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Windows implements NTP in a screwy way. Your bets bet by far is to install a dedicated NTP server package like Meinberg. Meinberg Software-Download

tick.usno.navy.mil and tock.usno.navy.mil are good choices as well. Str2 synced off of the Navy master clock.

Yes, do it, yesterday. It's vastly superior in every way. The only caveat is: if you do ever decide to utilize their TV stuff, you'll need to find an Ethernet / MOCA bridge and stick that into your network topology (to get the guides, VOD and such to work).

You want to avoid any of the commonly used ports. 443 is standard https. Pick something way up in the 40,000s IMO. Something odd that isn't used by anything else. Again, check your firewall rules. If possible, post a screenshot of that page.

Check your firewall rules to ensure that traffic is allowed between those two subnets (in both directions). Often the default is to treat a VPN subnet like a sandbox, and if that's the case, unless you explicitly allow the traffic nothing will ever talk to each other. Also consider changing...

Best practice IMO is to run BI on its own dedicated box.

Like I said, I'm not going to argue with you. If you feel that you have to be right, then feel that you're right. I recommend what I recommend.

Yes, being a network engineer I wouldn't know anything about saturating pipelines or network design. I'm not going to argue with you. We're clearly coming at this from two different perspectives. I just do not utilize consumer grade appliances - ever. I'm well aware that they exist; I just...

Evidently we define loud differently. When we consider that the bandwidth we'd expect to see from a 10MP camera is about 7.2Mbps, giving it a 100Mbps pipe is more than sufficient. Giving it 1000Mbps is ridiculous in the extreme. I have 8 cams flowing through a single gigabit fiber line and it...

You get what you pay for. Would you rather have a few years old used Benz or a new Kia? I'll leave it at that. :-)

CISCO 3560 24P WS-C3560-24PS-S 24 Ethernet 10/100 ports Catalyst Switch PoE | eBay Just saying ...

6 of my cams stream H265. I do direct to disk with no hardware coding selected. Works just fine.

"I am planning on possibly a WD Purple but I'm not sure yet. I also think between 4 to 8TB" I use a 4TB Purple for 8 cams, six of which are pushing H265. 6 @ 1080 / 15fps / H265 and 2 @ 720 / 15fps / H264. I can get between three and four weeks of retention out of that one (I offload to a NAS...

Understood. You said above that you were seeing WD Purple 4TB for $204. $139 beats $204 all day long

You need to be looking elsewhere for that drive - Amazon has them for $139.00 for 4TB all day long

I do this for a living, and - I'm being honest here - you are way overthinking this. The degree of EMI you could possibly expect to encounter is trivial. It's wasted money to no real beneficial end. That having been said, if you're determined to do this: simply terminate the shielded run into...

Ideally, Cat6 will cross 110V AC perpendicular, but I think that you're probably overestimating the amount of interference that you can expect. You indicated that you intend to run conduit - EMT or PVC? I ask because if you feel that you just have to deal with the EMI, run it in EMT and ground...

To be frank, that budget is going to preclude anything new & rack mounted I had in mind to suggest. Passmark on your existing CPUs is 7971. E3's aren't going to buy you much in that regard since they are all UP and even the v6's are posting Passmarks in the 11,000 range. IMO you'll need a stout...

There are essentially two ways to contact a server which is internal to your network from the internet - you can either implement VPN or you can poke holes in your firewall. Port forwarding is poking holes. While you can (to some degree) qualify who is allowed to pass through those holes...

I'm assuming that this box is rack mounted and you'll want to replace it with another rack mount. 1) How many rack U's can you allocate to the box, and; 2) what's your proposed budget max?

That's the tradeoff with cheaper wireless, I guess. Pay less & looks like you get less. Judging from the hordes of angry users still up in arms about it, I'm guessing nobody has found a workaround. About the only thing that I can think of -and it's a sh*tty option - is to configure OpenVPN to...

That's not my setup. You asked for a basic drawing. Mine comprises 17 different vlans located on 5 different switches and a 5520 wireless fabric routing through a 2901 via fiber uplinks / outpath through a Sophos UTM. I wasn't about to draw all of that out. Asking honestly - what is the...

Assuming they are all located on the same VLAN, I would block the entire VLAN from accessing the internet, but short answer, IMO yes.

Google "Straight Talk Wireless blocking VPN" - people have been complaining about them for years over this issue. re: OpenVPN on Android - you imported and applied the .ovpn file to the device?

Let me know in a year or two the point to which it has progressed (which it will ... :) ) I'm up to a 20U rack, 24 port patch, 12 port patch, Cisco 3560G-48 and 3560G-24P (in the rack, there are more of them elsewhere ... ), Cisco IAD2431-1T1E1, Cisco 7975's and 7921's throughout the house...

Sandboxing by definition will require more than one NIC. His question was whether or not he needed a second NIC on his Blueiris machine, and the answer to that is no. Normal implementation with respect to this scenario: Cameras and server are all within the same VLAN on a separate switch. That...

Sandboxing is a product of routing / firewall rules. They define, or in this case limit, what traffic is allowed to pass where and which hosts / group of hosts (VLAN) are allowed to talk to other VLANs. NICs are dumb. VLANs are normally implemented on managed switches. If you propose to route...

I typically sandbox the cameras and server within their own vlan, which is a switching concept. You shouldn't need a second nic for that.

Again, running shielded cable without a leak path to ground can create noise problems that otherwise wouldn't exist with normal CMR. Just be aware of that.

LOL, this is how it began for me. Before you know it you'll be asking yourself "where would a rack fit in my house?" :-)