Help w/ Foscam ip camera on extended network

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Help w/ Foscam ip camera on extended network

Hello!!

Thank you in advance for any and all insight!

I am attempting to connect a Foscam FI9821P Camera wirelessly and having difficulties.

- Internet is received into the home via a Motorola Surfboard modem/router.

- An Airport Extreme is then used to provide internet to the room in the garage

- An Airport Express is then used to provide internet to the back house

- All my devices, Mac/Windows laptops/iPhones connect to the Express just fine

- Connect the Foscam vie ethernet to Express and it works. Then when following instructions to connect wirelessly and disconnect ethernet from camera/express it no longer works

Foscam support told me it is a router configuration issue and couldn't help. Is it possible to connect wirelessly to this, I guess, 3rd router downstream? I am not concerned about accessing the camera via the internet elsewhere, just on my wifi at home.

My wife is stressing out because she wants to use it as a baby monitor, which in turns stresses me out lol. Please let me know if there is any detailed information that I have left out which would be helpful in resolving this issue.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), Foscam FI9821P

Posted on Jan 16, 2016 11:32 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 16, 2016 11:54 PM in response to wilsonb138

Do your wireless names have more than 20 characters with spaces and apostrophe like this.

wilsonb138's airport extreme wireless (it is highly unlikely to work properly).

Do you have a password with strange non-alphanumeric characters..

None of those things are helping you.

Is the Express extending wireless from the extreme.. then..

Reset the Airport extreme to factory and start over.

All names.. short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.. <10 characters please.

Passwords can be longer.. 8-20 but still pure alphanumeric mixed case and numbers.

Once you finish the setup of the main AE you can do the Express .. if it is extend wireless..

if it is ethernet then this is roaming network and the above can be done just to the Express.

No luck you might want to test with even tighter controls and no password.

So let me give you explicit details.

Wireless name.. AE24ghz (use AE5ghz for the 5ghz band).

No password

Set wireless channel for 2.4ghz to 11, 8, 6, in that order.

If the camera cannot connect to any of those channels.. then it is 100% incompatible.. it happens.

If it connects immediately add a password.. simple.. as stated, 8-20 characters mixed case and numbers.

If the camera then fails, change it from WPA2 to WPA1 & 2 which is more compatible with a greater range of equipment.

Still no luck.

The solution is extremely simple.. Add a standard wireless AP to your network.. $30-40 TP-Link etc.. plugged into ethernet somewhere.. whichever is more convenient, the Extreme or Express. You now have a standard wireless AP for the camera to join.. it is often far easier to simply accept Apple for Apple and bananas for everything and everybody else.

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wilsonb138 Author

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Jan 17, 2016 12:13 AM in response to LaPastenague

Names and passwords are all alphanumeric and are 10-13 in length. I'll need to wait till tomorrow before I go and start changing them around and such. I haven't tried cycling through the channels etc. I will try that tomorrow also. Though I haven't needed to in the past, however. Normally the camera is set up to the main router and not to a 3rd one down in an extended network.

Thank you and I'll post how things go tomorrow after I go through and give your suggestions a try.

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