oh wow, I've never fully understood why some mboards have 2 net ports until now. The problem i see with this approach is i would only being able to access the camera's gui's from the BI computer, correct? The problem has to be the way in which i'm currently running since when viewing the live feed in the camera gui it also has the same problem. cpu usage is under control at the moment. All but a couple cameras I could easily take the router out of the equation, a couple go through various switches before reaching the router, the others all go to a large POI switch which could be removed from the router and plugged directly into the BI pc. I have a netgear nighthawk router, everything is hard wired... it does have some setting for vlan but this is getting into uncharted territory for me. Thanks for all the info... btw, did you see my post earlier about your settings for the one camera?
Yeah, if you are seeing the problem live, then it is a bandwidth issue in your setup and likely all of them passing thru the router.
For $15ish dollars you can buy another Ethernet port if you don't have two on your computer and install it. And then connect all the cameras to that port.
You can then view and access the BI computer and camera GUI thru remote desktop on any other device in your house. I can pull it up on my phone. And then with OpenVPN, you can access the camera GUI anywhere.
I don't recall seeing the earlier post, let me go up and look.