Digital_Max

yes you are right, my bad, the 5 mega pix cam i'm working on is streaming 24megs per second. thank wire guy, cheers.

Hey mate, You can take all your IP cams back to the main switch to make it easier to service in future, you will also need to have a POE switch to power the cameras as long as the cameras are POE. a 1.3 Mega-pix cam will stream 24mb per second so times that by number of cameras to calculate type/size of POE switch to get. if you wanted to record at D1 res then you would need a recording software that will support Mega-Pix cams, a decent software would cost around $400 AUD plus camera licenses. good luck.