Question wifi ip camera and dvr question

[corvairbob]

ok i have 20 ip cameras around my home. 8 foscam wifi wired cameras that i had wired because when i first connected them to wifi i had so much dropped feed that i just ran wire to them.

i also have a 16 channel hybrid dvr/nvr that i had 8 hard wired ip cameras connect to and the fosams that were plugged into my network unit and that unit connected to this dvr let me see all 16 cameras. i also had a 8 channel dvr that had 4 more hard wired cameras connected to it.

now on 10-31-24 the house burned down and when i get a new home rebuilt i would like to see if the wifi ip cameras that have there own wifi dvr are any good and will not drop thee feed being what i think is they are on there won wifi channels and not using my comcast modem/router.

so does anyone happen to know if those if i get a wifi ip camera system if it will keep the feed and not keep dropping the feed? i hate to pay lots of money just to test them being i already know that what i did finally set up did work perfectly. but when the new house gets built i may not be able to run hard network and camera cable around the house very easy. i did have a lower level for doing that but the new house may be on a crawl space and that will be a bit harder to do. plus the time to do it. thanks

 

[USAFRet]

i would like to see if the wifi ip cameras that have there own wifi dvr are any good

Some are good, some are absolute junk.

I have some Reolink cameras, some WiFi, most wired, and the REolink Home Hub Pro.
Does not 'drop' the WiFi connection.

 

[corvairbob]

i'm thinking of the outdoor bullet type that are wifi. and come with there own wifi dvr unit.

 

[USAFRet]

i'm thinking of the outdoor bullet type that are wifi. and come with there own wifi dvr unit.

I've had some of those.
Some semi good. Others, absolute crap.

Just last week, I took this 4 cam setup offline.
It stopped seeing the cameras, for reasons unknown.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0153AUBUU

 

[corvairbob]

ok thanks did you try a reboot? and or a reset of the cameras. my neighbor had some like that and they lost dvr connection so i took them and did a hard reset and got them reconnected. but i did not have them long enough to see if they hed there feed. and i did not have them far apart and feeding thru walls etc to get a good idea if they held the video feed. thanks

 

[mcphilly]

As for the Wi-Fi cameras, newer systems have improved a lot in terms of stability, but it really depends on the quality of the cameras and your Wi-Fi setup. If they have their own dedicated network, they should be more reliable.

 

[corvairbob]

thanks