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BoonieCamera

How can you lower the upload bandwidth of the 2nd gen Nest Cam to less than 200Kbps in circumstances where there is a limited bandwidth Internet connection. I previously had 2 DropCams operating at a remote location with a best case 1.2Mbps up/768Kbp...

BoonieCamera

The consensus on this issue is: No you cannot use 2nd Gen Nest Cams on ADSL connections as the minimum uplink bandwidth for one camera will saturate the capacity of an typical 1.2Mbps down/768Kbps uplink ADSL connection. With one camera the connectio...

BoonieCamera

When I did the transition, I had to first 'migrate' my Nest Account to a Google account. Then use the Google Account to go the purchase page. Then it had a record of my DropCam's and only then offered me the "free" option on the checkout page. If you...

BoonieCamera

@AndyFord, if your offline behavior is random across all your cameras you might also consider your Internet bandwidth budget may be being used up causing one or more of the cameras to lose their connection to the Google/Nest server. The camera stream...

BoonieCamera

FWIW, the BW requirements for various Nest devices can be found here (sort of):https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9245832?hl=en#zippy=%2Creduce-the-amount-of-bandwidth-your-camera-uses%2Cupload-bandwidth-used-by-cameras-and-doorbells%2Cnest...

BoonieCamera

Hi @MplsCustomer , Thanks for the concise summary. I had found that info (and posted it a few other places). The charts for the Nest Indoor camera suggests that it can operate in a low BW mode but it requires the associated app to configure it. This ...

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