Ethernet options

[Dudealicious 0]

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

[Securame 0]

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?

 

You can put it in the garage and run just one cable. Use a switch (or an old hub if you have one around), not a router.

[jeromephone 6]

you can get a good poe 4 port switch for around 80.00 so that would take care of the power to those cameras as well.