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Base station required?

fburnham — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 04:36:42 GMT

Is the base station required or will a pre-exisating wireless network be sufficient to manage the cameras?

Re: Base station required?

jguerdat — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:36:35 GMT

A base station is always needed. While the cameras use WiFi to communicate, it's only to a dedicated base station. Any other wifi, such as from a router is of no use. The base station must use Ethernet to communicate to the Internet and, hence, withe the Arlo servers.

Re: Base station required?

R_Lowe — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:08:52 GMT

From my limited technical understanding, I believe it also acts as a dedicated helper for the cameras and your system, relieving your router of any extra bandwith load. And lastly, it's fairly smallish and unobtrusive (or about the size of a piece of paper only a bit thicker.