Possible jamming

[Chuck]

Criminals do use jammers to block wireless security cameras. This is why I got wired cameras (PoE). More hassle to set up but not very hackable by a common criminal.

See if there were any crimes in the area the during the outages.

That being said, WiFi does drop off now and then. A router going bad, some atmospheric abnormality (CME), marginal signals that will drop off now and then, lots of things that can cause outages. As the Earth spins it will point in different directions during the day and if it points towards an anomaly…. Or if the weather is bad including lightning which can cause outages. There are reasons for radio waves to be disrupted.

Consider Occam’s razor in making your decisions.

Chuck

On Sep 2, 2014, at 5:52 AM, Thomas Henry <tjhjr at mac.com> wrote:

> Thought I’d throw this out here, maybe someone has experienced this before.
> 
> I think someone might be jamming my WiFi signals, as none of my security cameras had any recordings on them last night. This included one not yet in XTension (my Raspberry Pi, which I’m still messing with to get into XTension ;)).Never turned off WiFi, nor is any kind of Timed Access set up. Without getting all paranoid about it, is there a way in XTension or XTdb to continually monitor my ongoing WiFi signal to see if there is a significant (and consistent) drop in signal? Having a daily graphic report would be cool, or send me a text alert (when it happens) of some sort would be nice too.
> 
> Ultimately, I’m going to hardwire my Airsights with PoE, and nonie of them use the 802.11n spec (darn), but for now, being able to start monitoring some sort of pattern would be helpful.
> 
> Tom
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