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What could explain why my IP camera is flaky on one static IP compared to another?

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tracerit

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I recently noticed one of my IP cameras was disconnecting frequently on my home network. I have its IP set at 192.168.1.201. It worked perfectly fine for months and i've made zero changes to the settings. Thinking it was the camera crapping out due to the recent heat wave, I replaced it with another IP camera and it too began disconnecting frequently. I then changed the static IP to 192.168.1.204 and no disconnects at all so far. The only change was the IP. No port, connection or image settings, etc were changed.

What could explain this?
 
It's possible you've got another device using that IP address, thus an IP address conflict. If you ping 201 now, will you get a response?
 
AnonymouseUser said:
It's possible you've got another device using that IP address, thus an IP address conflict. If you ping 201 now, will you get a response?
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never thought of that as I've had no new changes or hardware. Pinging it returns a <1ms ping and I can't imagine anything hardwired that has that IP. Looking up the vendor of the MAC, it belongs to the original IP camera that I thought was faulty (this camera is unconnected now).

Plugged and played around with some equipment and it seems the new IP camera is holding onto both 201 and 204 IPs. It's only connected via wifi as well. I'll just surrender boht IPs to it for now haha.

NM, went into settings and it seems to have held the 204 for LAN and 201 for Wifi, which is odd as I was able to connect to it through 204 through wifi. Oh well, it's both on 204 for now. Thanks for the push in the right direction!
 
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tracerit said:
Oh well, it's both on 204 for now.
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Why do I get the feeling you are back where you started? I would recommend setting the camera to DHCP and giving the wireless MAC a static lease via the router. This way if the camera does require two IPs then the router will give identical or unique IPs as required.
 
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