I put a wired HomeBase 2 (system version 3.2.5 1hand two eufyCams 8.0.6 on my network and immediately I noticed smooth streaming seemed to be affected and lo and behold the performance for downloads to my laptop has dropped from 80-90Mbps to around 40Mbps, which obviously is unacceptable! The HomeBase and cameras do not appear as clients on my Wi-Fi network so obviously they interfere with the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi rather than take up available airtime on it! The cameras stream at about 70-200Kbps so I wouldn’t expect them to make a noticeable impact on the network, and mine is the only 2.4GHz WLAN visible. Any idea, there doesn’t seem to be any way of changing the WLAN settings?
Woaw no wonder network performance suffers, the wi-fi between the Homebase and the eufyCams seems to have been implemented poorly…
With a wi-fi analyzer I see my home wi-fi on channel 5. The eufyCam traffic happens over a new network with a hidden SSID on channel 6. Channels 1, 6 and 11 are the non-overlapping channels, and choosing channel 6 when my wi-fi is on channel 5 is bad news for my wi-fi, particularly since our laptops wi-fi gets killed by the eufyCam network with the strongest signal on an interfering channel.
Eufy could have had two options:
- Put the cameras on the same network as my wi-fi but then all the traffic would have gone through my wi-fi router. I can’t see why that would be a bad thing, I could throttle back the eufycam on the network in that case.
- Put the cameras on a separate network on the same channel as my wi-fi - interference would of course happen but would probably be better handled by the AP.
I admit that there are a few questions for Huawei as well, like how come they chose channel 5 for my wi-fi but that’s a separate discussion…
Since you can’t change the channel that your HomeBase and cameras use (which would have been a nice feature/option). You should be able to access your routers home’s Wi-Fi settings to change the channel of that.
Some routers have the option of a setting for auto scan that occurs once or twice a month that chooses the best channel of less congestion.
Hi, did you figure out this issue? Same issue with my E330 cameras. Since installing my 2.4GHz has been getting random spikes of jitter and latency resulting in delayed packets. This causes laggy video on the camera and my other 2.4GHz devices are suffering.
I never got it fixed and dropped the idea of getting more Eufy cameras, I’ve gone for Arlo instead which seem more wifi-friendly.