Ring camera poor Wi-Fi, range extender?
Discussion
Bear with me I am not a technical person when it comes to this sort of stuff.
We’ve got three Ring cameras, front door, living room and back garden. The most recent one for the garden works just about, but the Wi-Fi signal is poor and it periodically freezes, or won’t load which is pretty frustrating. Our router is by the front door, there isn’t an option to move it.
Would a range extender to a device like a Ring camera be a different network? What I’m asking is if we were to get one and connected just the garden camera to the extender, would the garden camera then not work with our current Ring profile? As it would think it’s not on the same network as the other cameras? Bearing in mind all three cameras are on the same network and controlled from one Ring profile from the App on our phones. Or do you just connect the device to your home network via the extender which acts as a gateway? Not really sure how range extenders work.. but don’t want to waste money buying one if it isn’t going to help. Cheers.
We’ve got three Ring cameras, front door, living room and back garden. The most recent one for the garden works just about, but the Wi-Fi signal is poor and it periodically freezes, or won’t load which is pretty frustrating. Our router is by the front door, there isn’t an option to move it.
Would a range extender to a device like a Ring camera be a different network? What I’m asking is if we were to get one and connected just the garden camera to the extender, would the garden camera then not work with our current Ring profile? As it would think it’s not on the same network as the other cameras? Bearing in mind all three cameras are on the same network and controlled from one Ring profile from the App on our phones. Or do you just connect the device to your home network via the extender which acts as a gateway? Not really sure how range extenders work.. but don’t want to waste money buying one if it isn’t going to help. Cheers.
I bought a Ring doorbell a few months ago, and had the same problem. Doorbell is only about 20 feet from the BT Hub, but there are 2 block walls in the way.
Since I was already using a BT Wholehome mesh setup, I just bought an extra disc and put that in the porch. Works fine now.
The mesh setup works really well, giving good coverage around the whole house and garden. The Ring products just seem to have really weak wifi, presumably to make the batteries last longer.
My setup is one mesh disc plugged into the router, with the router's WiFi turned off. The other discs talk wireless lying to the "master" disc, extending a single WiFi network seamlessly to the whole property.
Probably overkill if your WiFi all works, apart from the Ring products.
Since I was already using a BT Wholehome mesh setup, I just bought an extra disc and put that in the porch. Works fine now.
The mesh setup works really well, giving good coverage around the whole house and garden. The Ring products just seem to have really weak wifi, presumably to make the batteries last longer.
My setup is one mesh disc plugged into the router, with the router's WiFi turned off. The other discs talk wireless lying to the "master" disc, extending a single WiFi network seamlessly to the whole property.
Probably overkill if your WiFi all works, apart from the Ring products.
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