Good NON-Wireless 10/100/1000 Gigabit Router?
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Hi Chust,
You probably don't need a router if it is just for the IP cams and a NVR or PC. If you manually set the IP's of the cameras and NVR/PC then you can probably get by with a gigabit switch.
My personal setup is 7x Cameras powered all over Ethernet connected to a POE injector then connected to a TP-Link TL-SG1024DE smart switch. It services my house for pretty much everything and has some cool abilities like packet monitoring, which I recently found very handy when identifying a camera pumping out a bunch of bad packets into my network, slowing everything down. Along with VLAN capabilities which allow me to isolate my cameras from the rest of the network and create a trunk port for my NVR to connect to the rest of the network. This allows me to have everything connected while still having them treated as individual networks.
If I were to buy everything over, the only thing I would change would be the switch. I would get a Netgear ProSafe GS110TP (8 ports) the series comes in 8, 16, 24, 32 and 48 ports depending on your needs. Has VLAN, port monitoring, but the 8 port model has POE on every port, eliminating the need for a port injector.
The only real downside to using a switch over a router is you don't have a NAT firewall (which if your connecting to a modem, the modem probably has that) and it does not have DHCP (again, a modem would take care of this, or just set static IP addresses), which if your goal is to just make everything talk to each other, a switch is a good option over a router.
Hope this helps guide you a little.
Kind regards,
Josh
You probably don't need a router if it is just for the IP cams and a NVR or PC. If you manually set the IP's of the cameras and NVR/PC then you can probably get by with a gigabit switch.
My personal setup is 7x Cameras powered all over Ethernet connected to a POE injector then connected to a TP-Link TL-SG1024DE smart switch. It services my house for pretty much everything and has some cool abilities like packet monitoring, which I recently found very handy when identifying a camera pumping out a bunch of bad packets into my network, slowing everything down. Along with VLAN capabilities which allow me to isolate my cameras from the rest of the network and create a trunk port for my NVR to connect to the rest of the network. This allows me to have everything connected while still having them treated as individual networks.
If I were to buy everything over, the only thing I would change would be the switch. I would get a Netgear ProSafe GS110TP (8 ports) the series comes in 8, 16, 24, 32 and 48 ports depending on your needs. Has VLAN, port monitoring, but the 8 port model has POE on every port, eliminating the need for a port injector.
The only real downside to using a switch over a router is you don't have a NAT firewall (which if your connecting to a modem, the modem probably has that) and it does not have DHCP (again, a modem would take care of this, or just set static IP addresses), which if your goal is to just make everything talk to each other, a switch is a good option over a router.
Hope this helps guide you a little.
Kind regards,
Josh
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The TL-SG1024DE does not appear to support PoE. Don't you want/need PoE to power your cameras?
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So I decided to buy this router http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007B60SCG?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00 before I read about the managed smart switch. I have been running it for 2 days now. No issues! Was Plug & Play! Very simple set up! So far for $50 it is well worth it!
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