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Ring's default is event clips, not continuous video. What a subscription adds, which devices can take the 24/7 Recording add-on and what it switches off, and how long each kind of footage survives.
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A Ring camera does not buffer footage to upload later, so an outage is simply lost time. What stops the moment Wi-Fi drops, what an Alarm Pro, Power over Ethernet, and a phone hotspot each change, and what local storage does not.
Ring quotes about 30 feet of motion range, which says nothing about whether you could identify the person it recorded. Field of view per model, how far a face stays identifiable, night vision limits, and the settings that shrink your range.
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