Can the wireless connection to the camera only be set up using a wired connection? My home wifi (verizon jetpack) does not use a wired connection.
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hmmm, you may not need to. If you connect it to your laptop via the Ethernet port you may be able to setup the wireless connection on it. I don't think you necessarily have to be plugged into a router. The camera will be setup with a default IP Address right out of the box. The idea is for you to access the camera's settings from your laptop directly connected to it via Ethernet. From there you can go to Network/Wireless and have it pick up your wireless connection. Hope this helps.
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Yes, there is an antenna on the camera which you can set up to link with your wireless router at home over wi-fi. You can also use a wired connection. You have to get all the information about your home network including IP address, network SSID, and password. It is a good start to look at the instructions that come with the camera, using their software, just walk through the prompts and input the information as needed.
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Never had that problem. Make sure your first set your mobile device to airplane mode (i.e. no other conflicting connections possible), then set the network connection to the camera. That is the only way I know everything works properly.
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I do not recommend using any of these wireless cameras but instead find far better performance by connecting to my router via Ethernet cable. WiFi just can't keep up. Most of the other folks having issues probably would do better by running an Ethernet cable to the camera.
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I don't think it can be used wireless without cable connections. You can setup it with your wireless router to monitor it through your smartphone or laptop but connection between this system and cameras is just physical. There are some other wireless systems available from Swann I think which be costly.
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Does your Verizon mifi hot spot has LAN port ? For initial setup, you need to connect the camera directly to your router or switch with a network cable. You cannot connect wirelessly to the camera without first setting it up via a network cable. If no available wired network jack to plug the camera into for the initial configuration, it is still possible to configure the camera without an initial wired connection, but the procedure is a little complicated . We will provide the instruction step by step.
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These cameras are wired. It's a pain, but the wireless ones were interfering with my wifi.
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Before the setup, you must have two things. 1. A working wireless network you you must know the SSID and Password. 2. A CAT 5 or 6 cable to attach the camera to your network. The camera is set up on a wired network, and then is used on the wireless network. It CANNOT be setup in the wireless net. The minimal instructions should give you the IP address of the camera, which you put in as a URL to then setup.
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Unplugged what? Power or Ethernet? First unplug everything. Then plug in power only. Wait for camera to motion test (move side to side - up and down. Then plug in Ethernet cable and connect in the menu. If no connection remove camera from camera menu and search again with camera pass word ID. Keep trying to connect by unplugging power to camera and reconnecting Ethernet cable. Once it works you can go wireless if you set it up in the menu. Its a nice camera. Pete.
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The connection on the camera is BNS not Ethernet. you might be able to buy (BNS to Ethernet) adapter but not sure if that will work. you can ask the seller to be in the safe side.
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Nope not wireless. If you want a wirless camera try searching for a "wireless" or "IP" cameras, and they are usually viewed using software provided by the manufacturer or a 3rd party software provider and by typing in the camera's IP address. Hope this helped!
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Nope. It hooks up to your wireless router. I have this camera and manage it wirelessly from my laptop.
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You can use the Foscam Android App to set it up. You need to set up the router a little bit before the whole thing can work.
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If you're talking about 5 GHz on your wi-fi network, most definitely not. The "wireless" part of the camera system sends the signal from the camera to the (included) receiver inside your house, or wherever. The signal is analog, and requires an analog-to-digital converter before reaching your computer, and then, and only then, can it be distributed via wi-fi.
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Thx for asking! I've problem to get it connected to my wifi. My computers can detect it only when the camera is connected to the router with the cable. But when I remove the cable, my camera cannot be detected! I bought it on Sept 2014... Not sure if I can return it. &#128546;
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it's wireless and wired .For initial setup, you need to connect the camera directly to your router or switch with a network cable. You cannot connect wirelessly to the camera without first setting it up via a network cable. After successful wireless configuration, then unplug the Ethernet cable and camera will automatically switch to wireless mode
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I can tell you that it's intended to be wired and works great for me as such. I don't know about connecting this to WIFI, but the camera's output wire is simply an RCA male connector. If you have a separate WIFI transmitter with RCA input, perhaps that would work.
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no i can not i have tried to connect with wifi and can not but i love the camera, maybe i just dont understand how