Please help.. howb to improve quality?

[alesha86]

I bought o house .. and recently checked and find quality very bad.. black and white..
If somebody could help me ..identified what should I do to improve .. also looks like card missing in DVR..
Anybody know.. shuld I get new dvr or monitor?
Or cameras ?
cause I am new to this..

 

[biggen]

There may be some quality settings in the DVR menu. But... I'd tear out all the cameras and throw them and the DVR in the trash and start over. Its a very old system.

I'd guess you probably can't even use the existing Cat5 wiring that is running to those cameras since its probably some proprietary wiring for just those cameras. A lot of those "DVR packages" don't use standard networking wiring.

 

[alesha86]

What do you mean I can't use cat 5 cables? Does new cameras using other cables standard?
So should I buy new cameras , wires and dvr?

 

[SouthernYankee]

That cable is only 6 strand not eight strand as ethernet cable. It is also corroded.
You can use the old cable as a guide to help pull new cable.
Drop the DVR and the cameras in the garage can.
start planning on a new system.

Please read the IP Cam Talk Cliff Notes and other items in the IP Cam Talk Wiki. (read on a real computer, not a phone). The wiki is in the blue bar at the top of the page.


Read,study,plan before spending money ..... plan plan plan
Doing it right the first time will save you money.
Test do not guess

 

[wittaj]

+1 on getting a whole new system. Read the Cliff notes.

 

[alesha86]

Thank you very much