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Thanks for the tips everyone. I'm gonna work on getting the 5Ghz up and running to spread the traffic around another channel. The wifi analyzer was an interesting test, looks like my router is correctly choosing a lesser-used channel.

Unfortunately my router only allows 1 channel for 2.4Ghz and 1 channel for 5Ghz. I'm working on getting my 5Ghz connection up so I can spread the traffic across two channels, unfortunately right now my router is having difficulty there. And this Dahua doesn't have any ability to choose wifi...

I'm more than willing to edit and re-write if you'd care to point out my mistakes!

I had previously tried zmodo wifi cameras and had great results for connectivity. Unfortunately, contrary to their marketing they do not offer "continuous recording," they just record motion and a snapshot every 10 seconds of non-motion. So here I am with Dahua!

Thanks for the tip. I have 11 channels on my router...I'll manually add them on specific channels and see the results.

I wrote up a quick blog on setting up the cameras for the first time, hope this helps someone! IT engineering and a little bit of hacking: Dahua IP Cam Setup

Just fired up my Blue Iris/Dahua setup on the recommendations of folks on this site! So far so good, but one pretty important kink: my four cameras all say "No signal," one at a time, and then reconnect. Here's my setup: 4 DH-IPC-HFW13A0SN-W Refurbished Dell desktop at 15% CPU utilization...