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bought a ring floodlight. it sucked until i got the free 'chime pro' wifi extender and now it functions, but its not great. i liked the idea of replacing the flood between my garage doors with a combo unit so i whored myself out & bought this

You have crappy wifi. Dont hate Ring because of that.

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Posted by CAD703X

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Posted on 3/26/18 at 2:26 pm to mctiger1985

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You have crappy wifi. Dont hate Ring because of that.

oddly the 'ring pro' doodad gets fantastic signal about 5ft away from where the floodlight is.

floodlight has a shitty wifi antenna inside it.

eta the problem is that the floodlight mount is between TWO METAL GARAGE DOORS on the outside of the brick and almost touches an aluminum gutter that goes from above it down to the ground. if the gutter was on the other side it would probably help quite a bit.

there's almost nothing at all i can do to get a good signal to it.

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Posted by CAD703X

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Posted on 3/26/18 at 2:43 pm to mctiger1985

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You have crappy wifi.

here this better sums up the issue.

a. the garage is essentially a 'cellar' since the living area of the house is above it meaning the router signal is geared for the living space.

b. interference from the 2 garage doors & metal flashing

c. that damn gutter practically touches the floodlight. cant really move the router to the other side of it

d. red dot is essentially where the router lives in the middle of the house. i get great coverage for the most part throughout the house.

e. zwave mailbox controller *ROCK FREAKING SOLID* and 130ft away from nearest zwave hop