I started many months ago not knowing 'jackc'hit'. All I wanted ...was to mount a camera in a pretty part of my property to create another window in the kitchen. Like most newbies, I bought unbranded RG59 cabled gear which did not work well for me. I read HIK was a big name... but that did not work well either. Someone mentioned, when asking for simplicity with quality - Dahua. That also did not go so well.
It appeared either the gear I bought was faulty*, my cabling ends, and/or my complete lack of understanding the interface were all conspiring to defeat me ...including rats that ate cable on the ground once. The outdoor connectors seemed to corrode easily in our rainy/humid conditions. I went from RG59 to Cat5 to Cat6a ...that did not seem to help much.
In the end - it appears the major culprit was lack of power within the various NVRs to make a solid handshake with the camera - over 500 feet away. I would get a good image, then lose it. If left on, it would magically reappear in the middle of the night to only disappear the next morning. Somehow I remembered someone mentioning a POE switch being added mid-cable to get really long range...
I ordered a 60watt, BV-tech, POE switch off Amazon and had full resolution in a matter of seconds. It has not dropped out in the last two days! Even thru local tornadic conditions.
'Finally got it' is not totally true ...I have a long way to go to get exactly what I think I want, but with a new LG gaming monitor and camera upgrade, I hope to get closer.
Jim
*once described here as 'Chinese Junk' ...as if there was another nation of origin?!
It appeared either the gear I bought was faulty*, my cabling ends, and/or my complete lack of understanding the interface were all conspiring to defeat me ...including rats that ate cable on the ground once. The outdoor connectors seemed to corrode easily in our rainy/humid conditions. I went from RG59 to Cat5 to Cat6a ...that did not seem to help much.
In the end - it appears the major culprit was lack of power within the various NVRs to make a solid handshake with the camera - over 500 feet away. I would get a good image, then lose it. If left on, it would magically reappear in the middle of the night to only disappear the next morning. Somehow I remembered someone mentioning a POE switch being added mid-cable to get really long range...
I ordered a 60watt, BV-tech, POE switch off Amazon and had full resolution in a matter of seconds. It has not dropped out in the last two days! Even thru local tornadic conditions.
'Finally got it' is not totally true ...I have a long way to go to get exactly what I think I want, but with a new LG gaming monitor and camera upgrade, I hope to get closer.
Jim
*once described here as 'Chinese Junk' ...as if there was another nation of origin?!