trauts14 0 Posted May 3, 2014 If I have 4 IP cams each 3MP) on my network will I experience network slow down? I do not plan on streaming them remotely. Just recording and viewing locally. For example, with this amount cams recording on my network will I see a slow down when I view Netflix or stream video from another source. Will it slow down my internet? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dalepres 0 Posted May 4, 2014 If you figure about 8Mb per second from each camera, you're at about 32Mb (edited to fix the math for 4 cameras instead of 3). Considering that's a steady stream of data , and if you're on a 100Mb network, you're going to have a lot of collisions which disproportionately impact network performance and you're going to start having noticeable problems. On a good quality gigabit network, you should hardly notice. What I did for mine was to use dual NICs in my PC and have my video on a separate gigabit network from my Internet network. That way neither one has an impact on the other. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
