I was networking the D-link Wiress Cameras (DCS-2100+) to record a
birth of a horse. I can get the cameras to work within the house with
the wireless router. There is about 250ft to another office where I
set up a wireless access point. From there it is about 175ft at the
most to the cameras in the stall. I was on the phone with D-link for 2
days trying to set this system up. Eventually they told me the WAP was
not going to work from that distance and the only way to check this was
if the cameras were working near the WAP (which they weren't when the
cameras were right next to it). They also told me the lights on the
WAP (WLAN and LAN), didn't mean anything. They had their head of
technical support on the phone with me. I need to get these cameras up
by May. The problem is that the barn is completely metal, wired for
electricity and phone lines (DSL is not available though). Should I
hard wire them from the router to another router/hub/switch in the
office then wire the cameras to that? Or can anyone suggest a better
wireless method? I need the cameras to be seen on the internet for
this ranch's website. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
-Shannon
It's best to hardwire if you can. Does your phone line run directly to
your home or office? Is it Cat5 (8-wire) cable? If so, you would be
able to transmit video over that. Otherwise if you can run one to your
office, that would be better and more reliable than WiFi.
What you may need to do is get a wireless bridge and connect it
to the cat5 connection on the cam. You can use a long run of wire
and mount the bridge high up on the outside of the stall where it
may be able to connect to the access point in the office. You
could also connect another wireless access point to the lan in
the office, and mout this access point outside the office high up
so the bridge and the access point have direct line of sight
connection. You can use only 4 of the 8 wires in the cat5 for the
ethernet connection, allowing 2 of the other 4 wires to be used
for power and ground going to the outside bridge and remote. The
below news group has a lot of wireless postings. There are other
wireless setups for wireless analog cams that would connect to a
computer.
alt.internet.wireless
Hi,
You can use a long run of wire and mount the bridge high up on the
outside of the stall where it may be able to connect to the access
point in the office.
The metal barn is effectively shielding it against the transmission. The
cheapest way to get this to work is to connect an external antenna to
the camera and place this antenna outside the barn towards the access
point. If the camera has no connector for an external antenna you can
open the case and solder it to the board in place of the built-in (voids
the warranty).
Markus
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