Ip Camer Network + Dual Router + Bottleneck (Picture Included)

[davidolb]

I am currently running the network shown in the picture except the DLink is not there. Everythgin is run to the switch. I have been having weird issues with cameras dropping and latency issues. For fun I hooked up a router in the barn and isolated from the house router. I saw a substantial gain in performance. Might be just in my head so please educate me

So I was thinking that by placing another router in the barn I would be able to keep the traffic out of the 10Mbit line from the house.

I need to have internet access out in the barn and there needs to be camera access from the house and ideally from the internet. Either way I would like the router in the barn to be the "boss".

Any tips on this

 

[davidolb]

I realize that I cant stop using the 10mbit line but I want to minimize the traffic unless its asked for in the house if that makes sense.

 

[bill001g]

Even without the router the traffic between machines in the barn will not use the 10m link. Even though the switch is dumb it still knows what ports the camera and camera server are on. It will not send any traffic to the house or the internet router unless it has a reason to go there.

Mostly this depends how your application is written. If it needs a file server or something in the house then it will send data there you would have to tell it to use a file server in the barn. Hard to say this is just a guess. The key factor is the camera and the camera server will talk directly to each other without going through the router. You can turn the router off and they should still function. If they don't then you have to look into what dependency they have...it is not a network thing.

 

[davidolb]

Even without the router the traffic between machines in the barn will not use the 10m link. Even though the switch is dumb it still knows what ports the camera and camera server are on. It will not send any traffic to the house or the internet router unless it has a reason to go there.

Mostly this depends how your application is written. If it needs a file server or something in the house then it will send data there you would have to tell it to use a file server in the barn. Hard to say this is just a guess. The key factor is the camera and the camera server will talk directly to each other without going through the router. You can turn the router off and they should still function. If they don't then you have to look into what dependency they have...it is not a network thing.

That's what I kind of thought. I couldn't explain why things seemed to function better with the router in the barn so I took a guess. So in a perfect world there is will be nothing gained from the second router except wifi available in the barn.

And yes the house has nothing to do with barn stuff except for a network printer. Nothing to do with the camera setup.

So as is there realty isn't much to do to increase efficiency then

 

[bill001g]

It should run pretty fast in the barn since you it is unlikely the cameras generate more traffic than the switch can handle. The 10m uplink you just have to make sure you work remotely as much as possible. You do not for example want to pull a video file all the way to the house to process it you would be best using something like remote desktop to preprocess files on the server in the barn and then upload the smaller results.

It is mostly a different way of thinking. We consolidate data centers all the time and it take a while for the users to get used to running on a remote server rather than copying everything back to their local machine.