Gentlemen,
Thank you for your kind and helpful replies.
Dasstrum and Tony, I realize $40 per hour is a great rate. No argument there at all! If we could afford it, we would be willing to pay $100 per hour because I believe a good network engineer is worth nothing less than that per hour. We are presently barely keeping our head above water financially, and that is why we were hoping we could trouble shoot this with just a little bit of help. Unfortunately, we put every last cent into launching a bee pollination company this year. Made some mistakes and now hoping to rent our honeybee colonies in Feb 2019 and hopefully recoup some of our expenses [haven't made even one cent yet]. So by March/April we are hoping to have more finances to service our security system.
We have been cutting and splitting and selling firewood, trying to make ends meet [see pic].
This security system was working flawlessly for a couple of years. But then, like I said, first the CPU died, then the motherboard. So I have been without a working security system for some time.
After the
BI update, no cameras came on line. Then, after replacing the router, still, no cameras working.
I need a working security system for a variety of reasons. We live in a remote area, and we need to be able to monitor various parts of the property. One concern is the sheep. We have had coyotes take a number of our sheep last year. I need to monitor the property and sheep, especially now that our ewes are beginning to have lambs. The good news, is by March or April, I hope to be able to sell some of our sheep and then I can afford to spend more money on our security set up. Last, we are somewhat near to Stockton, CA. A very violent, crime ridden city. I would like to have the luxury of having a working security system for the personal safety of my family.
Second, when we first moved here, two weeks after moving in, I found professional breaking and entering
tools 10-12 feet from the AG building. These thieves were not your local high school kids...these were professional thieves that knew exactly what they were doing. This was 5 years ago.
We have nothing of value to attract professional thieves, but they sure checked our place out. Within one week I had installed a Lorex system from Costco, then, after doing lots of reading, built a security system and installed
Blue Iris.
So, that is our situation.
I changed routers because I had purchased the ASUS TM-AC1900 two years ago when they had a killer deal. Recently, our ASUS RT-56-U started dropping signals and even would not send the signal through the CAT 6 we buried/installed 5 years ago. I originally intended to proceed with the flash process to transform our TM-AC1900 to RT-AC68U. But the more I read, the more I realized it was far above my knowledge and experience level.
So basically, the ASUS TM-AC1900 is the only router I have to work with that would meet our needs.
Ok, a number of you feel it is the router with the new/changed IP addresses.
How can we determine if this is the cause?
Not sure about the subnet question nor the dhcp reservation.
But I sure am willing to learn and I am a super fast and good learner.
Soar
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