I don't understand LAN and wireless speeds

JulyKnot

Quiet_Spark wrote: »

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&tbo=d&site=&source=hp&q=wireless+ip+camera&oq=wireless+ip+&gs_l=hp.1.0.0l10.1030.4326.0.6662.12.9.0.3.3.0.126.757.8j1.9.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.6EZh-kiNSWM

Yes thanks. I did originally wonder about those but was worried about wireless not working too well ( wireless doorbells seem to fail dismally here) and didn't want to spend money if I could help it.

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what software are you using

esuhl

JulyKnot wrote: »

Now I'm not understanding the terminology. What does map a drive to the location mean please?

It means that you can use your desktop PC to assign a drive letter to a directory on your laptop. That way, your PC will see, say "drive F:" as being the laptop drive, so you can access the files over the network and use a media player on the PC you're sitting in front of, rather than doing it remotely via VNC.

You don't need to actually map a drive letter, though, you just need to share the folder you want to access. So... on your laptop PC, browse to a suitable folder, right-click it and click "Properties" and you should see a "Sharing" tab which will allow you to share the folder (so it can be accessed by other devices on your network).

I can't recall all the relevant details off the top of my head, but there's plenty of relevant stuff here: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=file+sharing+network+windows

Quiet_Spark

JulyKnot wrote: »

Yes thanks. I did originally wonder about those but was worried about wireless not working too well ( wireless doorbells seem to fail dismally here) and didn't want to spend money if I could help it.

You are already using wireless, and there is no correlation between a camera and a doorbell as the frequency used for wireless doorbells is 443 MHz which is nowhere near the microwave band that wireless cameras operate at.