I see that most of these units require 2 Mbit/sec upload speed. I am only able to get .75. Has anyone been able to view their camera remotely with slow dsl upload?
My rural grandfathered internet is supposed to be 1 Mbit but I RARELY get that, usually it's about 0.6 Mbit.
Wyze has a feature that let's you group cams and view up to 4 cams live on 1 screen.
I've found I can reliably have 3, sometimes 4 in a group and view the group. More than 4 in one group on the rural net at a time and one will "hang". So I run them in several groups, 4 for the front, 4 for the back, others for testing, watching the sump pump etc.
My system in Virginia is on a relatively high speed net (I sometimes get 20Mbit/sec UP), I usually run all 7 cams in a group with no problem except the native app puts it on 2 screens.
Any camera that REQUIRES the internet to operate gets zero stars in my books. If your idea of security is leaving your keys in the door, the door wide open and your wallet on the doorstep then go for it.
I just picked up a cheap IP camera from amazon. As soon as you turn it on it tries to make at least half a dozen back door two way connections to multiple servers in mainland China that bypass your firewall. Block internet access and you cant use your camera on your local area network. I sent it back to Mao.
There are plenty of expensive security cams that will fill your needs and don't require internet. Jut remember if you have a modern cell phone all that data is trackable and collectable by NSA whenever it's turned on.
Thanks to the recommendations on here, we looked at the Wyze Cam on youtube and decided to give it a try. For $25, it seems like a worthwhile gamble to see if it works like everyone says it does. It's scheduled to be delivered Wednesday, and I'm sure my wife will have it working ten minutes after she gets home and opens the box!!!!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076H3SRXG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Well - -since you bought it -here's a few random pointers
Get a good 32MB SD card, I use Samsung
Time lapse - kind of weird - It's limited to about a month. So for example I like time lapse. I can run a time lapse with SD quality scenes taken once every 3 seconds for 12 hours and it creates about a 1GB file, no problem. That's about 15,000 scenes. But I can't run 15,000 scenes taking 1 frame an hour to document seasonal change. There also seems to be about a 2GB limit on file size.
They come out with frequent updates and new features, that may require loading new firmware or a new app. DON'T automatically load the new stuff. I'm a Beta tester for both hardware and software. I've spent countless hours reloading working versions. Often they break some minor (to them) feature in an upgrade. They seem to be a relatively small firm and rely heavily on us beta testers. But they treat us like
clowder of cats.
If you want to run a camera "outside" they are pretty hardy. I've posted here about using them as backup cams and FEL cams and I can run them off my phone as a hotspot..
I finally found the specs for the Wyze Cam on their site, indicating that it requires a minimum 1.0 Mbps upload. They sure make it hard to find that spec. I guess I'm a little too far out in the sticks and don't have internet that fast so I'll have to pass unless somebody else has been able to use it with ADSL. I'm afraid it would hog all of my upload and screw up my network. Maybe in about a hundred years faster internet will be available for me.
Like I wrote, you can probably run several, just keep an eye on them. One time they did an upgrade to the Beta and all of a sudden it defaulted to my cell phone data plan and I used something like 200Mb in a few hours. We caught it in Beta and they fixed it.
Buy one from Home Depot, try it out, return if it doesn't work for you.