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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...
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
In this case the cameras are all wireless and only the VCR is on a LAN port. Will that make a difference?
Well in that case you would still want to separate traffic. So with the ‘3700 set up as an Access Point as you suggested, with the DVR connected to one of its LAN ports then traffic should not be visible at the other LAN ports. But unless the Q1000 is also wireless then the camera traffic will be using up WiFi time, and whether that’s an issue or not depends on what other WiFi devices you have and what you do with them. If you want to also stream data wirelessly to other devices then maybe use another separate AP, or if those devices are 5GHz capable use that band on the ‘3700 (assuming 2.4GHz would be used for the cameras).
That's kind of where I was going with my question. Could you not create an isolated AP, with a different subnet (or same subnet of the two networks don't meet), different SSID for the camera's and have the VCR connecting to one of the LAN ports, of the isolated AP? The reason why I asked if the camera's needed to talk to anything on the Internet (updates etc), as that part would have to be done manually, but you would have no camera traffic on your local LAN segment.
Thank you for your comments on this, I really appreciate it. I have several different approaches to try now and with some new insight on how this works I'm sure I will find the right combination. I actually have 2 other APs besides the Wifi on the modem/router and they are all on separate channels and have their own SSIDs. I will work on this in a few days as I move kind of slow (I'm 80) and then report back on what I finally learned and what the final setup turned out to be.
Richard
- 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.”
