wiring and installing cameras

[Guest]

Hi,

I'm new to these forums, while I don't have any problems with the networking aspect of i.p cameras I'm looking for info on how to actually physically install the cameras and connect them to a power source.

For example, I'd to install an outdoor ip camera facing my front door outside my house. Obviously I would go for a weatherproof camera but how do I the get power from the electrical socket inside my house to outside? Unfortunately I'm not an electrician but I'm willing to learn. I already have a Gadspot W10, when I tried connecting a dc extension cable to the power adapter it wouldn't function properly.

Here in the UK, there are cctv everywhere, they appear to have some thick weatherproof cabling which both the power cable and video/lan cables go inside. If anyone has any info on how to get started it would very much be appreciated.

[MainFragger]

Sounds like you might need to look into some power over the ethernet options. I would contact the Manf. of the camera and ask them if their cameras support Power over Ethernet, and if so, what solutions are available. Sometimes its built in, other times you have to have a device that converts your ethernet and power connector to provide power over one ethernet cable, and then another device at the other end to split it back out. But the voltages have to be able to match your Netcams requirements for AC voltage and Amperage. Hope this helps...
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[electric-eye]

Following the topic of this thread....I had a question.

I just replaced the hubs in my network with switches. The framerates from my mix of DCS 900's and 950's increased dramatically on the LAN side. I understand that switches basically route packets directly to the intended device...creating basically a "private one on one connection" with the two devices, rather than broadcasting the packets to every device on the network and thereby redudcing the speed of data transmission due to collisions....Right?

IF this is true does this apply to remote viewing over the internet?" All thing being ideal... Should I expect to see increased frame rates when viewing remotely?

I have 5 network cams and three pcs connected by switches to a router/switch combo....Seems to me I should see an increase in framerates while viewing over the net when watching multiple cams like with IP viewlite. Should I see an inrease in frame rate?

EE

[IPCCTV]

The switch does behave as you said. If you are going over the internet you need to remember that the limiting factor on frame rate will probably be your upstream transfer rate. As such you may see no improvement at all.

As well as changing hubs for switches, try to figure out what talks to what on the network and try to set these devices to be on the same switch. If you have a camera that you are mainly interested in viewing over the net, try to be sure this is as close (hop wise) as possible to the outside world. Download speeds are much faster than upload speeds. Hope this helps.
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[Gary]

Getting power to a camera isn't always easy. To get around this problem I recently bought a Netgear FS108P switch.

This has eight network ports, of which four support the 802.3af 'Power Over Ethernet' standard.

What this does is to supply 48vDC along unused wires in the network cable which are then split-off at the other end (either by the device itself or an adapter) to provide whatever DC voltage the camera needs to power it.

I'm currently running two cameras this way and expect to make use of the remaining two powered ports in due course.

Cheers
Gary

[raj_h3art17]

i have dlink DCS 2102 ip internet cameras in different places now i want to record all Cameras in one place so please tell how to use it . thnks