re: Best home camera system (wired)

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Can either of these NVR's connect to WiFi to access video remotely, or do they have to be connected with an ethernet cable to your router?

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The reolink cannot directly. You need a "wired" connection. While we have Cat5 in every room of the house, we did not have it in the hall way where I wanted to view the stream. However, what I was able to do I was take an old wireless router and connect it to my main router as a bridge set up. This works fine. My only cost there was the time it took to set up the bridge as I already had the old router. If you didn't want to go through the trouble of setting up a bridge, I think any wireless extender with ethernet port would work for the same purpose.

I have a sneaking suspicion that is why the e-mail notifications do not work (the push notifications do work) is because the NVR is on a bridge. But I really have no idea. I chatted with their support staff for a while, but I ended it when they wanted to log into the NVR remotely. I didn't think that feature was worth that trade off.