Quality of service (QoS) support for CCTV video? 3 - 4 IP camera network. Thx!
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Well, there is no QoS, but there is something else which is better, in this router you can create a group for cameras and create Granted Upload speed which is better than QoS especially if you have several cameras and another devices using the same network. This router will use one WAN at a time not both, and one WAN will be back up for the other. so if you are looking for a load balancer buy the highest models, and by the way this one have no POE and its speed is 100Mbps.
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Are you asking if there is a specific setting? No, there isnt. However, you can add all the IP cameras to a 'Group', then give that Group certain permissions, policies, and routes. So, if you have the Camera Group, you can allocate that group minimum bandwidth and priorities, limitations, etc. Example would set a policy to always have a minimum of 5mbps available to the Camera Group. Also, you can specify which WAN you want the cameras to always use if you are using more than one WAN. Example of this would be to have your normal household connected devices (PC, laptop, tablets, etc) in a Home Group and use WAN 1, with the Camera Group using WAN2.
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Are you asking if there is a specific setting? No, there isnt. However, you can add all the IP cameras to a 'Group', then give that Group certain permissions, policies, and routes. So, if you have the Camera Group, you can allocate that group minimum bandwidth and priorities, limitations, etc. Example would set a policy to always have a minimum of 5mbps available to the Camera Group. Also, you can specify which WAN you want the cameras to always use if you are using more than one WAN. Example of this would be to have your normal household connected devices (PC, laptop, tablets, etc) in a Home Group and use WAN 1, with the Camera Group using WAN2. Are you asking if there is a specific setting? No, there isnt. However, you can add all the IP cameras to a 'Group', then give that Group certain permissions, policies, and routes. So, if you have the Camera Group, you can allocate that group minimum bandwidth and priorities, limitations, etc. Example would set a policy to always have a minimum of 5mbps available to the Camera Group. Also, you can specify which WAN you want the cameras to always use if you are using more than one WAN. Example of this would be to have your normal household connected devices (PC, laptop, tablets, etc) in a... » Read More Are you asking if there is a specific setting? No, there isnt. However, you can add all the IP cameras to a 'Group', then give that Group certain permissions, policies, and routes. So, if you have the Camera Group, you can allocate that group minimum bandwidth and priorities, limitations, etc. Example would set a policy to always have a minimum of 5mbps available to the Camera Group. Also, you can specify which WAN you want the cameras to always use if you are using more than one WAN. Example of this would be to have your normal household connected devices (PC, laptop, tablets, etc) in a Home Group and use WAN 1, with the Camera Group using WAN2. « Show Less
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The switch seems to handle the three POE ip cams i have installed just fine. "foscams" Which cameras are you going to use? I also have Blue IRIS insalled on a PC. Blue Iris does a decent job at managing the cameras, but i have noticed that performce is weak when trying to do continues recording from 3 cameras. Some of that may be the pc im using but i am unwilling to invest in a new computer for just the purpose of running the cameras. There is not a lot of documentation with the software and its not very intuitive. I have 4 total and it will work with a wide verity of cameras. I dont have any experience with NVR's. I have looked into them but they seem pretty pricy. If you have not bought any cameras or equipment yet, I would strongly point you in the direction of CCTV systems. You can easily get a system for the same cost of buying 4 POE cameras. I wish someone had told me this before i got started. You will still be required to pull the cable to cameras either way. I think the upside with CCTV would be that the dVR is doing all the recording continusly. They do a great "Superior" job at what they are designed to do. PC based systems are kind of shakey at this price point. In most cases you can record up to two weeks worth at a time, with several cameras with a DVR system and have alerts sent and motion triggers. I have seen the difference in between my setup and two different CCTV systems. One of them "lorex" and the second "swan" If I had it to do all over again i would go with CCTV. Id buy a 4 camera set with a dVR with room to expand up to 8 cameras. I started with one camera and now have four. Its good to have room to grow. Just FYI I have seen a 4 camera setup with 4, 700 lines of resolution cameras for less or close then what your going to spend on POE. One last note you will also be able to remote monitor with your smart phone or web browser just like using POE and Blue Iris. More info then you wanted I know, but just my 2 cents!
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Any ip camera software will work. We use bot blue iris as well as other pic and smartphone software.
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Cameras are scanned for with foscam software on DVD comes w/camera. Must be direct connect to router. Scan provides IP address. Then you can do wireless or hard wire after that. Input IP address into Blue Iris console screen option. I have 4 connected (3 wired, 1 wireless) and all work fine.
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I would guess that 100Mbps might be enough bandwidth for 4 cameras, but it depends on the amount and nature of the data they are all sending through at the same time. I would look at the manufacturers recommendations for the network speed to be sure. I'm not familiar with Blue Iris, but many of those types of solutions serve as the network video recorder as well as the access point for the phone apps, unless they are cloud based like Logitech's, for example.
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I have 3 cameras and I haven't seen any issues. I only look at my cameras 3-5 times per day so I may have just missed the issue. Are you using different port numbers for each camera? Are you using myfoscam.org as your host? Did you add the IP address of your cameras to your router manually?
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That's exactly what I wanted to do and it worked fine except for one thing: I wasn't able to create an application rule allowing web cams to tunnel through the firewall. The tech support was very good but couldn't figure it out.
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Sorry I don't know the answer to that question, I thought about going wifi, did a little research I found out that the security system would hog up all my wifi power and that computers would lag possibility of camera lag along with other devices, so I hard wired everything all cameras which is time consuming but reliable and now I don't have to worry about all my other devices.
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Its a pain but you can upgrade it to unifi through ssh connection and some work. I gave up with a bit of trying and trouble getting support to understand my questions.Once you do this you must make sure your cameras are also on unfi as well. You loose a feature or two but it fixes some issue with monitoring and latency.
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sorry i cannot anwser your question as i got very disgusted with their help desk and none of cameras worked as advertised. i bought four of them and returned them
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I don't know how much bandwidth you will need. I suspect it will depend on how many cameras you install. I have an 18 mbs Uverse internet with two cameras and it didn't seem to slow anything down. I would call the support people at Dropcam to get your answer. They are great to work with.
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You can set fixed IP addresses up on this unit, which I guess your cameras could use, but it doesn't have any USB ports to utilise.
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If you mean to set up the details of how the camera works? YES. Im a little technical and this camera is not a simple plug and play. I have yet to figure out how to get it to work on wi-fi so I have it plugged into ethernet and still have some kinks to work out. The quality of the day/night viewing is amazing and it basically works as a IP Camera. I think im going to buy some different software as I cant seem to get the record to work well.
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This camera operates on the 2.4 GHZ band. However it is not an IP camera. It is switch selectable between two different frequencies of four allotrd by the FCC for this type of equipment. Also be aware the signal is not digitally encoded.However I have had no interferance with my wireless router or other home network devices while operating these cameras 24 hours a day. i hope this information is helpfull.
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If it's working ok as is, I wouldn't try to update it. If however you need to update it, there are some helpful forums online ( ip cam talk) that will get you what you need.
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Don't know. Sent it back the next day. Won't transmit more than 50 feet. Don't waisted youR money.I went for 8 camera system from CCTV.COM WORKS FLAWLESSLY
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You could but you should know that the bandwidth of ip cameras can consume a lot. So depending on how many you intend to use and also the configuration of the AP's (how many will be repeating) it can bog things down quickly. Remember that if you are repeating, it takes away half of available bw for each time you repeat.