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The house is currently wired for some older alarm system, but I don't think it's every single point of entry How do people find the ring monitoring service?

I see a lot of older threads in this forum recommending the ring alarm system. For purely alarm (not cam) is that still the current recommendation? What about the commercial products like ADT, Brink, etc Interested to hear the pros/cons Thanks

Where would I house the connectors? Inside the wall? That would mean a bigger hole?

I can mount cameras to soffit, but for a 2 story house will be way above height for identification purposes, so was thinking of mounting lower on vinyl Saw a bunch of threads here about options and saw mounting blocks being recommended like this...

Thank you for the replies - yes read the the cliff notes. extremely helpful I think you are right I will need Camera at back corners opposite D/G (and get rid of E?) or what you're saying is 2 on each corner for total of 8? (this would make wiring runs easier for sure) What do you think about...

New to this forum and am very impressed at the amount of information here.. you guys are awesome. I wanted to see if you had any recommendations for planned setup. Setup will be BI PC with Cisco Switch and cat6 drops to all locations. planning on 24/7 recording The house is 2 level + basement...

Noticed an issue with PC coming back from sleep mode taking a while to get IP Fixed thanks to @reflection On the switch port connected to your PC, add "spanning-tree portfast". If it's a trunk port, do "spanning-tree portfast trunk" NOTE: do not do this for any ports connecting switch to...

Thank you again to @reflection for all of your guidance 1. Make sure your AP is in autonomous mode - this is so your WAP can run off the switch without a cisco controller. First step is to find the correct autonomous image for your WAP - it has k9w7 in it (k9w8 is the lightweight firmware...

For anyone trying to configure the same, here are some screenshots After you download the realtek diagnostic utility, create two corresponding VLANS (click add, give same VLAN ID, wait a few sec for it to connect, it will auto-generate MAC address) You will see two "virtual" network adapters...

Thanks, that seemed to do it. The BI PC has a realtek NIC, it was rather tricky to figure out VLAN as it wasn't an option in the adapter settings -> properties -> advanced Found this: Note: Multiple VLAN Operation on Realtek RTL8111D NIC (& Others) Turns out you need to download Realtek...

Thanks @reflection Plan for ports 1-12 to be home_network and 13-24 cam_network I added interfaces 1-12 to one vlan (vlan 2) and 13-24 to another (vlan 4) By setting ip of the home_network vlan to 192.168.29.2 and the cam_network to 192.168.1.1 I'm able to access internet from vlan 2. I can...

In case anyone was in the same boat, it seems the key to get it working is to add the ports you want to the vlan and set a static ip address for the computers on the vlan you want to access the switch ! create VLAN 2 in vlan database #configure terminal vlan 2 name VLAN_2 end ! ensure VLAN 2...

I have a Cisco 2960S POE 24 port switch. The idea is to use it for home security cameras with POE. It is my first time using Cisco CLI so need a bit of help. The current wire path is: Internet Service Provider => Asus Router (192.168.29.1) => 2960S ==> 2pcs , one desktop and one dedicated BI...