topic Pro 3 & Essential Outdoor Cameras Extending range for quite a distance to cover farm shed in Arlo Pro 3

Pro 3 & Essential Outdoor Cameras Extending range for quite a distance to cover farm shed

TtotheC — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:41:25 GMT

Hi guys I am after some advice on a way to extend the connectivity of my cameras down to our back shed. We are semi rural and our farm sheds are down the back of our property, say roughly 70 metres from main house, where the Arlo Smart Hub is. We have Starlink and have run an underground cable to a router at sheds, but this router is very low power and small.

Would an option be to get another Smart Hub and connect a camera to that router?

OR with a stronger router, the camera could run through the wifi at shed .. kind of like an extender of sorts?

Or any other solutions, greatly received 🙂

Hope that all makes sense 🙂

Cheers

Re: Pro 3 & Essential Outdoor Cameras Extending range for quite a distance to cover farm shed

StephenB — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:14:05 GMT

@TtotheC wrote:

Would an option be to get another Smart Hub and connect a camera to that router?

OR with a stronger router, the camera could run through the wifi at shed .. kind of like an extender of sorts?

The Pro 3 can only connect to a hub, so with that particular camera getting another smarthub and connecting that to the shed router is the only option.

A router with better wifi could be a good option for the Essential. A similar path is to get an outdoor wifi access point, and connect that to the shed router.

Re: Pro 3 & Essential Outdoor Cameras Extending range for quite a distance to cover farm shed

TtotheC — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:36:44 GMT

Thank you so much for the reply. I do have a mixture of cameras that I can play around with - Pro 3, Essential Outdoor, Essential Spotlight.

Question, and it may sound silly ....... but what do you mean by an 'outdoor access point'?

Re: Pro 3 & Essential Outdoor Cameras Extending range for quite a distance to cover farm shed

StephenB — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:53:20 GMT

@TtotheC wrote:

what do you mean by an 'outdoor access point'?

Something like this:

https://ui.com/wifi/outdoor

There are other manufacturers of course.

Re: Pro 3 & Essential Outdoor Cameras Extending range for quite a distance to cover farm shed

TtotheC — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:48:05 GMT

Thank you for all your help 🙂