Thomas

It's ment to be used within a VPN, either router based or a SSH tunnel.

It looks like just a high end output card, not a new slot spec Rory.

But those have a blower unit in them don't they Rory?

Um, the replacement for AGP is PCI-E. Never heard of an ADD slot.

Um, for digital screens (DVI connector) then you just use a video card with DVI out.

Do they have any kind of cooling? And is that 95 degress inside the housing, or 95 degrees air tempature outside the unit. Keep in mind that if it's the later then you have to factor in that the housing is trapping heat.

There simply aren't as many needs for serial ports. Plus you can always add them via add-on cards.

MPEG-4 can look better at lower bitrates. It all depends on what the encoder is set at. But MJPEG does tend to have the least problems being portable.

Common buses: PCI-E: The next generation of slots. Black, comes in x1 x2 x4 x8 x16 flavors. Very fast. Very Expensive. PCI-X: An extention of PCI. A bit faster with larger data paths. Ment for server apps like NICs or raid arrays that can use the larger data paths. PCI: Old stand by. PCI-E is the replacement. AGP: For graphic cards. PCI-E is the replacement. ISA: Black, very thick, already dead but might be in one of Rory's PC's.

Given the number, I would be looking at multiple UPSs if only for redunancy.

Depends on what the drives will be for? Video storage? OS? MP3s? Pr0n? Over all I've found the raid support in XP to be alright. NFTS isn't as fault tolerant as ext3 but the major issue for any raid is hardware. SATA drives won't be as roubst as SCSI but they should last you a few years. Get a good raid card and you should be good.

Because reverse engineering has to be done carefully. Do it right and it's legal. Do it wrong and it's very expensive.

It requires more configuration but it can be done that way. Basicly you are setting up a second network and having the DVR act as a gateway.

I was asked this and I just don't know. How do you guys handle a when the cable has to go out a brick wall?

Thank you. Just again proving why I would hire someone else to run cable for me.

It would be the going out through the wall option.

Feature wise we compare very well. They do POS, we don't. We can support IP cameras, they can't.

Xecap boards will play nicely with that chipset. HiCap will not.

Focus. We're building more of an enterprise grade solution designed to scale up. Luxriot focuses on more consumer grade applications. We do better support, they are cheaper. I don't see anything on thier website about compression methods. We're allowing MJPEG, MPEG-4, WMV compression. Some of it is going to depend on how many cameras you're looking at. For four to eight cameras I would look at them. For 16 to 32 then I would be looking at us.

I should have been more clear. Don't use software raid.

Rory, please for the love of god don't use software spanning. It's failure rate is far too high what we use it for. I wouldn't use Raid 0 on two system drives. Maybe two seperate drives each in Raid 0 for speed, or both in 0+1. You won't see radical speed boosts that way but it won't hurt. Raid 0 can help on a drive storing large files (video clips).

You can get a bunch of channels on the K-Band Satillites for free.

Quick raid primer for Rory: Raid 0: Usually called stripping. Has great speed, zero redunancy. Usually used for two drives. Some raid controllers call this JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) Raid 1: Mirroring. One drive is copied to another in real time. Raid 0 + 1: Stripping and mirroring. Very fast way of redunancy for two drives. Raid 5: One drive out of a set is used for checksum data/redunancy info. 4x250 gb gets you 750 GB of drive space. 6x250 GB gets you 1250 GB. 5x400 gets you 1600 GB, etc. Those are the three most common forms of raid.

Well we hit a speed bump for speed but that doesn't stop proccessors from getting cheaper. The normal low ends that would have been bumped out of production have stayed in production.

Right now thier cost is too high to be anything but high end. In the future they will be standard. But right now they are just too expensive.