GH4 Slow Wifi Monitoring Over a Network

[blazer003]

When I'm using the wifi monitoring on my iPad, I usually connect direct to the GH4 by joining the iPad to its wireless network, but I was having some fun and pulling a prank on a buddy and wanting to film it with the GH4. I was upstairs so I connected to our house wifi with both the Ipad and the GH4 (camera being downstairs and us upstairs). Everything seemed to set up just fine. Both camera and iPad had a strong signal, but my iPad was very slow to update the feed from the camera, would drop out frequently, and then sometimes tell me that the connection had been lost and I'd have to shut down the Panasonic App and reopen.

I messed around with it more, and pictures were incredibly slow to transfer even in medium quality. Like 2 minutes per picture, that is when the connection didn't time out. We have a fairly new TP-LINK TL-WR841N Wireless N300 Home Router, 300Mpbs, IP QoS, WPS Button. Anyone else having the same experience?

 

[aljudy]

How many other devices were sharing that router? I typically have Pandora music on, plus others around the house using the WiFi. PC's connected are usually downloading updates, etc.

Since you were upstairs and the camera downstairs, you also have possible wires/lights interference making the WiFi connections not top speed also. This is likely to have happened since you kept losing the connection.

Al

 

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

Since I don't have a GH-4... I can really determine exactly what the power output is, but looking at ebay, finding what appears to be the Canadian RF certification, the power of the camera's wifi seems to be either 39 mW or 7.5 mW, in any case, if you were distant from the AP you had connected the camera to, and you were using your iPad, you may be competing for spectrum as well as not well placed for good WIFI connectivity for either device.

The reason this 'works' when you are in close proximity to the camera with your iPad and accessing the camera through it's 'mini-ap' mode (could be 'ad hoc' mode as well...), is you are really going directly from camera to tablet.

When you connect to an AP for both units, you have the camera spewing up to the AP, and the AP regurgitating the spew down to your tablet, and so you are using double the bandwidth.

Then of course there's always the microwave oven in the kitchen, or the neighbor's oven... and/or AP...