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    System recommendations

    My current system consists of 4 wireless ip cameras (Foscam 720p) monitored by Blue Iris. 2 cameras on my garage looking at the street, 1 on the back of the house and 1 on the front. The house cams aren't all that important being that my yard is fairly inaccessible. It's the 2 on the garage that look at the street I monitor the most. I want to upgrade them to 1080p and hard-wire them to an NVR. Ditching Blue Iris. So what I'm looking from you, the CCTV Forum professionals of the world is recommendations on equipment. Cams & NVR. It's virtually impossible for me to hard-wire the house cams so they must stay wireless and 720p on those is fine, I'll just use my existing cams. I basically need 2 1080p bullet cams and a NVR w/4 channels minimum (PoE is preferred) that will also accept my 2 wireless IP cams. I'd also like to spend no more than $1000. Oh yeah, remote iPhone viewable too. Is this request possible? Can most NVR's accept multiple camera makers? The way I see it is an IP address is an IP address right? But what do I know I'm just Joe consumer. Thanks for the help!
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    Ethernet options

    My home video system currently consists of 4 wireless ip cams scattered around my property and a dedicated computer running Blue Iris. Foscam 9805W's. They've all been working great up until a few weeks ago. 2 of them started giving me maybe 10 fps if I'm lucky. And these cover the front of my house/driveway etc. Kind of important. At first I thought my WiFi was competing with a neighbors' so I ran WiFi Explorer and that's not the case. I installed a WiFi extender and that did nothing as well. So I might as well just hardwire them to the NVR. Now my question is does each camera need to plug into the router in the house individually or can I put a router/hub down in the garage, plug each camera into that router, then run 1 ethernet up to the house and plug that into the main router? It's about a 60 ft run and since I've already run my gate buzzer inside a 1/2" PVC I would just run the additional ethernet in there as well. 1 more ethernet will certainly fit, not sure about 2. Thanks for the help Bob
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