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Hi, I am interested in purchasing a new home surveillance system for my residence. I was looking at Qsee and Swann but hear those are not that really good. I've been pointed towards Dahua and wanted to see if anyone can help. I am looking for either an 8 or 16 channel system that can recognize faces indoor and outdoors. Debating over a typical analog system D1 or an IP system. My only concern with IP system is that it would be connecting to my home DSL line and I'm not sure I have the bandwidth to cover 8-12 cameras. Not too concerned with real time remote viewing but am really interested in getting good details from picture if and when I need it. I have 6.75 Mbps download and .86 Mbps upload. Can you assist in any recommendations?

I think out of convenience I will connect my cameras to my POE switch as well as my NVR to my switch and then a single Cat5e connection to my home router since I only have one port left. If things slow down then I may need to rethink things.

Ok. Thanks everyone for the help.

Don't know if this helps but I have the ZyXEL 16-Port ES1100-16P 10/100 PoE Switch. Not Gigabit. I also have the ASUS RT-N66U wirless 4 port router. I also will be running 4 1.3 Mp cameras(720p) at 15 fps. Maybe 30fps. still looking for some help since there seems to be so much debate. Thanks again.

Buellwinkle. Are you suggesting going with Blake's suggesting? Everything into the POE switch and then POE switch into my router? This is said by someone that clearly does not understand how switches work. You can follow this advice and slow down your entire home network if you like.

Sorry but a bit of a newb here. I have a 16 port POE switch.(8 POE and 8 regular) 4 POE cameras. 1 NVR(No POE ports) 1 Consumer 4 port Router/AP. Do I plug the 4 cameras into 4 POE ports on the switch. Then plug a Cat5e cable from the non-POE port on switch to my consumer router and then another Cat5e cable from the NVR into the consumer router. Do I have that correct? Neither. You need to plug all the cameras into the PoE switch using the PoE ports. You also need to connect both the PoE switch and the NVR and to your "router" (assuming by router you mean a consumer grade router / wireless access point / switch). You can do this by connecting both the NVR and "router" into the PoE switch using the remaining 8 ports, or you can connect both the NVR and the PoE switch to the switch in the "router". If by "through" you mean going WAN to LAN side I'd agree. If you're simply referring to using the LAN side switch in the router/AP unit it doesn't really matter if the NVR is plugged into the switch in the router or the PoE switch that the cameras are directly plugged into (assuming the PoE switch and router's switch are connected).

One last question. Since I am new to this I was wondering the configuration for the setup. Do my 8 cameras feed into the POE switch and then the POE switch into my NVR and then the NVR into my router. Or does it go. cameras into my POE switch. Switch into my router. NVR into my router.

Sorry but I was originally looking at the 8 port POE switch but ended up getting the 16 port switch for cheaper. It has 8 POE ports and I can use one of the non-POE ports for my router. Totally forgot. THanks

Unfortunately the 16 port only has 8 POE ports and one has to be used for connection to router. If I want to run 8 cameras then I am one port short.

So I've decided on the following setup from securitycameraking. 16 Channel IP NVR NVR-ELM-16 and 1.3 Megapixel IR Dome IPOD-EL1MPIR50. I am now looking at which POE switch to use and have heard several people talk about Zyxel. My question is that I plan on using 8 IP cameras but know that the Zyxel 8 port POE switch require at least one port for my Router which leaves me only 7 powered ports. What is the recommendation on another Zyxel port that can power 8 POE ports plus one more router port. Thanks

Hi, I am interested in purchasing a new home surveillance system for my residence. I was looking at Qsee and Swann but hear those are not that really good. I've been pointed towards Dahua and wanted to see if I can get some assistance. I am looking for either an 8 or 16 channel system that can recognize faces indoor and outdoors. Debating over a typical analog system D1 or an IP system. My only concern with IP system is that it would be connecting to my home DSL line and I'm not sure I have the bandwidth to cover 8-12 cameras. Not too concerned with real time remote viewing but am really interested in getting good details from picture if and when I need it. I have 6.75 Mbps download and .86 Mbps upload. Can you assist in any recommendations?

So I've decided on the following setup from securitycameraking. 16 Channel IP NVR NVR-ELM-16 and 1.3 Megapixel IR Dome IPOD-EL1MPIR50. I am now looking at which POE switch to use and have heard several people talk about Zyxel. My question is that I plan on using 8 IP cameras but know that the Zyxel 8 port POE switch require at least one port for my Router which leaves me only 7 powered ports. What is the recommendation on another Zyxel port that can power 8 POE ports plus one more router port. Thanks