Broadcast Arlo Basestation signal using exisiting wifi from home router

CoolDragonex — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:48:41 GMT

Hi everyone! Just bought a 3 pack Arlo Pro 2 like 2 hours ago and has been testing out since.

I stay in a landed property and have set up my base station to be at the 1st storey (where my home wifi router is), and i plan to set up one camera at the 2nd storey however when i move the camera up, the camera signal became very low and i have difficulty connecting to it...

Based on this article (https://kb.arlo.com/5568/How-can-I-increase-the-range-of-my-Arlo-Smart-Home-Security-system), it was told that powerline and wifi extender can extend the connection, but at the 2nd storey i have a wifi repeater connected directly via LAN to the main wifi router, shouldnt it have the same concept as powerline and wifi extender that will allow the cameras to connect to my home wifi existing network (which can fully cover my house) and redirecting it to my main wifi router over to netgear servers even though they are out of the basestation range?

Please help, as i would like to make use of my current home infrastructure to broadcast the signal from my basestation across my house

Thanks in advance!

Re: Broadcast Arlo Basestation signal using exisiting wifi from home router

brh — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:58:23 GMT

@CoolDragonex

Since the Arlo Base station must physically connect to either a router or a wifi range extender with an ethernet cable, the article is half right for your use. What the article is saying is that you can centrally locate your router by moving it to another location by connecting the base to the ethernet port on your range extender.

But, in cases where your whole house is too large for the range of the camera/base communications, you might have to purchase another Arlo base station and plug one on the first floor and connect the closest cameras to it and use the second base station and range extender on the second floor and connect the other cameras to it. That is what I did.

First experiment with locating the base you purchased and if you cannot get all the cameras to work, you know you have another solution.

The app doesn't care how many base stations you have.

Brian

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