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Manage your cable so you don't do sharp turns. As Matt says, its cheaper and easier to just terminate on the end of the cable rather than use a jack then a patch cable. It also looks nicer as well rather than having a jbox somewhere close to the camera to house the jack, just run everything to the back of the camera. I've been doing this for 10+ years and have never had an issue with my cabling (that was a result of me rather than say rats chewing through it or someone deciding that it would be a good idea to cut it) Buying plugs should not be expensive if you source them right. Also if you're practising, just buy the cheapest plugs you can find, because you'll only bin them in the end. Once you know you're going to be using them, then buy more expensive plugs if need be. But whilst you're simply crimping and chopping and crimping and chopping, there's no sense in buying the 20p plugs when the 5p plugs will help you accomplish the same goal.

He's from the UK.

I have a GV1480? I think, on site. There are 8 cameras attached, 1 IP and 7 analogs. Every 3 days the cameras dropped out bar 2. I took it back to the office and tested it no issues. Reinstalled everything on it anyways. Took it back onsite. Cameras now drop out every 4 days rather than 3 but the issue still exists. Help please as this is driving me up the wall.

I have to be misunderstanding you. Or you're misunderstanding him... but I think you're very wrong here. How are you going to install an IP camera if you don't terminate with an RJ45 plug? How are you going to install cable into a location without a patch panel? That said. Why are you terminating in T568B? I know it won't make much difference when learning HOW but when you put into practice in the field, most (well 99% of sites I've been to are wired T568A). Also, when learning how to terminate, buy more than 10. Buy 100 or so. You'll need a lot. Now you'll get more practised as you go, but I usually strip back about 4-5cm, untwist each pair, straighten as I go, so the first straighten is a single strand, the 2nd is 2 strands, and so on, line it up, cut it so that the insulation will still be inside the jack when I terminate, check all cables are pushed in and in order and then terminate. Bear in mind that different jacks can make a world of difference when terminating.

No because Beta Max was actually superior to VHS. Where as HDcctv is not superior to IP.

I'll see that image and raise you with... Transmission medium immune to virus... I thought they wanted to be taken seriously. I should mention the linkedin thread earlier where Todd has made the astounding point that HDcctv has hit "prime time" because installers carry cable testers.

I've never had an issue running PoE switches off powerboards with other stuff plugged in. Separate power for the switches is unnecessary. If need be, toss a UPS somewhere close and run the switch power off that then plug the UPS into the powerboard in the cabinet.

The bayonet part should be obvious. Paul Neill and Carl Concelman are the 2 guys who invented it Oh now that we are on first name terms with the designers of BNC plugs, I will feel a lot more confident when crimping plugs on. I am glad nobody decided to try and bayonet Paul Niell and Carl Concelman You know there are a lot of metal things gone missing lately, a whole children's playground in my local park too.Wish they could achieve the same with the local moron teenagers. Carl, Paul and I go way back I would have had my name on the plug too, but I bailed on my round at the pub the day before so they cut my name! And besides, adding more letters to the end of that would have just made it a mouthful so I'm ok with that! I got my name on a widely sold soup range instead

POS's and the RS232 cables can be EXTREMELY fickle. You may need to set up the 7 & 8 cross and for a couple I've even needed to initiate the 6-4 cross too

Welcome fellow Sydneysider!

Hey mate, which city are you based in?

Throw a desicant pack in there. I just purchased a number of the 3 gram packs that have a self stick side and individually packaged. That still requires opening the unit which he would prefer not to do

Sounds like a service nightmare. How can you be great at anything if you do everything? Speak for yourself I can be great at everything because I'm amazing... dunno about you ;P

FD8361 - its the armour dome (vandal resistant) version of the 8161 and suitable for outdoors. Most outdoor domes these days are designed to be vandal resistant so they don't quite have the same aesthetics as an indoor.

I'm not North American, but are you talking analog or IP? and in relation to (4) - ISC West (or East if you cant make West)

Gateway settings?

I don't think he ever said it was an irrelevant term, but in the whole scheme of things, this is CCTV we're talking about, not pro gaming. Whether the response time of a camera is 250ms or 1000ms, once a human factor is involved, then it becomes an insignificant amount as a human response time is likely to be depending on event anything from 5000+ms.

The bayonet part should be obvious. Paul Neill and Carl Concelman are the 2 guys who invented it

These are superb cameras. They make for great indoor or outdoor cameras. AS far as I can make out they were originally designed as public transport cameras but I've found uses for them pretty much anywhere. I'd buy it if I didn't have to factor in shipping to Aus.

Yes but not through Geo. You'd need to get another program like netlimiter to do so. Another thing you can do is change the stream quality on the camera itself.

Evening... Forgive my ignorance, but why does it need to be covert? Yes I can understand you wanting to catch the stupid bint, but let's face it, she'll get cautioned or fined if caught and might even keep doing it out of spite. If you have cameras up in very visible places and out of reach and she knows she's being watched and ceases to vandalise your property, then surely you have achieved the desired result anyways? Throw in some motion sensing floods and you'll be right as rain! Bear in mind that your IR range is going to be limited especially if you go for the invisible IR options.

Am I missing something here... Who uses LAN addresses that start with 195 (can you have LANS with 195? aren't they public domain IPs?) and then migrate to LAN addresses beginning with 169... 169 addresses are usually self assigned because the DHCP cant be found. Which would imply that on the 2nd network there is no DHCP which probably means no NAT which is... What the hell?!?!??!?!?!? **EDIT** Oh you said your current range is in the 192 range, ok that's better. Ok this is what I think has happened. I'm still struggling with the ip addresses beginning with 195 but I'll take a guess. The 195 address range is public*. But since you didn't have internet on that network (presumably) then which ever muppet set up the network, created a stupid ip range, but it worked because there was not net connection (or something to that effect). Once you connect yourself to the net, the IPs on the cameras break because that range is public and not reserved for LANs. Suggestion that you readdress all the cameras to something normal like 192.168.x.x I have no idea how your network is run between your 2 sites, but you'll probably also need to fix it up a VPN or something so that you can have the 2 sites connected if they aren't physically connected. If they are physically connected (ie connected to the same switch(es)) then just readdress the cameras to 192.168.1.x That SHOULD fix the problem. *Further reading. the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority designated 3 separate ranges of IPs to be LAN only and not listed in the public domain. These were 192.168.x.x, 172.16-31.x.x and 10.x.x.x Anything else outside of these is a public IP and can be assigned to any device connected to the internet.

Brickcom are heavily into wireless

Can't say that it has. Pinched nerve or muscle down there? It's feasible I suppose...

Check out NUUO lite instead. For a domestic application you have no need of the full version with POS integration etc. NUUO lite is significantly cheaper. As for the Sanyo camera. I've not really noticed any excessive heat from those that I've installed.