I had posted this in another thread, but deleted and moved to here as it seems more appropriate:
A newbie with some knowledge and learning more everyday! I have had some variation of cameras for about 10 years and I use their respective app to view the cameras on mobile device.
I was kinda concerned about security and/or bandwidth drain, so my solution was to have the system connected to a switch and separate router (and thus a separate IP address subnet than other devices), in addition to a PC that is connected to that switch that is only used for watching the cameras. My thought was I could simply unplug the one Ethernet cable from the switch to the router if I was trying to watch Netflix or something and the cameras were slowing down the system or could unplug when doing something on another computer not connected to that switch.
I am now to the point where I don't want to invest in analog cameras to replace existing failing ones, so I have been looking at the latest IP cameras and that is how I stumbled across this site. There are some great contributors on this forum and a ton of information. One of particular concern is network security and the idea that the cameras should not have internet access and should instead be accessed via VPN. Some of those articles freaked me out!
After digesting it and looking at it more, I think I might be closer to a secure solution than I realized (but probably not secure enough for some on here). Below is my setup and it looks like my setup could be modified by simply obtaining a 3rd party viewer like Blue Iris, setting up a VPN (maybe switch a router to an ASUS), and block the cameras from internet access? Could I use the laptop Ethernet port to connect the cameras to and block internet access and then wifi of the laptop to access the internet or do I need two Ethernet ports?
We use VNC for work and I did a search and couldn’t find anything about VNC – in my mind VNC would be more secure than VPN as VNC only allows the ability to view and use the remote computer, whereas VPN joins the network? Thoughts?
A newbie with some knowledge and learning more everyday! I have had some variation of cameras for about 10 years and I use their respective app to view the cameras on mobile device.
I was kinda concerned about security and/or bandwidth drain, so my solution was to have the system connected to a switch and separate router (and thus a separate IP address subnet than other devices), in addition to a PC that is connected to that switch that is only used for watching the cameras. My thought was I could simply unplug the one Ethernet cable from the switch to the router if I was trying to watch Netflix or something and the cameras were slowing down the system or could unplug when doing something on another computer not connected to that switch.
I am now to the point where I don't want to invest in analog cameras to replace existing failing ones, so I have been looking at the latest IP cameras and that is how I stumbled across this site. There are some great contributors on this forum and a ton of information. One of particular concern is network security and the idea that the cameras should not have internet access and should instead be accessed via VPN. Some of those articles freaked me out!
After digesting it and looking at it more, I think I might be closer to a secure solution than I realized (but probably not secure enough for some on here). Below is my setup and it looks like my setup could be modified by simply obtaining a 3rd party viewer like Blue Iris, setting up a VPN (maybe switch a router to an ASUS), and block the cameras from internet access? Could I use the laptop Ethernet port to connect the cameras to and block internet access and then wifi of the laptop to access the internet or do I need two Ethernet ports?
We use VNC for work and I did a search and couldn’t find anything about VNC – in my mind VNC would be more secure than VPN as VNC only allows the ability to view and use the remote computer, whereas VPN joins the network? Thoughts?
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