looney2ns
IPCT Contributor
You should always set a STATIC Ip in each camera, and the IP should be in a range that is outside the DHCP range of the router.Ha...embarrassed to say this after buying the budget cam.
I figured out the issue when I was in my basement watching a movie. The new AV Receiver I purchased seemed to be acting up and I was unable to download an update to it. So I check the network settings, for some reason my router leased the same IP address that the Hikvision was on to my AVR, so there were conflicting IPs which was causing the network abnormalities. It must have literally been the one camera I forgot to reserve the address for in my router (all 7 other cameras had reserved IPs). Odd that the AVR would somehow get the same IP address especially since it would have been in use when the AVR was connected?
Live and learn! Guess I will remount the Hikvision and figure out where I can use the budget camera.
So after all that, nothing to do with corrosion, just user error in the network setup!
Doh!
It would avoid headaches like this.
Actually, I'm a believer of setting static IP's in most everything to avoid headaches.