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Seen it done many times, and with the right cable it is not a problem. You have to remember if you have cabling in your HVAC and you have a fire there is potential for noxious gases to spread through your home, thus the need for plenum rated cable. I do suggest trying next to the HVAC or plumbing stack, often you can get up or down these locations with push sticks. Don't know when your place was built but in newer places I know they have started adding what we call future pipes, basically opening from the basement to second floor. Look around your basement for open holes.

I agree, pulling 2 wires is just as easy as one, if you want to save a bit of money you can pull a CAT5e and pull a quad alarm cable, if you can afford it pull 2 CAT5e, even if you never end up using the second cable its only like 60$ for a 1000FT box

Joe M Looks really good, I can't tell from the picture but it looks like that is the type of camera where you can unscrew it from the mounting arm, this would allow you to use a different mount, one with a longer arm. http://www.panavise.com/index.html?pageID=1&id1=14&startat=1&--woSECTIONSdatarq=14&--SECTIONSword=ww

Have you tried other default passwords such as admin, 123456, 111111, 000000, password, letmein these are all common default passwords. Also H.264 is not a DVR model, rather H.264 is a video compression algorithm, not sure how it came to be systems were awarded the name of H.264, does it have any serial numbers or anything on it?

I just did this in a recent install where they wanted 21 camera, but didnt want to pay for a 32 channel DVR, so we went with an 8 channel and a 16 channel.

It varies by manufacture, maybe port 9000? If you know the internal IP address of the DVR grab yourself zenmap and run a port scan against it, this should tell you what ports are open.

I would not suggest to push coax out to 1100FT not without a repeater. I believe what you are talking about is you used baluns to send the signal over ethernet, in which case passive you can usually go about 1000-1500 feet depending on the brand and I know guys who have sent signals 2KM over active to active. If you do go wireless be prepared to spend several hundred on your wireless bridge, don't fall for this 50$ ebay crap.

If you are going to put a large number of cameras on a single switch you want to make sure at least one port is a gigabit ethernet port, or it has the ability to take fiber, but now you are talking more advanced networking. And remember if you buy the NVR with POE built in you can not run it through a switch as you will lose the POE. As for the 60FT and 100FT cables you are using that came with the camera, if you only change some wiring, please make this the wiring you change, these cables have almost no shielding to them. I have never understood why people hire an electrician to pull low voltage wiring, my company does it and we do it at half the price of an electrician, don't need a master electrician to pull wiring.

Something tells me there is a media port you have missed and not forwarded, check your DVR for a media port and forward it. Also for testing I would say disable your firewall, then once everything works turn the firewall back on and troubleshoot if something stops working.

What is the distance on your longest run? Also do you currently have RG59-18/2 run, RG6, CAT5e, or some other type of cable? You could use a media converter if you want to run IP cameras down existing coax but this can be a costly option. You could try and use the existing cables to pull the new ones. IP cameras will only cause external network traffic if you are remotely viewing them, but I do suggest you put your IP cameras on their own switch, this can help reduce the chatter on your regular network. Do you have a budget in mind for this project?

There are already so many cheap fake cameras on the market, I doubt you will be able to assemble your own and make any money doing it, not when I can call China and get a whole skid for next to nothing.

Is the cable properly registering the comm port on your computer? Check in the device manager.

Have you tried the cable in a program like putty or another emulator I think hypertext was the one on XP? Did you make sure to get a null cable?

Try changing port 80 to something else, your ISP may be blocking port 80 to prevent people from hosting web servers in their homes.

You can view up to 64 cameras at once with it. http://blueirissoftware.com/7.html Perhaps you should visit the site and do some reading and make an informed decision for yourself.

Thought Avigilon manufactured in North Ameraica?

Haven't used it to excess myself, however people on this board like it, and for only $50 you cant really complain.

not $100, its £100 each camera for my budget. I'm in UK. I originally thought BNC -> Wireless However im not as savi with it as I'd like to be ideally. Also a IT Tech i know told me that the quality of BNC is horrid I'd be after ... not so much picture perfect just a respectable quality would be nice though. BNC is horrid? Its no IP 5MP image but if you get a half decent camera connected you can get good results. BNC is the connection method, like VGA. So that is like saying VGA is horrid, well no while it may be no HDMI I would not say it is horrid.

Blue Iris would be a good bet, the full version is less then 50$ http://blueirissoftware.com/8.html

I can tell you right now H.264 is not the manufacture, H.264 is a video compression standard, this term is often used to sell cheap rebranded units that actually have no name. The ports do not matter, you can assign what ever ports you want. You need to determine your external IP and use that outside of your network like MindTwist stated. The MAC address filtering is only for clients attempting to join the LAN, this will have no affect on external connections, this is not to say the firewall will not block them, so I would suggest turn the firewall off until you get it working then enable it if it still works great, if not you need to change your firewall settings.

the 3TB size probably is not supported by the firmware, you will need to use a smaller drive. I would say try and stay 1TB and below they should be supported.

Like I said previously his best bet would be to just use a roll of premade cable (as much as it pains me to say that) as this will be the easiest solutions. At the computer you need a DVR capture card, such as the many offerings from Geovision. You will also need one of these. http://www.amazon.com/Security-Camera-500mA-Power-Supply/dp/B002IS47D8 That will provide the power, the capture card will capture and allow you to record the video, and the premade cable has all the required connections.

If your switch is providing the POE you need to run an ethernet from the NVR back to the switch still to connect everything. Digimerge right now has a 4CH NVR with 4 x 2.1MP cameras on sale, forget the exact price but I believe its under 1200. Would really fit your budget.

Then I must have been doing it wrong all these years, because I have been connecting female BNC connectors to those. https://www.google.ca/search?q=F+connector&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=JaHeUey-DeOIyAHv5IGAAw&biw=1400&bih=949&sei=J6HeUYH_FMLCyQGHw4C4Cg That is what an F connector looks like clearly different.

You are correct, however the method used to split the output from the DVR depends on the video output options available on the DVR. If you have HDMI use an HDMI splitter. If VGA a VGA splitter If BNC video out either use a BNC 'T' adapter or go BNC to F connector and connect to a splitter then convert back to RCA at the TV.