Long story short, the performance is amazing now that it’s getting a good signal. I got a WIFI extender, which benefited me beyond just the doorbell, as I had WIFI dead spots at the extremities of my home anyway. The issue is that it has a really weak WIFI antennae. When I first installed it, my experience was abysmal. I’ve been using the Ring Pro for a few weeks now and it’s great. Top it off with people not understanding how WiFi works and blaming the poor performance of Ring (or SkyBell for that matter) on the device rather than their WiFi network, I can see how people might try and blame it on some sort of scheme to get them to pay the money.

Live View was a feature requested by the Ring community and they delivered, I would imagine lots of these reviews were when Live View was new and still quite buggy.

Personally I have no experience of Ring without a subscription though I highly doubt Ring is stifling Live View if you don’t pay. I don’t want to say anything that would come across as knocking SkyBell because I’m not but my money is definitely in on Ring, like you say, different strokes. It’s a fair point and certainly a very good comparison as well, so thank you for pointing that out. So you have personal experience with Ring without the subscription? And you’re happy with it? I can justify upgrading to the latest and greatest Skybell every few years with the money saved from a lack of subscription. In a 5 year snapshot, you essentially spend $350 on Ring compared with $200 on Skybell. (Friendly rant: No, $30 isn’t expensive, but Skybell doesn’t charge a thing for their cloud, so I’d rather give my money to a company that isn’t looking to nickel and dime you. Say that their live view had diminished greatly right after they cancelled. That’s what I assumed, but Amazon reviews are scathing from those that have cancelled their subscription.

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