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The use of a switch has its cost. Every time you daisy chain another switch there is some time latency. Also traffic will cause some latency. I would suggest that you consider having one switch for all of your cameras and your B.I. computer. With one port of switch "S" (S=security) going to your WiFi Router switch. Then have another switch "O" carry all of your office network stuff, with one port going back to the router. Then either have a switch "M" for your T.V.s or wire them directly to two ports on the router. Try to segregate your data flow. As you can guess the security net will be a data hog. So try to keep data flow inside of the house away from the router. Reserve the switch on the router for data that needs to go out to the WWW. Now even though all devices will be on the same sub-net. The switches set up as I described above, will keep the data segregated. Now with this being said, I have to realize that POE has a greater distance restriction. If you have to use 2 or 3 POE switches. take each one back to master security switch. Dont daisy chain.
 
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The use of a switch has its cost. Every time you daisy chain another switch there is some time latency. Also traffic will cause some latency. I would suggest that you consider having one switch for all of your cameras and your B.I. computer. With one port of switch "S" (S=security) going to your WiFi Router switch. Then have another switch "O" carry all of your office network stuff, with one port going back to the router. Then either have a switch "M" for your T.V.s or wire them directly to two ports on the router. Try to segregate your data flow. As you can guess the security net will be a data hog. So try to keep data flow inside of the house away from the router. Reserve the switch on the router for data that needs to go out to the WWW. Now even though all devices will be on the same sub-net. The switches set up as I described above, will keep the data segregated. Now with this being said, I have to realize that POE has a greater distance restriction. If you have to use 2 or 3 POE switches. take each one back to master security switch. Dont daisy chain.
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There is no perceptible latency when daisy chaining switches...that is the entire point of networking and one of the top benefits of ip cameras.
 
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I remember back in about 2005 or so when I was taking some Cisco classes. That the professor was telling us that there was a time latency as switches were daisy chained or stacked if you prefer. Maybe that was an issue back in the day and with things getting faster this is not as much of an issue. But also segmenting network with putting certain data on different switches will help with through put.
 
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Paulx said:
I remember back in about 2005 or so when I was taking some Cisco classes. That the professor was telling us that there was a time latency as switches were daisy chained or stacked if you prefer. Maybe that was an issue back in the day and with things getting faster this is not as much of an issue. But also segmenting network with putting certain data on different switches will help with through put.
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That's a hundred years ago in technology years. ;)
 
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