Camera Project #2 !! System Design Blue Iris NVR

I tried eero in bridge mode and it didn’t work out. Speeds suffered bad. Something about the Asus messing it up. Probably my fault. We turned it around the other way so as to not disrupt eero and it works great.

Eero support did a great job walking us through it. Basically make Eero the first device, then add a simple switch like THIS then add the Asus wifi router onto the switch to gain the OpenVPN support.

Eero has reservations and port forwarding. I used that to reserve the blue iris dell and open a port. Then used noip to set up a ddns.

Tried the TPlink 2000Mbps Ethernet over power device. Could only get speeds of 20Mbps to the outside web with it. We did better with a cheap $20 WiFi Ethernet adapter to the blue iris machine. So far video playback remotely is not suffering with 2mp cameras. At 4mp like our other setup it probably would. Home is 1990s so was expecting better speeds but tried all different combinations of power outlets around their house.

Wondering if adding a 5ghz WiFi network adapter to the dell blue iris tower would get us better speeds to the LAN and WAN? Getting 90Mbps down and 11upload to the WAN right now with a speed test.

CaliGirl said:

Tried the TPlink 2000Mbps Ethernet over power device. Could only get speeds of 20Mbps to the outside web with it. We did better with a cheap $20 WiFi Ethernet adapter to the blue iris machine. So far video playback remotely is not suffering with 2mp cameras. At 4mp like our other setup it probably would. Home is 1990s so was expecting better speeds but tried all different combinations of power outlets around their house.

Wondering if adding a 5ghz WiFi network adapter to the dell blue iris tower would get us better speeds to the LAN and WAN? Getting 90Mbps down and 11upload to the WAN right now with a speed test.

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Data over powerline is a lot like data over WiFi...there's going to be noise/interference. You may want to try out the powerline adapters in outlets in the same room and note the speed. Consider certain appliances will "inject" noise onto the powerline. Things with motors and LED lights can add noise to the powerline causing the data to be corrupted or lost which requires the device to retransmit similar to WiFi interference and collisions. Take a look at what devices you have plugged into the outlets or nearby outlets. A mobile phone charger may be adding noise, etc. Once you understand the best case scenario then try out other outlets. I'd avoid plugging into an outlet that happens to be on the same breaker as the refrigerator, etc. I can tell you that my LED tubes that replaced my florescent light tubes can cause slowdowns when they are on. Take a look at the TP-Link connection wizard to see what it thinks the fastest speed the adapters can get. And, remember not to plug the devices into a powerstrip. Plug directly into the wall then the powerstrip into the adapter if you have to.

As I indicated, my ISP is providing 120Mbps speed and my connection wizard shows 800Mbps+ speed but of course I'm limited to the ISP provide speed and that's what I get.

p.s. My house was built in 1993....not new or old wiring code.