Newb POE switch questions

[Ball Sac]

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If i bought 2 of these switches to run with BI

Amazon.com: TP-Link 8-Port Fast Ethernet PoE Desktop Switch with 4-PoE Ports (TL-SF1008P): Electronics

Say i had the two switches in remote locations of the house with 4 cameras wired to each. Then both switches wired to my office to router. Would i need the 10/100M or the gigabit model?

If I wanted to add another 4 cameras down the road for a total of 12 can i buy a third switch & add it in?

Also, is there a limit on how many switches you can have on a home network?

 

[Ball Sac]

To add if it matters, 6 cameras will be the IPC-HDW5231R-Z & others at this time older 720p camera from logitech alert system

Would this be a better switch?
Amazon.com: NETGEAR 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch with 4-Port PoE (GS308P-100NAS): Computers & Accessories

 

[nayr]

just 4 PoE 1080p cameras 100Mbit is adequate; with just 4 Starlight Turrets @ MaxFPS/Bitrate will be ~40Mbit, well within the 100Mbit ceiling.. Power is also within the ceiling, as you have 14W per port and the starlights take ~9W max.

If you were to chain these switches together or run non-surveillance gear off them (such as plugging in a smart TV to internet) then you might consider GigE uplinks.. but if they are all going to a central trunk switch thats GigE (your router) then it'll work as you described it.

 

[fenderman]

for a few more bux you can get a managed gigabit switch Amazon.com: ZyXEL 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Web Managed PoE Switch with 60 Watt Budget [GS1200-5HP]: Computers & Accessories

 

[Ball Sac]

Thank you nayr & fender for your reply. A few bucks is nothing when i want to buy it right the first time. What is the benefit going with the managed switch?

 

[nayr]

managed switches usually let you configure virtual lan's, this lets you run multiple isolated networks all on the same physical switching system.

among other things, but thats the primary drive for the ability to configure anything on em.. you usually need a full network thats vlan capable and a router too unless your doing something very basic.

 

[Ball Sac]

Thank you nayr
So something like partitions on a hard drive? Would your recommend the managed for the V-lans? I just read this
How Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) Work - dummies
and flew over my head so fast maybe im biting off more than i can chew here.
I will do more reading on it

 

[j4co]

If you have multiple vlan's the issue will be the routing between them in general.
Not many customer routers can do that.

If you want secure access also to the cameras from mobile phones etc. Some solution like pfsense firewall might be a solution. That could do multiple vlans, vpn's and a lot more.
But it comes with a bit of a learning curve also.