BLINK Camera review

I have been using these cameras for a few weeks now. For the most part, they work well, but they do have some serious downfalls. I shall review the short list of issues I have found thus far.

• The range is not stated anywhere I can find in its documentation that I have found yet, but the sync module has a range of approximately 100 feet from the router. This is an open-air range; 1 wall cut that range in half, and two walls cut it down to 2/3rds. However, this is fine for most small homes, not in my current situation.
• Range lacks due to poor radio power on the sync module itself. Again, the module’s power is not stated anywhere in the documentation, but I suspect it is less than 1/4 of the output power of a standard router, possibly even 1/8th.
• Lack of the ability to add an external antenna to increase the range.
• Sync Module is vulnerable to disconnects in low or dirty power states. I have had one sync module disconnect every one and a half hours sometimes less and could not figure out what was going on. I moved the module several times, different outlets, dedicated outlets still the problem persisted. Suspected it was a faulty module, Blink support sent me a new one, still the problem persisted. Then I began suspecting internet issues and called my provider, again no issues found. I was stumped. Well since I had two sync modules I would move a camera to the other sync module. I moved my door bell camera, which is located at the perimeter gate of the property. HMMM no power there, so I hooked it up to a 20000 MAH power bank. It stayed up and running for 4.5 days on that power bank with no loss of connectivity. Mean while dropped connections still persisted on the other one. Both Modules still connect to the same wi-fi router, the only difference is power source. So I now have the second sync module connected to the exact same type of power bank we shall see what happens in the next 24 hours.