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Yeah, good idea Revo2Maxx, I should have done that before so I had a stable network set up regardless of ISP. Grr..

Do you have the ability to set the router to use the exact same SSID and password as the old one? Then they'll automatically connect, at which point you can configure them with your new network settings and change it back.

Also, your smartphone probably will let you do this as a Hotspot...? Another option is to install a 3rd party Hotspot on your computer (I sometimes use Connectify).

Definitely a good idea, but already reset cameras in an attempt to set up via Amcrest's instructions. Next time! I am marking this closed as the only solution that has worked is to run a long ethernet cable to the installed cameras.

It is probably too late to help, but your phone is probably on 5 ghz if it is fairly recent. My 2 year old phone does and I could not get the wifi process to work either, but then I pulled out an older tablet that runs on 2.4 ghz and it was an instant fix. Weirdly, sometimes it didn't emit the audio tone, but in one case the camera connected anyway.