70 which was better but I have one cam on my garage that fluctuates between -68 and -72 so had to bump it up for that one (usually works perfectly fine at -72). Actually when mounted upside down (Panv3) it was like -60 but rightside up, I’m guessing the antenna is in the bottom section and that cut the signal some.

I used to have two outdoor APs on the front and back of my house but decided that was overkill. Have one wired connection in the garage for my old “working on cars” laptop. Could toss an AP on it but just haven’t seen the need. At one time my home network was severely overkill, which isn’t hard when working in the industry, but decided to simplify my life (and cut my electric bill).

A single AP mounted on my 3rd floor ceiling covers the entire house and just about all of my fairly small 1/4 acre property. That’s with aluminum siding and foil faced insulation too.

That is the reason I am holding on to my Eeros, at both properties. For such a small units they have an amazing coverage. At home I have it in my office which is at the back of the house. The signal reaches to the front of the garage which is one the opposite side of the house some sixty feet away through two drywall walls, cinder brick and insulated steel garage door. At the cottage I get signal all the way to the dock which is about 150 feet from the router. No APs or mesh satellites at either location.

I just switched ISPs at home and Rogers sent me an Xfinity XB8 (Gen 3) and I thought I’d give it a try. Can barely make it in the garage. Put it in a bridge mode and connected the Eero and all is good again. I am going to return it and put back my Terchicolor TC4400 back in business. No point paying Rogers $10 a month to rent that monstrosity :slight_smile:

Not sure if that’s still an Arris or not. Never could figure out why Arris was so good at making completely garbage wifi. It’s like they constantly went out of their way to make it bad.

To top it off, Rogers gives you a phone app to access it and it’s pure crap. The only good thing about it is that it recognizes whatever is connected to the network by model and manufacturer. Another good thing is that it has remote management like Eero app has. The web interface has everything that one needs but most of the stuff is greyed out (disabled by Rogers).

Yeah Comcast uses the same app, you can’t change anything (well you can’t in the web interface either). But you can shut off the kids wifi when it is dinner time, at least that’s the feature they push in the commercials :roll_eyes:

Yeah, that won’t fly with my kids 32 and 35 years old :slight_smile:

One just moved back home temporary after splitting with her boyfriend and she’s the reason for changing ISPs. for her gaming. Went from 1Gbps/50Mbps to 2Gbps/200Mbps for $20 less a month. Blessing in diguise :wink:

Ah I see rogers follows the comcast model (makes sense, basically the same company) of forcing you to get totally useless download speed just to get a reasonable upload speed.

They’ve been rolling out Mid Split around here where they finally give you a more reasonable upload speed on the lower plans, but still not symmetrical. I’m more than happy with my 300/300 fiber for $25 a month. Ditched Comcast around 2013 or so and never looked back. Literally when they were stringing the fiber here I was yelling to the guy in the bucket “hey, how long til I can sign up”.

I was going to go with Bell and symmetrical 300/300 but Rogers gave me the new Nokia Fastmile 12 for the cottage at no additional cost. It is the newest gateway that supports 250Mbps/10Mbps vs. 100Mbps/10Mbps with the Fastmile 5. I have 30 day cancellation window. I’m going next week to test it at the cottage. If I don’t get better speeds I’ll ditch Rogers at home and go with 300/300 fibre. My daughter won’t be happy as she thinks she needs more than that for her gaming. I keep on telling her that the 2Gbps is useless unless she upgrades her NIC or gets an adapter. Even then the Xfinity has only one 2.5GB port :zany_face:

Well you can get her a 2.5G switch and NIC for her birthday, so she can get exactly the same speeds she’s getting now. Since all the gamers have to download the latest update or new game within 3 milliseconds of its release, they choke the infrastructure.

Did you get your daughter started on gaming early. My daughter is 32 and I remember getting her (when she was a toddler) Pajama Sam and Putt Putt games that ran on a Win 95 computer.

I was thinking to that but let see if I will keep the service first.

Yes I did, both of them were on my computer since they could hold a mouse in their tiny hands. My oldest was a YouTube influencer for few years, plying online games and live streaming them while other kids all over the world were watching her. She had over two million subscribers and made crap load of money. She bought herself a $7 million penthouse in the tallest building in downtown Toronto. She still lives there with her fiance but she stopped being influencer couple years ago. She invested her money in various companies.

My granddaughter is one year old. I want to get her this Humongous Classic Collection, but my daughter says I have to wait until granddaughter is 18 months to have screen time.

How did we survive without being able to research on the internet 30+ years ago how to raise children?

People watch people playing games? :confused:

We used to go to that building that had a sign that said “Public Library” :grin:

Now public libraries have 3D printers. Just not the one close to my place.

Very true. Also, the Encyclopedia Brittannica was a wealth of information.

I love the smell of old books in the morning. :nerd_face:

Basically the solar salesmen of years past.

I have one, but haven’t gotten around to learn how to use it. Actually, how to use the 3D software. Too lazy and too busy with life in general.