Lost in lala land!

[nayr]

might not hurt to wrap some aluminum tape around that pipe where it passes those bundles of high voltage wires, or cut it up higher and jog it over.. when one of your mic's has a weird hiss every time the washing machine is on you'll wish yeh had

 

[Hound Dog 911]

I figured something is better than nothing. When you guys said the cat 6a was overkill, man were you right. Lol I'll be doing the connections in the attic and pushing out the hole to the cameras. Screw doing that on a ladder.

 

[Hound Dog 911]

might not hurt to wrap some aluminum tape around that pipe where it passes those bundles of high voltage wires, or cut it up higher and jog it over.. when one of your mic's has a weird hiss every time the washing machine is on you'll wish yeh had

Thank you man. I'm going to clean things up. Before I run cable.

 

[randytsuch]

I figured something is better than nothing. When you guys said the cat 6a was overkill, man were you right. Lol I'll be doing the connections in the attic and pushing out the hole to the cameras. Screw doing that on a ladder.

I've only made a couple on a ladder, I avoid if at all possible. But it does get easier too. BTW, I premark one side on both pieces ahead of time with a sharpie, so I know where to start and how to orient without figuring it out every time.

 

[Hound Dog 911]

I was just watching videos for tips. Will try your suggestion amongst some others.

 

[Hound Dog 911]

My cameras are sitting 2 hours away. They arrived there yesterday. DHL transfers it to the post office so they will be here tomorrow supposedly. Still impressed with the shipping time. Order stuff from the west coast that takes longer to get here.

 

[Hound Dog 911]

Dumb question. I made a jumper network cable that runs from the switch to the wireless router without any issues. Running a network cable from the switch to the computer BI will run on and I messed up twice now. What termination color sequence should I be using for this?

 

[fenderman]

Dumb question. I made a jumper network cable that runs from the switch to the wireless router without any issues. Running a network cable from the switch to the computer BI will run on and I messed up twice now. What termination color sequence should I be using for this?

568B you must use 568 for all cables ...

 

[Hound Dog 911]

Thank you!

 

[fenderman]

Thank you!

Redo the other cable...You are likely dropping packets...It's more noticeable on longer runs

 

[Hound Dog 911]

I think I have it done correctly. The problem was how I had my Internet, wireless router, and how Windows 10 was picking up the network. Plugged everything in correctly and the BI system found the managed switch correctly, would operate correctly, and would connect to the Internet correctly.

I had the cable modem plugged directly into the switch. It didn't like that. I plugged the cable modem into the wireless router and back into the switch and rebooted everything. Now works.

 

[Hound Dog 911]

Cameras appear lost in lala land. They arrived in DC on Monday or at least a shipping label was created. DHL says they do not have them. Stay tuned. Lol

 

[Hound Dog 911]

They showed up at my local post office. Yeah! Probably delivered tomorrow.

 

[Hound Dog 911]

Cameras made it to the house. Haven't opened them up yet. Sitting at a bar gambling. Can't wait to hook one up.

 

[Hound Dog 911]

Question. I have a poe switch. Do I need anything else for the camera to start up? Injector, etc? Tried two different cameras and neither appears to want to boot up. Thanks for any guidance.

 

[Camit]

Question. I have a poe switch. Do I need anything else for the camera to start up? Injector, etc? Tried two different cameras and neither appears to want to boot up. Thanks for any guidance.

If the switch is poe you don't need anything else just make sure your plugging the camera into a poe port and not a Standard port

 

[Hound Dog 911]

Tried every port. Software won't detect the camera. The switch isn't detecting the camera. Tested the cable and it passed just fine. I will tinker more later. Have errands to run. Will try a different cable when I get home.

 

[Camit]

Tried every port. Software won't detect the camera. The switch isn't detecting the camera. Tested the cable and it passed just fine. I will tinker more later. Have errands to run. Will try a different cable when I get home.

Try to power camera with the v12 cord.. also most poe routers will have two lights one for power and one for data

 

[fenderman]

Tried every port. Software won't detect the camera. The switch isn't detecting the camera. Tested the cable and it passed just fine. I will tinker more later. Have errands to run. Will try a different cable when I get home.

Use a known premade good cable..the cheap cable testers are close to worthless.

 

[tangent]

I'm quoting myself from another thread below, many computers have the ability to do more advanced tests on cables expand to see the full quote.

The 2 most common mistakes people make when terminating cables are putting the wires in the wrong order which can occur as they push the plug on and not pushing the plug on far enough resulting in a poor connection.

Punch downs are harder to screw up, consider punching down each end of the cable and then using pre-made patch cables.

I agree it looks like one of the pictures may be wrong. When I was a kid, my dad got a partial spool of cat5 with NO color markings on the white wires free. That teaches you to terminate cable properly real quick. We cant see the side to see if the wires are in far enough. To take better pictures, put your camera in macro mode and add an external light source. If you make the same mistake on both ends of a cable, you'll pass a basic continuity test but it won't work for shit.

Best case scenario, you keep making the same mistakes over and over as you re-terminate the cable. Worst case, you bent the cable too much or pulled on it too hard and actually damaged the cable during installation.

Most computers these days can perform some fancier tests on cables to identify faults. Often you just have to find the software from the NIC mfg (eg Intel, RealTek, etc) because it may not be installed by default.

Attached is a screenshot of the RealTek utility showing cable status. It shows the status of each twisted pair. In this image one end of the cable is disconnected. If the cable is connected on both ends and working it should show normal and the same length for each pair. Differing lengths or short generally mean cable damage. These software tools are doing tdr on your cable.