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[BAMoh]

Dlink Support tells me that each camera streams Video continuously to their server even if I'm not using the Mydlink app or webpage to connect eating up bandwidth on local network all the time. They say I have added too many cameras and my network bandwidth is exhausted.  I thought the cameras only sent video when the app or webpage was connected to the camera?  Anyway, my cameras go down and are no longer a way to me to keep an eye on my home when I am away.

The Dlink server was up since I could see the few remaining cameras that were still up.

If you were told you dont have enough bandwith and you only have 2 cams they are BS ing you.

[FurryNutz]

The user has more than 2 cameras...

[BAMoh]

The user has more than 2 cameras...

How many?

[FurryNutz]

All listed in the users post.   

[thehill]

Dlink link Support has advised me that even if you are loggin to the Dlink website or to Dlink Lite app, their cameras stream to the dlink server continually using your network bandwidth. They say to allocate 2-3 MB for each 932 cam and more for the HD cams in HD mode. They advise that you should have a top tier internet service to use IP cams.  They say using their cams significantly hurt your network /Internet performance for other uses if you use their cams.

I guess next time I'm around Ill have to get a packet sniffer and see what it is actually doing. It seems silly that they would stream video when no one is watching it.

Euzzy, what should the DNS be set to. My settings are the same s yours even IP address except that I have the DNS set to the WAN IP address?

[FurryNutz]

Interesting. Well I've always had my 933L connected and it's been working. I do know that my DNR-202L does some bandwidth hogging so I turn it off when I'm gaming at night. One thing to think about, a camera is recording video or producing video. It's designed to be online ALL the time and thus users who connect to them want to see the video. The video stream is online all the time and when associated with the MDL service, it's just there and waiting for them all the time. I presume there would be some issues and problems if the design was different and harder to trouble shoot problems if something like On-Demand video streaming was in place where the camera would only stream video when accessed by a user. Would be hard to troubleshoot streaming problems in this kind of manor rather then the camera being online all the time. Besides, I presume all cameras maybe like this anyways and been like this for a while.
You might connect up one of the cameras via LAN wire and look at the networking activity on a LED if you have a switch or router that indicates network activity via LED. East way to see visually.

You don't need top tier ISP services for a few cameras. I had 50/3 with my one 933L however maybe higher is needed for more than 3 or more.

I used my ISP default DNS addresses in the DNS boxes on the camera.