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+100 but we have been down this road already. Very true, and I was able to auto track the whole thing. But you missed most of it because there where to many objects I remember attending Axis training and them saying not to use auto tracking in the 233D because it was more of a toy then anything else

Our NVR solution can back up the full 2 weeks to a second drive or USB stick automatically and you can have full control of the exported video when you are back at your office. I would get 2 drives or sticks and swap them every 2 weeks.

+100 but we have been down this road already.

Customers don't pay me for convenient... they pay me for a solution that works.

This is why you don't use cameras with built-in IR. Keep the IR away from the camera and the bugs will stay away.

ssnapier I would love to see xellbuy's resume. Apparently he does some top secret work for some company that can't be talked about and he has a Amazon web store that he will deny he owns. Though he might be good at doing your books

Cat6 is over kill for camera to switch connections. Cameras only have a 10/100 port that being said it's not a bad idea to use Cat6 if the rest of your building is Ca6 always plan for the future. In your situation I would use shielded cabling if you have to run cabling around electric and heavy machinery.

If your cameras are outside you can expect motion events for at least 75% of the day and if its windy rainy or snowy it will be 100% Make sure you are not violating your ISP's terms of service. Good luck

It is no secret that Milestone uses a lot of CPU cycles to run their software.

It depends on the sensor that is in the cameras CMOS does not always need AA see Arecont and Mobotix.

What are this cameras going to cover? Are they inside with no motion or outside covering parking lots and other areas? Also another option would be VideoIQs Railto 4 channel encoder with analog cameras. With the built in storage and analytics there cameras are perfect fit for low bandwidth locations. I have installed many of their HD cameras for projects like your talking about.

Keep in mind with the whole FTP thing your going to be looking though hundreds or thousands of folders to look at video files. Also it's go that you have buffering video locally but you are still transmitting the SAME amount of data over your WAN connection so you are going to have the same issues. Just because you are storing the video locally doesn't mean that you are magically going to have less data to send of your WAN connection. I think the Exacq on camera storage or something like it would be your best option

You need IR if you have little or no light.

Unfortunately, that is not possible. NVR has to be away from camera location for reasons related to security (theft actually). However, tell me more about this secondary process. Is it some type of script that is executed at a certain interval and moves all data on the NVR to another location? What would be on the secondary receiving end? Another NVR? What about something like this? https://exacq.com/products/exacqvision_edge.html

And I bet your going to see the same bandwidth with motion only recording. You didn't anwser my question. Since Exacq does motion on the cameras does the server see bandwidth when the client is not open and there is no motion?

This simple turn off the client software and run a bandwidth meter. CPU usage tells us nothing.

Buel..... Exacq is does camera side motion detection so does that mean it only streams when there is motion?

That switch is not full POE on all ports.

So your saying Acti cameras ONLY stream when your live viewing or when motion is detected? Where is the motion detection being done camera side or server side? How did you test this?

What is your plan if the WAN connection goes down? What FPS are you looking for?

Dropcam is interesting BUT they are indoor only cameras with a 10ft USB cable for a power supply. So that system will be very limited. The right way to do this is to have the server onsite with the cameras. You will have issues if you don't.

Does Alnet use dual streaming? *Edit sorry I missed the fact that you have one stream setup for H.264 and the other to MJPEG. Good to know about the Alnet is a CPU killer.

I have not used Messoa but they my not like 2 NVRs pulling from the same stream. Arecont only can have one stream connected at a time.

They track every MAC address from the camera so they know everything about the camera. Buy from a authorized dealer and you will get full support.

Well I am hearing from the inside Axis is cracking down on unauthorized web dealers. What this means for support I don't know