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Good luck buying from one of their representatives too. I won't mention any names but we tried for months to buy from a California rep and eventually gave up.

Are you actually using Motorolla Canopy? I've seen the pricing on their stuff, pretty astronomical, especially for just 10mb. Must be pretty good stuff if they charge as much as they do?

Only 18 Amps from a 15' x 9' 4 panel array? You using SunWize panels?

Thomas- Wireless Eye is In House built, we are integrators and service providers. C7- What is StarOS?

I've had really good luck with MiLan managed switches. They are very dependable.

I cannot tell you who we use as it's a trade secret, but I can tell you there are MANY other solutions than Trango. If I were you, and planned on doing any other wireless installations in the future, it might pay to do some research into wireless equipment. Trango works, and so does Tranzeo, which is even more over priced. If you want Max performance and don't want to pay a fortune, try looking at what companies like Trango are giving you. It's basically an embedded device server with a mini-pc slot for a radio card.... Hook that card to a high gain antenna. What you'll have is a link that's solid for 10-15 miles and throughput like no one's business. For approx. 1/5 the cost.... It works for us, very well. Sorry for the vagueness of my answer, but it's really all the hints I can give.

Glad to hear you got hooked up with Acti. Mike's a good guy. Trango will work ok, but you're paying 6 times what it's worth. (Paying for the name).

Rory, I don't have a solution to your NVR situation as we use custom software for our control room. I can say that I hope your LCD screen is large, 36 cameras is more than what we put on our 150" screens. The only mainstream apps that I know of that support ACTi are D3 Data and Milestone/ONSSI. Cool thing about Milestone/ONSSI is that is only opens up 1 connection to the video server, and shares it via its own relay server for Local Viewing/Recording/Touring/Web Clients. That cuts bandwidth usage dramatically.

I've had much better luck with ACTi emailing than with Axis... I've got 1 open support ticket with Axis that I've been waiting for nearly 6 weeks for a response. Really quite pathetic, considering how much money we've spent with them in the past... ACTi has a direct contact. Her name is Michelle. Her email is: michelle.chen@acti.com

Weren't you talking with my partner Marcus about this? He told me it would be easy...

Sales rep over here (California) is: www.thevideospecialists.com Good people to work with.

Sigh. Some people. I guess wireless-ignorance is bliss?

Try here, some really neat alarm clock wireless cams, great for installs right next to the bed. http://www.supercircuits.com/

I was at ISC West a few months ago, and my partner won a free beer at the Northern Video booth playing basketball. Pretty cute girl handing out the basketballs too, therefore they can charge whatever they'd like. =) I did hear from a lot of people that there was tons of DVR stuff at ISC East, which of course generally are where the Korean/Taiwanese/Korean people come from, whereas ISC West a lot of stuff was going to NVR.

Thomas is correct. If you own legit licenses, you can install a Slipstreamed XP without a legal problem. Network technicians do it all the time. Think about it this way, if you have to build 50 computers at once for a corporate, system-wide upgrade, you would take 1 computer and get it EXACTLY the way you want it, then ghost it onto the remaining 49 computers, changing each computer's license only to maintain legality. What you are doing is no different.

My company does construction security, almost exclusively. If it's time lapse you are looking for, then it will definately not be suitable for security purposes. But if you are looking for something to keep track of construction process, anything will work really. IQEYE 2.0MP cams in a nice enclosure will suit you just fine for a stationary cam install. Pretty much any Bosch, Panasonic, Pelco, etc. dome will work fine as well, if you require PTZ.

Haven't worked with any of the equipment you are asking about, but have worked and still work in the frequency you are speaking of. Are you planning on solar powering this? If so, good luck with an Esprit PTZ on a trailer. 900GB of disk space will be fine for a couple days of good framerates from 6 cams. We actually had to go to a server farm setup with multiple 2TB NAS servers, due to the volume of cameras we have out. Your microwave equipment will be fine, providing it's outdoor rated, and you are using outdoor rated CAT5. Never worked with the Cisco stuff, but it is close to what we are using and performs well. Have heard the Esprit PTZ's are good but as I stated before, they use far too much power for solar.

Pelco's world headquarters is 30 miles north of me. No one would talk to me or any of my associates. Too bad. We order a ton of PTZ's, but not from them, from one of their competitors, who by the way, treat us like royalty. Sad really. I would compare Pelco to Axis, industry pioneers that turn into dinosaurs.

D&H is who I use, got a warehouse right down the road, and they are awesome. Unfortunately, closest place to Miami they have is Jacksonville. The could ship to you next day cheap though, www.dandh.com.

Rory, sorry hadn't realized the forum turned my numbers into a happy face..... It would take SIXTY-EIGHT, Eighty Watt panels to power what you are talking about, Not Six. However, the illuminators would only be on for 9 hours (at night), so you'd really only need TWENTY-FOUR panels. ~400 Watts @ 120 VAC - 3.35 Amps. Factor in a sine-wave invertor for voltage convertion from 12VDC to 120VAC and you'll lose 15% efficiency as well. So to backtrack, that's 354.7 amp hours per day at 85% efficiency. You'd also need TWELVE, Nighty-Eight amp hour batteries to have just One day of autonomy (backup). As you can see, this PV system is getting rather large, and we haven't even started on charge controllers. Believe me, running that much power for 1 camear is not feasible.

Rory- Where do you get 4 panels from? 400 Watts @ 120VAC requires much more than 4 panels could ever produce. Even if you used 160 Watt panels, it would still take over 30 panels to power. This is the same reason why we put 1 Thermal Camera, and 1 standard PTZ on our security systems, for true day night capability. Take it from someone who works with solar every day, every watt counts.

We've worked with the military before, at an airbase even. They gave us a list of frequencies in use, and frequencies we could use. Since it was military and all licensed frequencies, our civilian radio equipment was never noticed. It's strange they won't allow you to use it, but if that's the situation, then I agree, fiber would be your best bet. Tough break with the terrain, the only thing they didn't put in the ground are land mines huh? =) BTW Rory- In order to touch the detection range of a "cheap" thermal, it would take (2) 200 Watt illuminators, for approx. 1300ft, per Extreme's web site. Which would take roughly (68) 80 Watt Solar panels, best case scenario. That's approx 23 grand just for the panels, wholesale. The Pan-Tilt Thermal we use, uses only 300ma when moving and 50ma while idle. It requires (1) solar panel.

600 ft. is a cake-walk for wireless, even for people who don't know how to work with wireless, can't use interference as an excuse, because you haven't explored different frequencies. Solar can work too, but would not recommend with IR Illuminators. Those puppies take too much power for solar, at least, if you want long range detection. If you're talking military, they'd much rather use thermal anyhow.

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SP2 better and faster than SP1? Sorry. Perhaps it's better for security (except it's unintelligent blocking of safe controls), but my experience is that SP2 not only slows TCP performance (which has been proven), but also overall system performance. That experience is based on over 100 systems that have been upgraded from SP1 to SP2.