How much is the typical duties/custom charge by DHL for one of these cameras shipped from Andy? I have ordered from AliExpress before, but never had to pay a charge (DHL was not the deliverer)
If in the USA, no customs charge (I think the rule is < $800 or something, though I'm sure that is an oversimplification). But you have not specified which country you are in.
Shipping companies such as DHL may collect the customs fee, but it is governments that charge it in the first place.
With a managed switch you can seperate traffic by the use of vlans. This has advantages and disadvantages.
Advantage: less riks that from the internet someone could misuse the camera (one of the largest denail of service attack was with cameras with weak sequrity that people did not have any protection in between it an the net.
Disadvantage: you should have a l3 routing device in your network somyou can reach the camera from a pc, tablet or whatever which are in the non camera vlan. This can be an option in the router from the ISP already, or you can use a seperate router or firewall for example.
Access from outside to camera's should be done by a vpn service and never a port foreward as the sequrity of a camera or nvr is almost for all units much to weak.
How do you attach these to eves without some sort of bracket?no brackets are even remotely needed; unless your running conduit.. then mebe the round junction box
The bandwidth is used only if you have multiple vlans through a cable.So the managed vs unmanaged has nothing to do with preventing other devices on the network being adversely affected by all the bandwidth being used by the camera feed data? It's more a privacy and security implication?
Very helpful - many thanks.The bandwidth is used only if you have multiple vlans through a cable.
But if your setup is not to large the typical ISP device connects to a switch (POE type perhaps) and there you connect all your devices.
Bandwidth on a switch should not be a limit, as every port should be handled up to line rate. Camera's cpmmunicate only to NVR port, and no other port (might not be true as they could phone home and you would want access from PC/tablet etc.)
If your setup contains of multiple switches and you have camera/nvr devices connected to these multiple switches where also normal devices are on, you will share the bandwidth. (as on the 1 gigabit Ethernet link where 2 or more vlans go over)
But that is not really an issue for most people, as a camera stream would be max 10-20 mbps, but most people run them lower, lets say 6 mbps.
Gigabit Ethernet is 1000 mbps. so you could run many ip camera streams over it without issues normally.