topic Re: WiFi Range? in Arlo Pro

WiFi Range?

Groundhog2 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 21:33:50 GMT

Hello,

we are considring purchasing Arlo Pro AMV4000C kit but concerned as only location of base station available would bean WiFi would need to penetrate 4 brick walls to comunicate with camera located on exterior of building (though distance between base & camera would only be approx 35 feet). I have read camera can only comunicate direct to base sation, so what options may be availabe to rectifie poor reception in this case? Also, how can I test if this location would work OK prior to purchasing kit? Our inhouse WiFi router transmits to the proposed camera position, but I am concerned this router (Australian Telstra model TG800vac) has stronger siginal than Arlo base station may have, & so may not be good comparision.

Apologies if this question has already been answered elswhere in forum, I looked but could not find a similar situation to this.

kind regards

andrew

Re: WiFi Range?

steve_t — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 21:56:21 GMT

My Arlo base station has a stronger signal than my routers. It runs on 2.4GHz to give it longer range. BUT I guess you'll never know til you get it

Re: WiFi Range?

Addyhash — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 04:32:29 GMT

Groundhog2 wrote:
Hello,
we are considring purchasing Arlo Pro AMV4000C kit but concerned as only location of base station available would bean WiFi would need to penetrate 4 brick walls to comunicate with camera located on exterior of building (though distance between base & camera would only be approx 35 feet). I have read camera can only comunicate direct to base sation, so what options may be availabe to rectifie poor reception in this case? Also, how can I test if this location would work OK prior to purchasing kit? Our inhouse WiFi router transmits to the proposed camera position, but I am concerned this router (Australian Telstra model TG800vac) has stronger siginal than Arlo base station may have, & so may not be good comparision.
Apologies if this question has already been answered elswhere in forum, I looked but could not find a similar situation to this.

kind regards
andrew

Steve is spot on, i have a camera about 15-20 meters from the base station outside on my eaves, ( it goes through 2 brick walls and gets about 50% signal ) i had to climb up the other day to reposition, and i lost wifi between my phone and router while trying to view it on the app, ( which is right next to my arlo base station ) meaning the base station has at least twice the signal strenght of my helsta home gateway lol...

I ended up moving the base station closer using an ethernet over a/c system. ( Netcomm NP505 ) and it works fine.