Author Topic: Foscam FI8909W connection issues  (Read 2873 times)

KenRN

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Foscam FI8909W connection issues
« on: August 26, 2012, 06:32:10 PM »
At least once a day .. my Foscam camera loses network .. and is offline. 

I am using a iMac / Time Capsule / iPhone

does anybody know what is wrong?  ???

OUAnthony

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Re: Foscam FI8909W connection issues
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2012, 07:38:45 AM »
Is the camera rebooting or simply falling off of the network? Are you using wireless or wired connection? How is the signal? If wireless, have you tried wired to see if you have the same problem? Most cheaper IP cameras don't perform that great using wireless. You can try reducing the framerate of your camera to 5fps to see if that helps...or wired connection. Otherwise it's probably a hardware issue if it's rebooting. If that's the case, get them to send you a new one.

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Re: Foscam FI8909W connection issues
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2012, 01:59:30 PM »
it keeps on changing ip's on me ..

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Re: Foscam FI8909W connection issues
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2012, 02:04:17 PM »
Sounds like it's losing the connection...so I'll assume you're use wifi and not a wired connection. Go into the camera settings and assign it a static IP address. That should at least allow icamsource to reconnect to the camera once the camera regains access to the wifi network.