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You have to remember 192.168.1.x even when combined into a socket through the use of adding the port as 192.168.1.x:XXXX is still only an internal IP address. This address can not be accessed from outside of your local lan. To access your DVR from outside of your LAN you need to correctly tell your router that when it recives an outside connection for that port number where to forward it within your LAN, also known as port forwarding. To access it from the outside you need to find your external IP address, the IP address assigned to your router, google whatsmyip. Now onto the problems, chances are you have a dynamic external IP address, meaning this address may change from time to time, this is where you will need to setup DDNS to keep track of your changing external IP address, I would suggest looking at something like dyndns.

Chances are without paying for a special package with your ISP they will not give you a static IP address as there is a shortage of addresses. A DDNS option will work perfectly however they take a little effort to setup.

Also keep in mind you have single and double stage cutters. A single stage can cut away the outer cable then be adjusted to cut the inner cable, or you can get a double stage cutter which will do both with 1 tool. As for working out of the box almost any cutter you buy you will need to adjust for the cable you are cutting so you get a good clean cut.

Your problem is 192.168.1.100 is a private IP address, thus why you can not see it from outside of your home; it is not publicly routable. Class C private addressing was designed to help with the IPV4 shortage by allowing a single public IP address to server multiple private IP addresses. You need to go to a site like whatsmyip.com and it will show you what your external IP address is. This is the IP address of your modem, and thus what you need to connect to your system from outside of your home.

May I ask how it is you have two public IP addresses on 2 vlans with 1 router? Or are there two routers and two switches each on their own network entirely? None of that gear looks like it would support VLANs. Sounds more like it may be some sort of DHCP lease issue or something.

I have never used them but I would assume it is just transfering the video signal from coax to a network cable. What would worry me more is the 10 base T rating. Most devices now are 100/1000 base T.

Im going to assume by now that you have probably placed the drive back in the DVR and started to record to it again. However if this is not the case, the drive as you saw is formatted as a linux partition, you will need to look at some data recovery software which should be able to get the data back for you. You could try something like Helix, or Backtrack 5 or SANs forensic toolkit or do a google search for linux partition recovery software.

Sounds to me like you are trying to use one of your private IP addresses to route publically across the internet. This will not work, you need to find out the external facing IP address of your router and use that to access it from home. An IP address of 192.168.1.100 is a class C private IP address. When at work do a google search for whats my ip and it will tell you what your public IP address is. Once you have a public IP address, and have made sure the correct ports are forwarded on the router, so you would forward port 9000 to the internal IP address of the router and make sure the port can accept connections through any firewall that is in place. Then you will be able to access from home. Now you also have the issue of the posibility you have a dynamic IP address assigned to you, this means it has the potential to change now we are talking a DDNS situation to keep track of the correct IP. Steps: 1 determine internal IP of DVR system ie 192.168.1.101 2 determine external IP go to whatsmyip.com and it will tell you 3 port forwarding on router, forward port 9000 to the internal IP address of 192.168.1.101 4 make sure the port 9000 is allowed through any firewalls. now test from home.

Right now hard drive prices have gone back up some, due to the flooding in Thiland. Generally most SATA drives are the same, yes some are built to be greener and some for speed and performance. As far as bad sectors that would be more so up to the DVR how to handle it and usually its just marked as bad and ignored. I have found that a constant recording works better as it keeps the drive spinning, instead of the constant start and stop of motion activated recored. For a 1TB drive right now you are looking between $130-180 depending on the class you go with. I would not worry about SCSI and would say stick with SATA. As for external you have to remember USB will have a slower write speed then a regular SATA drive, so as far as using an external it can be done but may not work as well. I would suggest purchases 1 or 2 SATA 1TB drives. Installation is usually as simple as opening the cover of the DVR and inserting the correct cables into the drives.

Limitation of cat5 is 300ft or 100m so at 90m you will be fine. As for the VGA, 20ft will be no problem at all

I have never used one of these and am not really sure what these are used for? Can someone explain to me what one would use a multiplexer for?

Another great suggestion by Soundy. What does the hub go for though?

Thanks SEANHAWG, now i understand what they are used for, didnt think they had much use with modern day DVR's, however If I get one for the right price I have some cool ideas as to what I can use some for, gonna check out your store!

I didnt even ask the original question and I love these ideas, can save me a lot of cabling time in the future!

I wouldnt worry to much about dropping your portable TV, I have never dropped mine and I put it down on ladders sky jacks, everywhere and it still works

You will have no problem going 300ft over cat5, I just did an install last week and went over 600ft on cat5 no problems.

That is along the lines of what I was thinking, then I can decide how far I want to drop the camera, guess a trip to the hardware store is in order to look at what they have.

I am looking for a 12V DC 500Ma power adapter with screw terminals, however I am having trouble finding any. Does anyone know where I may get these without paying 200$ for shipping? It would be perferable if I was able to get my Cat5 cabling and Bulans in the same place. Open to suggestions.

http://www.easterncctv.com/accessories/cc6100-t-f.htm I ordered those, but I ordered female for the camera end. I know Im not using power over ethernet, but I will be using utp with 4 cables for + and 4 for - to provide power.

For the camera end I bought female adapters to send power over ethernet, did I make a mistake? Im thinking I needed to get male for the camera end?

http://www.cctvsecuritypros.com/securitycamerasystem.html I am looking at purchasing this kit for a customer as they only want to spend about 4 grand and want to get 8 cameras with DVR and all. I would like to get some peoples opinion on this kit, such as the cameras or if anyone has any suggestions on a better kit for roughly the same price. Also does anyone know if these cameras will mount into a regular housing unit for box cameras?

No need to worry the runs I am covering are far to great to be covered with premade cables, will be using cat5 utp

I was just curious, about to buy 8 cameras and wanted to make sure I didnt end up with a bunch of bnc adapters I didnt need.

If you are worried about storage on the system get a pci sata card and a hot swappable raid cage and load it up with some 1 or 2tb hard drives storage problem solved.

I fully understand that and have had that conversation with the customer and they fully understand that by setting a price limit and dictating the number of cameras the system must support they are only going to get what ever it is the kit provides and that it is only going to be a half decent solution and not top of the line.