Noob here

[wittaj]

^That would be ideal!!!!!

It just saves a lot of issues and frustrations.

 

[samplenhold]

The whole point of using two NICs is to isolate the cameras on a separate LAN from all of the other home traffic, keeping the camera LAN from having a physical connection to your ISP router/modem. See the diagrams below. How you accomplish that is totally up to you.

 

[bbatman99]

^That would be ideal!!!!!

It just saves a lot of issues and frustrations.

Hey thanks for the office drop idea and also letting me bounce ideas off you. I think that is 100% the play. Isolated network which means it's secure and an added bonus that my regular network would never get bogged down with camera traffic.

 

[bbatman99]

All my research, questions, answers, and reading led me to Dahua OEM, EmpireTech/Andy and Blue Iris.

I have zero complaints and gladly renewed my tech support which is due again and will be renewed again.

Blue Iris at default, works great, for those who want a higher level of performance there are too many options to name.

I came to the same conclusion. I just placed an order for all the camera hardware. I also ordered a refurbished HP ProDesk I5-8500 computer to run my 6 new camera's with Blue Iris with a WD Purple 8TB drive. The amount of information here is incredible and I've learned a ton thanks to you guys. I appreciate all the help.

 

[looney2ns]

Wired connection is always better than WiFI.
Anytime you can avoid it, pull a cable instead of depending on Wifi.