topic Re: Half a meg Upload speed in Arlo

Half a meg Upload speed

MagicalArmchair — Mon, 08 May 2017 10:40:06 GMT

Hello there,

I have between 400k and 800k of upload speed at any one time. I understand my streaming will be poor from the camera, however, will the motion detected uploads be at full HD quality or will these be poor too? Viz, will it cache the motion captured video, then upload it at full res, just taking a longer time to upload it? Or will that motion captured content be low quality too?

Thanks.

Mark

Re: Half a meg Upload speed

jguerdat — Mon, 08 May 2017 12:10:27 GMT

The upload streams at the same time as it's recorded so tranfer rate will be a major issue. The only way to get 720p quality is with better throughput since your connection will cause the quality to drop automatically, even if set for Best quality. You may be able to use Optimized for at least some videos (as long as it's only one at a time) which is 640p.

Re: Half a meg Upload speed

MagicalArmchair — Mon, 08 May 2017 12:31:17 GMT

Drat, so probably worth cancelling the order and going for something that records down to a memory card or HD then I suppose? Ho hum. It looks like a cracking solution too - just not without enough internet 😞

Re: Half a meg Upload speed

MagicalArmchair — Mon, 08 May 2017 14:37:43 GMT

Okay, so it can record it locally to USB too... however I guess thats at the same codec level / quality its streaming?

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Arlo-Knowledge-Base/How-do-I-set-up-local-storage-backups-on-a-USB-device-using-my/ta-p/1146857

So if that quality is 140p because the Internet is so poor, then thats what will go to the memory stick too!?

Current speedtest gets me 0.68 meg... hummm... I feel the need to test this out...

Edit: So expanding on that, you could set up the device, remove Internet from it, and then it will only be able to record locally? Problem of slow upload solved...?

Re: Half a meg Upload speed

TomMac — Mon, 08 May 2017 15:32:19 GMT

MagicalArmchair wrote:

Edit: So expanding on that, you could set up the device, remove Internet from it, and then it will only be able to record locally? Problem of slow upload solved...?

The only issue with that idea is that you would have no control of the modes ( arming /disarm , etc ) as the command go thru the server to the base unit

If leaving it ALWAYS armed, then it may work

Also , the drive must be ejected and used in another device to view the mp4 files

Re: Half a meg Upload speed

MagicalArmchair — Mon, 08 May 2017 16:01:09 GMT

I wonder if it starts recording with no internet to figure out throughput what resolution it will attempt to record in locally? Full 1080?

Re: Half a meg Upload speed

TomMac — Mon, 08 May 2017 17:21:28 GMT

It must be set up first before the internet fails...

And you'll never get 1080 out of a 720 camera 🙂