I have four V3 cameras. Two of them are on my terrace about 10 ft from the router. One of them connects and then disconnects… connects and disconnects repeatedly. Usually I have to unplug the power and then plug it back in to get it to connect for 5 minutes and then it disconnects. The other one does it once in awhile. Anybody have any ideas why this product should not be thrown in the trash
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Donate them to a local high school.
Sounds like WiFi interference to me.
Maybe bring them inside, 10ft or so from the router. If fail occurs, move to 5ft.
Use warranty if you can.
V3s have good WiFi chips. I have one over 30 feet away and it’s reliable.
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Me too but what about possible wifi interference? As @habib mentions.
Personally, I prefer V3 over V4.
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That’s exactly what I was getting at; there’s another factor in play.
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I plugged in a third V3 to test. No problems at all.
what router are you running? and how many devices do you have connected to it? I had a similar problems years ago. im wondering if it is that
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Didn’t cross my mind that most consumer grade routers only support around 30 devices successfully even though they might advertise more than that. Very good point 
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10 feet through an exterior wall is very different from 10 feet indoors. Add to that normal 2.4ghz interference and it could certainly just be “expected” (but not un-fixable). Note that over time, wifi chipsets degrade with use, so a newer camera may not show the issues for a year or two. Heat is the #1 killer and these cams are not well ventilated, and outdoors will be exposed to heat too.
There are various settings in most consumer routers that are often enabled by default that can cause problems. Two that always come to mind are “universal beamforming” and “airtime fairness”. In 99% of cases those do more harm than good. Heck even a reboot of the router might help, it will scan the channels and may pick a better one (or you can use an app to try and pick a channel with the least other networks on it, but unfortunately that does not tell you what interference there is, which is a much bigger problem). The router’s start up scan does look for interference and should try to pick the best channel, assuming the interference is constant and not occasional.
Of course, if you’re using an ISP router, their wireless is notoriously bad, almost universally across the board with all models. Could be as simple as getting a better wifi router or hanging a good AP off their router.
But we can’t rule out that the cams have just hit their “usable life”, not sure how old they are? Based on your description, it sounds like 1 cam may be going bad, another is possibly just coincidence if it isn’t frequent (it is at a different angle from the router or closer to some interference), or may be starting to show the signs.
Thank you for your in-depth response. I will swap out the camera that is not routinely connecting with another one that works fine and see what happens.
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I finally solved the problem. The cameras were connecting to a repeater and not to the original router which is much farther away, but when I reset them to connect to the router, so far, they have stayed connected!
Thanks to everyone for their ideas.
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