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    New camera wiring problem - hope someone can help!

    Just to close out this thread - turns out I'd got one end of the cable's wiring backwards. What puzzles me is how a cable tester gave me green lights on all eight wires with my having got it so wrong! Anyway, much happier to have realised I just made a stupid mistake than to replace the entire...
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    New camera wiring problem - hope someone can help!

    That was my thinking - Same problem after re-seating the patch panel wires so I'll do the end plug tomorrow (very late in the UK now) - but I wonder how unusual it is for new cable to arrive with faults? I installed it myself so I know it wasn't abused in the process. I've got a 100 metres of...
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    New camera wiring problem - hope someone can help!

    As I said I tested that theory by testing the camera with a cable that is 25m long instead of the less than 15m that is the actual length of the run. I've realised since that my PoE switch ( DGS-1210-08P) has a cable testing section. That's reporting faults with the cable that's problematic but...
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    New camera wiring problem - hope someone can help!

    So I've just bought three reolink cameras and have just run cable for the first camera. I've run a cable from my PoE switch to a patch panel and then through my attic (bungalow) to nearby my front door. My cable tester shows that all eight wires are 'green' and therefore supposedly wired...
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    Pfsense wins awards

    I'm in the UK - I've been using pfsense for the last few months since we switched to 500Mb up down FTTH - the WAN is PPPoE. I gather from watching/reading a load of pfsense tutorials that most USA based ISPs use DHCP. Tom Lawrence even goes so far as to state that if you connect via PPPoE he's...
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    Advice on using old PC as dedicated NAS for security cameras

    Thanks bbunge. That's really helpful real world feedback. While I currently only have 2 cameras the plan is to eventually have 3 or 4, so the fact that you have 5 at a 1080p is very reassuring :) I'll also be sure to check out Zoneminder!
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    Advice on using old PC as dedicated NAS for security cameras

    For sure if that was all it was doing, but apart from media server duties and running the *arrs it will also be doing nextcloud, game server duties and running a VM or two. Adding anything to that which is also running 24/7 might be a stretch - I think it'll cope but not sure it'll cope...
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    Solved:RT-AC68P Assigning Static IP's within DHCP Range

    If you mean one that does it for you I'd love to know the answer too! I recently got a Unifi 6 Pro AP and there's a topology chart that shows you what's connected to the AP and then you can drill down per device to see which Wifi SSID or VLAN it's connected to. It's the only Ubiquiti / Unifi...
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    Solved:RT-AC68P Assigning Static IP's within DHCP Range

    What wouterv says re Static vs Manual assignment is interesting, but it maybe a terminology specific to Asus? For what it's worth my understanding is the reverse. A static mapping is made on the DHCP server, in my case pfsense. If I want to assign a static mapping to a device that's been...
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    VLAN Config Query using pfSense and Unifi

    That's what I was driving at but said a hell of a lot more succinctly !! :)
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    VLAN Config Query using pfSense and Unifi

    This is more of a question than a suggestion, to check my own understanding, but would it not work to just have pfsense go to a single managed switch, preferably via a LAGG, and split off from there to the unmanaged switches? I mean in the sense that each unmanaged switch or group of unmanaged...
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    Advice on using old PC as dedicated NAS for security cameras

    We got a couple of PoE cameras recently and while it'll be a few weeks before I can run the ethernet cable, I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to set them up. Previously I'd planned to hook these up to my current Unraid server using a docker such as Shinobi, but some videos I've watched...
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    Confused about subnets and vlans

    There's quite enough complexity inherent in any recording session to make me want to keep everything else as simple as possible believe me. However the 'KISS' principle can be applied in several ways: There's the simplicity of the network infrastructure and the practical simplicity of how it...
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    Confused about subnets and vlans

    After doing more reading on what my Zyxel switch can do I'm wondering on the practicalities of using MAC based VLANs for the audio network. We only have three desktop PCs that are ever likely to be used for audio recording/monitoring and each has two NICs. What I like about this idea is that for...
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    INFO: Word of warning about Vodafone UK FTTH/FTTP

    I've edited out the faulty Openreach VLAN info - though that is what was copied and pasted into the SMS I got irrelevently. Of course I didn't really expect the adviser to know what a VLAN was, not 100% sure I do really! There's no question that if you've got the money to spare then paying the...
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