Is it possible for an IP camera to damage a router/modem combo?

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snargfarg

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Nov 6, 2016
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Hi everyone, first post here and I hope someone can help.

We recently moved to a new house that sits on the edge of a large plot of woods. I travel for a living and thought an IP camera would be a neat toy to mount on the back of the house so I could watch deer in my back yard while on the road. After looking around I settled on the Sunba 601-20X. 20X zoom and a lot of IR distance were the selling points.

I'm not very tech savoy and it took about 3 days and a little (lot of) help from my son to get this thing up and going. My inexperience and what I believe are a few software glitches with the camera made it a real pain to get going but we eventually succeeded and I could watch deer in the back yard.

Now for the problem. The next day after getting the camera hooked up my Netgear AC1750 WiFi modem/router combo died. Now this was about a 2 years old and figured it was possible that it's time had passed and it was time for a new one so last Saturday I bought a Netgear AC1600 and set it up. I plugged in the Sunba camera and everything worked great until last night. I opened up the XMeye app on my phone and the camera was off line. I'm almost home anyway so no big deal. When I get home the router/modem is on but not doing internet. The exact same problem I had with the last unit. I did the reset, unhooked the cable, talked nicely to it, tapped on top and then cursed it before I went to bed.

Since I have hooked up this camera I've had 2 modem/router combo's die which makes me think it's the camera. Am I crazy or is this possible? I'm a rookie but my logic say's it's the camera.

Here is the setup:
Sunba 601-20XD
50ft Kat6 cable
NetGear router/modem combo.
No permanent computer hooked to the router. We set up the camera and then unhooked.
XMEye android software on phone and tablet.

I be the first to admit I don't know what I'm doing here. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated cause I'm scratching my head here and routers are expensive!

Thanks.
 
@snargfarg, welcome to the forum....its unlikely that a camera could damage the router, though sunba is bottom barrel garbage...return the camera and look at a dahua..
Does the new router work if you hard reset it?
 
What was the default IP address of the camera? Did you check the router for attached devices that might be set at the same IP address?
 
This camera is the non-PoE vesion and I did change the IP address when I did install. Sunba is bottom of the barrel garbage? After working with it I'm not surprised to hear that comment.

Now I think I've got it fixed and I confess to being a complete idiot. When I bought this house it had really weak ventilation in one of the bedrooms so I installed one of those in-line A/C duct fans. I ran an extension cord to this fan. When I installed the camera it was very close to the plug in for the fan so I put 3-way on the extension cord and plugged in the camera power supply. Now, what totally forgot is there is a speed switch on the other end of the extension cord and it's set to LOW! The camera has been operating on low voltage since it was permanently installed. Just a total brain fart on my part.

I'm feeling pretty silly right now but I think the problem is solved.
 
I'm gonna throw out a SWAG and say it didn't help. At this point I'm as confused as the FBI director. Har!
 
A small sigh of relief over here. But it's going to be a close run thing. Scarier than sh$t.
We do know how the polls can get it sooo so wrong.
 
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