The Bandwidth that Reolink IP Cameras Require

Applies to: All Reolink IP cameras (Reolink battery-powered cameras, E1, E1 pro, E1 zoom, B400, D400, B800, D800, and cameras connected to Reolink NVRs excluded).

This article introduces the bandwidth required for LiveView, FTP uploading, email notifications and push notifications.

1. Bandwidth for LiveView

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

In Clear mode: the maximum Bitrate is 8192 kbps

In Fluent mode: the maximum Bitrate is 512 kbps

​You may change the bitrate and set the stream mode to view the cameras.

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.

3. Bandwidth for email notifications:

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

You may set up the email attachment here.

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.

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