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hayhand
Jul 28, 2015Guide
Move cameras and VCR off main network
I have 3 wireless cameras connected to my home network that record to a LAN connected VCR. There is a LOT of traffic from these cameras and cause bandwidth issues when streaming video from the inte...
- Aug 02, 2015
Welll it is time to close out this issue, so here is the answer....
It actually was a simplistic fix - just keep all the cameras and NVR (network video recorder) all on the same router. So I used a WMDR3700V2 router set as an AP then one LAN port went back to the modem/router, one port went to the NVR and then the wireless cameras were all attached to that same router. Now all the traffice stayed on that router yet I could get to all the devices from anywhere on the house LAN. The problem before was that I had the NVR at the other end of the house on the LAN and so all the camera traffice passed through the modem/router and reduced the BW for other competing devices. Some times a problem that seems complex and difficult turns out to be easy. Thanks for all your comments......
Richard
Babylon5
Jul 30, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
I suggest that you do some research into Ethernet Switches, the routers' LAN ports are an Ethernet switch. See how these can be used to separate traffic flow over a LAN and then I think you will find that the solution is actually quite simple, especially since your cameras are wireless.
This might help;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch
“Microsegmentation
Segmentation involes the use of a bridge or a switch (or a router) to split a larger collision domain into smaller ones in order to reduce collision probability, and to improve overall network throughput. In the extreme case (i.e. microsegmentation), each device is located on a dedicated switch port. In contrast to an Ethernet hub, there is a separate collision domain on each of the switch ports. This allows computers to have dedicated bandwidth on point-to-point connections to the network and also to run in full-duplex without collisions. Full-duplex mode has only one transmitter and one receiver per "collision domain", making collisions impossible.”
hayhand
Aug 02, 2015Guide
Welll it is time to close out this issue, so here is the answer....
It actually was a simplistic fix - just keep all the cameras and NVR (network video recorder) all on the same router. So I used a WMDR3700V2 router set as an AP then one LAN port went back to the modem/router, one port went to the NVR and then the wireless cameras were all attached to that same router. Now all the traffice stayed on that router yet I could get to all the devices from anywhere on the house LAN. The problem before was that I had the NVR at the other end of the house on the LAN and so all the camera traffice passed through the modem/router and reduced the BW for other competing devices. Some times a problem that seems complex and difficult turns out to be easy. Thanks for all your comments......
Richard