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Ethernet over telephone cable

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We have a customer that wants more cameras in their horse barn. There are currently 6 Panasonic BL-C1a's in the barn right now. All connect to a switch in the barn and feed back to a telco junction box on the outside. From there, the ethernet signal passes over underground telephone cable to another barn, then across another telephone cable to the house where the router is located. My question is, has anybody had any luck pushing 14 IP cams at 640x480 over telephone cable? BTW, it is a thick bundle of telephone wire they use for their PBX system.

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From your posting, it's hard to tell if you mean that the configuration you are describing works, or is that the way you want it to work?

 

Telephone cable is simply not designed to carry Ethernet communication directly, unless it is rated CAT5 or better. In like situations with phone cable available, I've used point to point DSL extenders, like this, http://netsys-direct.com/proddetail.php?prod=NV-600EKIT

 

Depending on the distance, these can carry up to full speed 100 Meg connections.

 

With 14 MJPEG only cams, if you are running at their full frame rate each (7.5 FPS), you are looking at a ~50 Meg stream. Depending on the server you are using, that could be getting into a danger zone, please tell us more about the setup.

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