This article introduces the bandwidth required for Live View, FTP Uploading, Email Alerts and Push Notifications for Reolink IP cameras.

Applies to: All Reolink IP cameras and NVR (Reolink battery-powered cameras excluded)

The maximum bitrate is different for different models, if you already bought the camera, you can find the bitrate on your camera's settings, if you haven't bought camera yet, you can find your model's bitrate on the Model > Spec > Code Rate part via Reolink official website.

1. Bandwidth for Live View

The bandwidth of Reolink IP cameras depends on the Stream Mode you choose.
You may check or change the bitrate and set the stream mode to view the cameras.

If you choose Clear mode, then the bandwidth is the same as the Bitrate under clear mode.
If you choose Fluent Type, then the bandwidth is the same as the Bitrate under fluent mode.

In Clear mode: the maximum Bitrate is 8192 kbps

In Fluent mode: the maximum Bitrate is 512 kbps

2. Bandwidth for FTP Uploading

In Clear mode: the maximum Bitrate is 8192 kbps

In Fluent mode: the maximum Bitrate is 512 kbps

You may set up the upload video resolution according to your needs.

Note: Some cameras do not support FTP feature: Which Cameras/NVRs Support FTP Uploading

3. Bandwidth for Email Alerts

The bandwidth for email notifications is not very high. You can choose to attach text, a picture, text & pictures, or text & video to the email alerts. If you set the email notification to attach text & video, the required bandwidth is about 1.6kbps (for cameras with hardware IPC_515/513).

You can set up the email attachment here.

Note: The videos attached in the email are 8s long. The length cannot be changed. The camera will send 4KB data every 20s. For cameras (hardware IPC_515/513), the bandwidth for email notification (with video attached) is 4KB/20s=1.6kbps.

4. Bandwidth for Push Notifications

Bandwidth for push notifications can be ignored, as the push file is very small (less than 1KB) so it takes up a very small amount of bandwidth.

5. Bandwidth for NVR

If you use a Reolink NVR, the NVR itself takes up almost no bandwidth. It is only necessary to calculate the sum of the bandwidth consumed by all cameras.

If you have the camera upload the clear video (maximum bitrate) to the FTP server, view the clear video (maximum bitrate) on Reolink App at the same time, and have enabled the email notification with a video attached, the total bandwidth needed would be: 8192+8192+1.6=16385.6kbps, approximately 16Mbps.