Why coax and not cat5 cameras? Sent from my iPhone
> On Dec 21, 2018, at 4:56 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am running into a lot of customers insisting on putting cheap WiFi cameras > outside their metal buildings and expecting their WiFi to work on the other > side of the Faraday cage. I think the right answer is “don’t do that”, but > they don’t listen. I don’t think any of the solutions being discussed in > this thread really addresses this problem. I do realize most ISPs don’t have > a customer base where it is normal to have a metal pole building as a > maintenance shop, barn, man cave, etc. > > I convinced one customer to call a CCTV company, which came out and installed > wired (coax) analog cameras connected to an indoor network DVR with an > Internet connection. That also eliminated the problem of each camera > constantly streaming upstream video to a cloud DVR, the customer gets alerts > and can remote into the DVR from his phone and view current or locally stored > video. And he doesn’t have to pay a monthly fee for the cloud DVR. It’s > amazing how when you “call the guy” and pay a few bucks, rather than getting > a cheap Chinese DIY solution at Costco, it ends up being done right. > > > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Coudron > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2018 5:01 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > Subject: [AFMUG] Managed whole house mesh wifi > > We have been running into more and more situations where customers either > have homes that are too large to effectively cover with a good router, or > have so many devices at the far end of the house from where their router has > to be positioned that we are looking for good options to provide better whole > house coverage. We have worked with Powerline extenders, but consider them > to be too inconsistent for wide spread use, and have worked with some > wireless extenders. The wireless extenders have a pretty big impact on > wireless speed that we aren’t excited about them as a go forward solution. > We also can’t log into the powerline or wireless extenders without some port > forwarding work in their main router. We have played around with some mesh > options, particularly the Ubiquiti Amplifi product, which we really like, but > feel like it is not an option since we cannot manage it remotely. Netgear > Orbi certainly seems like a viable option, but kind of spendy if you need 3 > nodes. Cost isn’t necessarily an issue since customers will buy this > equipment rather than us fund it, but we don’t want the solution to be so > expensive no one opts for it. I know there has been a few threads on > managed routers, but this seems like a little bit different take since we are > going to have customers buy the equipment, but would like to be able to > manage remotely. I suppose one option would be to still provide an > inexpensive managed router as we currently do and have them manage the mesh > system on their own. Any thoughts on what has worked well for whole house > mesh systems, especially in a remote management situation? > > Regards, > > David Coudron > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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