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Is there a way to turn all my cameras off at once, like I can do with the “snooze all”? Since hubby’s been working from home, whenever a camera goes off, it cuts him off his computer calls. ‍♀️. I have 5 of the stick up cams and the doorbell if that makes a difference.  
Is there a way to turn all my cameras off at once, like I can do with the “snooze all”?

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+3 votes
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Best answer
Sounds like you need to investigate QOS for your router. I use eero, and they have a QOS setting called Smart Queue Management. This doesn’t allow a single device on your network to use all the bandwidth, which is what seems to be happening to you. Your Ring device is ‘seizing’ all the bandwidth, disconnecting/downgrading other connections.  
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@jactitation I was going to suggest that but its way technical for most people. And honestly, I have over 100 iot devices and the only one that cause issues is ring. Many of my other cameras with motion notification don’t do this. Including other doorbells
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@schnorkle2 I get that, but if you have a poor broadband plan, especially with low upload speeds, this can cause serious problems.  
by (380 points)
@jactitation agreed. Iirc there is a recommended value for Speedtest. I’m don’t remember where ring published that.  
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by (380 points)
I have this same problem with just one doorbell. It’s even isolated to it’s own wireless network. I’ve yet to put a network sniffer on the wire to see what it’s actually doing, but how much bandwidth can a notification alert really take?  
by (190 points)
@schnorkle2 it’s something with the recording motion. I currently have to click on each cam and go to settings and disable record motion when he starts his day. I was thinking there had to be another way to do it all at once.  
by (190 points)
@schnorkle2 whenever it recognizes motion and records it it boots his computer based calls off.  
by (380 points)
@brittaneybrittani48 I see. But if you turn that off it’s just a doorbell then? No recording of people who don’t push the button?  
by (190 points)
@schnorkle2 I have to turn ALL my cameras off, the 5 stick up cams AND my doorbell.  
by (190 points)
@schnorkle2 no recording at all.  
by (380 points)
@brittaneybrittani48  that’s just wrong.  
by (190 points)
@schnorkle2 I know!  
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