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Have you tried running a speed checker to see the actual speeds across various 4g networks? some of them can be quite reasonable now. I get 20-30 mbps on download and 15-20 upload on Vodafone 4g where I am. You could get a free/low cost sim from each carrier - test them out to see which offers...

Possibly the shutter speeds in tandem with the frequency of the ambient lighting? Is it something that only happens at night? Or is it day and night?

Some Hikvision cameras have wifi capabilities - and as such you could log into the camera to reduce quality settings to suit the available bandwidth - but the danger would be by going so low in quality that the end result picture might not be overly useable. Have you looked at changing broadband...

What cameras are you using now? Are they connected to a network video recorder? When you say you're having difficulty keeping connected - do you mean your cameras are wifi based? Or that your phone/tablet/laptop isn't able to access them due to poor internet? If they are wifi based - what's...

I can echo the above having recently used some Ubiquiti stuff to create a wireless bridge - non-ubiquiti POE switches wouldn't power a Ubiquiti unit that could be POE powered, and a Ubiquiti POE injector that I had wouldn't run a camera. So from my own experience I'd say try a different brand -...

Ok that'll be helpful to those that know the camera better than I do. You do realise that when the light goes off though, if it's pretty dark - the camera will see mostly nothing. It's currently set to come on automatically when the light falls, so that it can illuminate the area directly in...

I'm not familiar with Swann systems, but you could look at using a POE switch at the NVR end of the cable that has long range capabilities, and is suited to surveillance camera use. There's a TP-Link switch that I've used that has been working quite well - where it claims to be able to operate...

Day / Night is greyed out as that usually controls the infra red lights. Your camera model doesn't have infra red - but a mini white LED light. As this isn't a camera I've used - I'll have to let the experts guide you as to whether it's customisable. (I believe it is - and it's in a different...

I've used Logitech cheap end wireless mice for around £10 on Amazon - and have one where the NVR is about ten metres away, and works perfectly.

Check what your 'slowest' shutter speed is set to. If it's too long - you'll only get a few frames per second - however shortening it will likely result in a poorer image as less light will reach the sensor. It's a bit trial and error - I like to keep the slowest speed to around 1/100 if I can...

Works fine as in - has picture - can move - records? And then between those times - powers down and you get nothing?

Apologies - I thought the model number quoted was a 16 channel only - can see that although it has the 16 in the model number, it does in fact have 32 available channels - and yes as above - a POE switch will be just the answer.

You need another 16 channel NVR. You can't connect 32 cameras to a 16 channel NVR. It's 16 channels - so 16 cameras.

Yes - have been thinking about a UPS - but as it's so remote, we're not sure how long the power cuts are lasting for. I might add the 'monitoring' through Hik-pro connect to see if I can see how often it happens and for how long. If it's a case of it's a half an hour a time - a UPS can certainly...

That certainly looks like one - I feel a bit more confident going up armed with a battery now to give that a try.

I popped a donated NVR into a local church last year that's sitting on top of a mountain all by itself (aside from the pub next to it), and it seems to be having regular power cuts. The NVR then forgets what day it is and goes back to 2004. Do NVR's have batteries like PC's do to remember...

Funnily enough I get this issue on one camera as well - the one at the front door. The recording on the NVR is fine, all the data is there, and it's a nice smooth video when I play it directly. When the postman comes up the path, it triggers a front door 'intrusion alert' - but when I watch back...

Direct to NVR I don’t think there’s a way to auto start it - but if you connect the camera to a POE switch that then connects to the NVR - you can access the cameras direct control via web browser. Set your patrol in the camera rather than the NVR and then set the schedule to do what you want...

And it worked - at 8.30pm it zoomed to preset 8

That worked :) I tested it for the current time - and when set for a 'period' it moved positions. That's a learning for me thinking it was just sending a command to change preset. Thanks for your reply :)