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I purchased a second NIC card for my current PC in anticipation of using my current PC for BI. I ended up buying a Dell 7040 locally as it was such a good deal and it already had a second NIC card in it, so I think I will be following your topology above. This seems like a great way to go. Cheers.

Good point. I like the efficiency and ease of management of one switch but I would be out of luck if it went down. Turn-around to get a new one would like be a week at best given where I live, so it is something to consider. I am home-running all of my cables to a central location in the...

poor man's VLAN.... I like it!. Can we call it pmVLAN going forward? lol.

Yes, I was going to caveat that I should take his information with grain of salt. Ubiquiti obviously didn't pay him enough in the video I watched to tout them that hard... You make a great point about additional traffic through the switch, mirroring what holbs was eluding to. I think the switch...

I appreciate the input! Getting a NIC card is fairly cheap so I might get one for the fun of it. I am not a network engineer so I am sure I would be in the same boat as you unless someone had already laid out the foundation for me online. From one video I watched, the guy from "The Hookup" on...

This is a huge help. I appreciate you providing these diagrams. This definitely gives me some options to play with depending on how ambitious I feel;)

Thanks guys for the responses. I guess I am weighing the pros and cons of each approach. There are a million ways to skin a cat. Picking cams was easy but figuring out the best approach for networking has been a challenge. I got my cameras yesterday so I think I will play around with the switch...

I am currently setting up a camera system which will end up being approximately 12 cameras total (4 on the way now). I just set up my ubiquiti network with USG and 8 port poe switch, so I am able to create VLANs to make things secure, etc. I will need to get another larger switch and may deploy...

I hadn't thought too much about the alerts available through BI. This sounds incredibly power and look forward to playing around with this for my property. We recently moved into a rancher on a corner lot where anyone can easily access the front and back yard. The house also has 4 exterior doors...

Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone. It's pretty amazing, I went from potentially buying 2 reolink cameras to getting a costco set to buying a hikvision complete set to individual cams with separate NVR and finally settled on individual dahua cams with BI, in a matter of 2 months. I am happy I...

I don't even have cams yet and it's already a full time hobby!

Hi everyone!, I just wanted to stop in a say a brief thank-you to everyone on the forum for helping me navigate through the sometimes confusing world of IP Cams. This has been a tremendous resource and I appreciate the work those have done and are doing to help the less informed/ignorant. I...