I have a wifi surveillance system. A few of my cameras have a weak signal. I cant move the base unit inside the house, so I was wondering if anyone has any experience with a outdoor wifi antenna’s and how good do they actually work before I waste money on something that may not work for me.
I’m using the Netgear EX6100. What I like about it is that it has an ethernet port in it and I can hardwire my lightning detector directly to while using it for my wireless camera. Has not been a problem and has worked well.
Why does it need to be outdoors? In most cases you can put the extender inside on the wall closest to your cameras and that should make for a lot stronger signal for the cameras to pick up.
So a wifi extender will not work with my cameras. I talked to customer service. They recommended extending the antennas from the main unit to outside and higher.
Back to the drawing board and looking for antennas.
I should have been more clear. They are wireless. You can get an outdoor antenna for it from the dvr. I forgot to get the frequency they run on. Ill get that and post it here.
So all there telling me is, the system runs on 2.4g
The dvr has its own built in wifi for the cameras so it wont use your home bandwidth. And there saying the wifi signal in encrypted so it doesn’t interfere with other wifi units. They say I could replace the 5db antennas with 9db, but I don’t think that’ll do much in my case.
I don’t think adding 4db really increases the strength or distance that much.
They can be directional, but not if you are using the vertical stick omni-directional antennas typically used for wifi. Also the signals at that frequency bounce around pretty well, so you may be getting a good signal but it’s not travelling in a straight line from A to B.