# IP Camera restream

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/ip-camera-restream/46144>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [April 13, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/ip-camera-restream/46144 "2016-04-13T18:50:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Wiebe\_Veenstra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/34f0e0/32.png) [@Wiebe\_Veenstra](https://community.wowza.com/u/Wiebe_Veenstra)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/ip-camera-restream/46144/1 "2016-04-13T18:50:29Z")

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Goodevening,

I have 6 IP camera’s restreaming on Wowza, and when i set the bitrate from my Foscam Camera on 512kbps, is see later on the statics on Wowza the incomming is 2mbit…

Anybody know’s what the problem is ?

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Ramberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Andrew\_Ramberg](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Ramberg)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/ip-camera-restream/46144/2 "2016-04-15T14:53:35Z")

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Hello,

Would you please elaborate on this issue:

-Is the bitrate setting on the Foscam Camera a max bitrate or target?

-Are you looking at the individual stream bandwidth or the total bitrate for the Application?

Best regards,

Andrew