I have a gl.inet shadow router. When I connect a wireless ip camera to the guest network, and look at the live stream, the internet freezes and the ping from any other computer on the main non-guest network to external internet shoots up to 30 seconds. Ping to the router remains normal. When I move the same camera to the main network and have nothing on the guest network, everything is fine, no freezing or slow internet. Is there something about the guest network, that makes the internet for all devices on that router extremely slow when viewing camera feeds? How to fix this?
Are there other devices connected to the guest Wi-Fi?
It should use the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi between the Shadow and Camera, probably 2.4GHz Wi-Fi frequency is busy and complex.
Let me know what the firmware version is? does the Shadow repeater to or wire connect to the primary router?
Could it be that when you connect it using the guest-network the stream is be going up and down your internet connection and saturate your internet connection's upload?
Can you see if the same thing happens if you access that camera when connected to the main wifi from another internet connection (or 4G)? If so, then your internet connection's upload speed is just to slow for that stream and when going from guest-wifi to normal wifi it passes uses the internet, because the camera is not in the same network to access it locally.
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I got it, the video streaming from the camera to phone is through the Internet.
No.
This can't be the problem, because when I connect 2.4ghz main wifi, not guest, there is no slow problem.
The latest firmware , in September 2024. The Shadow is set to router mode, and has wire connection from WAN to the internet modem.
How is this different to the main non-guest network though? Still the same streaming going up and down? Why has guest network have the problem, and not the main network?
My device that controls the camera was connected to the same wifi network as the camera. For example, when the camera was connected to guest network, my phone which controls the camera was connected to the same guest network. This was the slowness I complained of. And when camera was on main network, my phone was on main network. No slowness here.
Is it possible that on the guest network, the devices cannot see each other to access locally, while on the main network, the devices can see each other?
The guest wifi has "client isolation" and the main wifi does not. That means on the guest wifi devices cannot see other devices on that same network. On the main network different devices can see each other.
If your camera's software is any bit smart, when it is connected to your main network it will be able to directly communicate with the camera using the LAN. It will not be using the internet in that case. The stream would go simply "Camera" > "Shadow router" > "Phone"
On the guest network it would love to do the same, but because of client isolation the devices do not see each other on that local network, so everything will be done using internet. The stream would go the long route of "Camera" > "Shadow router" > (ISP upload) > "Camera company relay server" > (ISP download) > "Shadow router" > "Phone".
The issue I suspect in the long route is that the ISP upload cannot handle that amount of data. Therefore everything internet slows down, because everything needs go over the overloaded bit of ISP upload.
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