I'll start by saying that I am a complete noob to both Blue Iris and networking.
Here is my current set up:
Blue Iris running on a dedicated desktop with an i5-8500 and 8g RAM
1 Dahua T5442T-ZE and 1 Hikvision 2087G2-LU
Ubiquiti UDM and APs; cameras and BI PC are through a Ubiquiti mangaged...