I am not familiar with using a wireless webcam with USB, but last summer we did some testing at the local fair with a free standing webcam from a base operation. This type of camera uses an IP number on your local network. A modest vertical gain antenna was set up at about 15 feet high outside our emergency vehicle. Using a laptop, with just the built in antenna, we would move around the fairgrounds to see what kind of signal and throughput we could get.
Being outside, we could get many hundreds of feet of signal distance, however as the signal got weaker, it would drop packets and you would not get full motion images. Even with a perfect signal it did not appear to be 30 fps, and it was around 240 lines of video so about half of standard definition TV. When it dropped packets, it would keep trying to get the frame and ignore other frames until it finishes the one it started. This means you will have jerky display, but the amount of data througput is significant compared to what we do with digital text. The 2.4 GHz signal is line of sight as you could expect total loss of signal if you blocked it with an obstruction such as a building. 73, Rick, KV9U Andrew O'Brien wrote: > A bit off the digital path but.. I was wondering if anyone here has a > wireless PC monitor in their shack/house? Just wondering about the > range and quality of video display via USB. > > Andy K3UK
