New router help... can't see any of my cameras
I've been puzzling over this for several hours. I got a new router and gave the wireless network same SSID and PW as the old one. My phone and laptop connected fine. Isn't the SSID and the password just stored in each camera? Absolutely no connections, router can't see them. And of course Security Spy can't see them either. Something really obvious I'm missing here?
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All existing devices should be able to connect to the new WiFi network if you have kept the same SSID and password. However one thing that could go wrong is if the cameras have fixed IP addresses on the old network, and the new network uses a different addressing system (e.g. a different subnet, where the subnet is defined as the first three numbers of the IP address).
Did you assign the cameras fixed IP addresses, or are they set to obtain IP addresses automatically from the router using DHCP?
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Ooh, I wish I had seen this before your beddy-bye time.
All cameras have a fixed IP, however, the old router had a fixed IP of 192.168.1.1 while the new one has an IP of 192.168.50.1.
So next step would be switch back to the new router and change its IP to match the old one? Or am I not getting the "subnet" concept?
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Wait no should be early evening o'er by you :-)
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And, uh, I guess that's not the first 3 numbers, is it...
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K, so the subnet was the same on the new camera as the old (255.255.255.0) but I did change the main IP of the new router to match the old one, I was warned that IPs would be reassigned.... let it update and boom all good now. Signal most certainly improved over old router. One more question though if I may... the old router was single band and the new one is dual. How should I use the 5Ghz? Should it have the same SSID and password as the 2.4 GHZ?
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Depends ... it is easier to have both 2.4GHz and 5GHz with the same SSID and password. However some "older" device cannot handle 5GHz (very well or not the highest speed) and in some cases the 'older' devices slow down the throughput for all devices. Also the 2.4GHz signal will be better on a distance, while the 5GHz will give you a faster connection (even with weaker signal).
That is why I have separate SSID for 2.4GHz and 5GHz and the newer devices only connected to the 5GHz WiFi..
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Thanks! Almost seems like I have little use for the 5Ghz band then.
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Great to hear you got this working - yes, changing the IP addressing scheme to match the previous one was the right thing to do. And @pcgaasbeek is correct that 2.4 GHz will give you more range while 5 GHz will give you more speed, so it may be worth using different SSIDs for each so that you can assign closer devices to the 5 GHz network while assigning devices that are further away to the 2.4 GHz network.
