Just installed NetGear Powerline extender, refurb for $70.00. Detached garage, camera mounted under the eave of the garage, was always getting dropped signals, cant connect etc. Installed router end, then the extension in the garage, good as gold. It uses the wiring in your house to broadcast the receiver, then out of that…
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I have an older Asus AC router that I haven’t used since we went to a different internet provider. It was new enough that I was able to easily convert it to a Repeater. I have 2 items in my man cave that do not do wireless, so I Ethernet them to the Asus and then I can wifi my tablet and cell to the main router. In doing so, I also found that the main house router had both 2.4G and 5G set up with the same SSID. I split the 2.4G and 5G on both routers to separate SSID’s. So far, my speed tests have more than doubled and I now have only 1 cam that seems to be dropping out but only at night.
But if you have an older router, it may be possible to set it up as a repeater. On a older Linksys, I found a firmware update that I was able to use, or like my Asus, it may be configurable. But also check your SSID’s. I found that some of my computers and TV’s were picking the 2.4G instead of the 5G which was slowing my 2.4G cams down.
So these really work?
of course
Happy there is talk about repeaters here. I just received my Wyze Cam Outdoor cameras. I had already purchased and installed a Setek repeater but it has a different network name. With a ton of ‘Wyze sensors and cams already working well on my Wyze App, will the outdoor cams that I connect via the repeater show up in the same list in my Wyze App as the rest of my devices that are on the main network? I’m currently charging the cameras so thought it would be a good time to ask what I should expect.
The WCO connects to the base station which needs a wired internet connection. Whether that wired connection is from your router or your repeater (if it has a LAN port to act as a wireless to ethernet bridge) shouldn’t matter. The key is to place the WCO within range of the base station which is what the WCO communicates with.
Once setup is complete the WCO and base station will show up in the Wyze app alongside all your other devices.
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Thank you for your reply. The base station doesn’t show up because it’s plugged into the LAN on the extender, which is listed as a separate network. The WCO does show up but it paired with the other base station. Another interesting thing is that the second WCO will not connect to the first base station without the second base station being powered on and connected to the WiFi extender. I’m baffled. I really need the second WCO to work at the opposite end of the house and it won’t reach when paired with base station number one. Super annoying.
If you have two WCOs and two base stations you can either pair both WCOs to the same base station (if both WCOs will be in range of that base station), or pair each WCO with different base stations (if they need to be placed too far apart to share a base station).
It sounds like you have each WCO paired with different base stations, in which case both base stations must be wired to your router or a repeater LAN port. Can you clarify where each base station is connected and if both WCOs work if both base stations are connected?
Base station number one is connected to the main Wi-Fi router through the LAN port on the north end of the house. The WCO for that bass station is connected to it and both the base station and the WCO are visible within the Wyze app, along with my other devices. Base station two is positioned at the south end of the house and plugged into the LAN port of the Wi-Fi extender. The camera that came with that bass station connected to base station number one and is visible in the Wyze app. The base station at the south end of the house is not visible in the Wyze app and could not be discovered during setup. As soon as I position the camera that belongs to base station number two (south end of house) outside the house, it loses the signal from base station number one.
Sounds like base station 2 isn’t connected to your network/internet. Repeaters often have different modes where they can act as wireless repeaters (WiFi to WiFi) and/or wireless bridges (WiFi to ethernet), or wireless access points (ethernet to WiFi).
Can you verify that the LAN port on the repeater is active by connecting a laptop to that port and seeing if it has internet connectivity?
That’s a great idea but I only have an iPad or a desktop computer. Hmmmm… Not sure if this information is pertinent but the WiFi part of the repeater works (but different network name to connect to) and the light on the second base station that is plugged into it did go to solid blue. Does that help?
Try connecting to your repeater’s WiFi network and run through setup for base station 2 again. If you can get base station 2 set up you should be able to pair the other WCO with it.
Won’t that put the second base station and WOC on a different version of the app then? I’m trying to keep all devices in the same list so I can see events and everything at the same time. I know I’m asking for a lot with this situation. 
The app just lists all Wyze devices that are set up on your account regardless of which WiFi network they’re connected to or their physical location. I have devices on multiple WiFi networks and a couple at my parent’s house that all show up in my Wyze app. As long as the devices are registered to your account and have a connection to the internet they should be acessible.
Ooooh! This is great news! I’ll report after trying your suggestion. Hope it works and hope this thread helps someone else!
My WyzeCam 3.0 will not connect to my TP-Link wifi extender. My router is too far from the mounting location to use one of my Wyze Outdoor cams, and the wifi cams don’t have a dependable connection (50 feet from the router). I installed the extender and have a very strong signal (albeit with somewhat reduced throughput) when connecting my iPhone. I am using the router’s SSID with the “.EXT” extension, and I’ve made sure to connect to the 2.4 GHz sigma… When I called Wyze customer service, the agent first told me that no Wyze device can connect to any WiFi extender. When I questioned that, she asked me if I’d specified the 2.4 GHz signal. When I said yes, she said that the cam should connect; at that point, I lost confidence in her and thought that, perhaps, y’all might be of more useful assistance. Thanks!
Thank you for your advice. I am so new at this and have sucky tech skills. I have the same Wi-Fi extender. I have it plugged in 5’ from my camera, but it does not indicate that my camera is using it. You mentioned how to connect camera to extender…I would be so appreciative if you could guide me through. I have an iPhone 8. Thank you so much
Its going to take more than that actually. There’s far more you need and should know. This stuff takes a lot more than is suggested here.
Really, you don’t even have to do anything at all with the cam. It only actually needed the wifi extender to be using the same wifi ssid and be within range of enough quality connection to the cam. The cam will automatically then use whatever has the best connection since its all the same ssid.
That said, any networking issues can totally be too difficult for most people. Its a whole other world. There’s potential for a ton of back and forth.
Of course, if you wanted to force it then a different ssid would be needed and set up the cam again without deleting it from the app.
Anything else is the result of dealing with networking.
*To clarify not all things that extend may allow ssid differences (or all uses anyway). And if what I said is bad brain pain then it won’t get any better. It only gets much worse from there.