Combining the internet and IP camera network

[salehjoon]

I am trying to setup a network between my home and business located within 600ft of each other in a rural area. I am running a cat 6 cable underground between the two buildings with two gigabit switches along the way (to stay under 300ft maximum cable length). I am hoping to be able to combine two separate networks as described below:

1. I want to be able to share the business class internet (50mbps with static ip address) with my home where I maintain an office.

2. I want to install IP cameras (at least 8) in my business and a few more around my house, and be able to record videos with a NVR located at either location.

Will it be possible to connect the ethernet cable coming off of the ISP modem at my business to the same switch that the business IP cameras connect to, from there run a long cable (600ft or so) to my house and connect it to another switch where other IP cameras connect to, and from there to a NVR for video recording and a router for internet sharing?

I have a feeling I may have two run two separate cables, one for the internet network and one for the IP camera network, but I was hoping to avoid that. I'd appreciate any feedback.

 

[fricklesmn]

Hello,

If your ISP modem has routing capabilities and DHCP server you can connect it all together with just switches, no need for an additional router on home end. connect as you have described and everything should work. If the router on home end is for WiFi, then disable DHCP and use as just an access point, so everything stays on the same IP network range.

A standard IP network can handle (theoretically) 254 connections (ex. 192.168.x.1-192.168.x.254) and it sound like you wouldn't hit near that. I think your setup will work, tho im not sure on the 2x300ft runs with switch inbetween, that is my only grey area

 

[bill001g]

It really depends if there is any special dependance on the ip cameras network. In most cases they should just work as other devices on your lan they just will not use the internet. If they would happen to need a different subnet you can buy switches that support vlans or you can just overlap the 2 ....not the best idea but it works. I am going to bet you can just run everything on one big network. Still if you think you need 2 cables in the end just use switches that support vlans and let them share a single cable.

Going 600ft is going to be tricky since you need to get power to the switches to regenerate the signals. It can be done but it may not cost you a lot more to just use fiber and not worry about problems. The power is the main issue. You could run a fiber in a a conduit for about the same price as direct bury ethernet is going to cost I suspect. The switches that take fiber connection have come way down in price and you can get ethernet to fiber converters for fairly cheap also. If you were to pay someone to put this in the largest cost is going to be for digging the trench so the materials costs would be minimal compared to the labor. Even if you do it yourself digging and burying stuff is a lot of work so you do not want to ever have to redo it so do not try to do it on the cheap like just burying normal ethernet cable