DONINAUSTIN

If it is an AHD system, there should not be any "bandwidth" issues that will cause delays to your DVR unit. Unless it is a poorly designed DVR. Other things can be a faulty harddrive causing system instability. In other words if you are using a slower desktop harddrive instead of a CCTV harddrive, like western digitals black drive, or Seagate's SV35 range. But, that is a small possibility. If you are complaining about the remote view, even a 100mb network with cameras on this resolution should not cause problems. Since your internet is more than fast enough I would propose the processor like you stated on this dvr is of a poor quality Or the network port is a problem...... I don't think there is any problem writing to the hard drives -- 2 WD 4 TB drives. I am suspicious of the DVR having a slow processor for one reason because it is very slow to boot up. When I look at DVRs for sale I never see processor specs nor specs for the ethernet speed. I can live with it by manipulating frame rates, bitrates etc. but would rather not. I could buy a much better DVR, but what if it did the same thing? Don

I recently bought a 1080p/AHD DVR that overall works well despite its bargain price. I am running 7 x 1080P cameras and 5 x 960h at this time. I would like to add 4 more cameras and make them all 1080P AHD analog. This is a 16 ch DVR. However, I occasionally run into bandwidth limitations such that not all the cameras can be viewed. It is worse when somebody at the shop is viewing cameras on the LAN and I try to view from my home. The shop, (where the cameras are) has Google Fiber 1 gig up and down, so the internet connection is surely NOT the bottleneck. The LAN at the shop is all 1 gigabit. I cut frame rates down to the minimum needed -- 4-7 FPS -- and use VBR with 2048 bitrate limits. I assume the bandwidth is limited by the DVR's processor speed? Or is it the ethernet connection in the DVR? I have no specs for what the ethernet spec is. Where is the bottleneck and how can the bandwidth be increased? I am guessing only by spending much more on the VCR? Thanks from Don in Austin