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    Commercial Location PoE Installation - Ethernet Switch

    Having done some research, I am wondering if a second router might be a solution after all; however NOT back into the network through the switch. The VPN primer post you'd linked made some very good points about the importance of network security. As such I don't think it wise in this instance...
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    Commercial Location PoE Installation - Ethernet Switch

    Why the VPN?
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    Commercial Location PoE Installation - Ethernet Switch

    Peril? Wow...point taken! I will reaffirm the network configuration when I return there in a couple of days to final measure. Heeding your advice and plugging into said E. switch, need I do any configuration such as DHCP IP address reservation, etc?
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    Commercial Location PoE Installation - Ethernet Switch

    "I don't know whether there's some specific reason for it (e.g., to segregate the entire POE network)." I personally have no reason for it per se; the customer had a low-end wireless system going to the "2nd router" when he called me. I moved him into a PoE system as it better suits his...
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    Commercial Location PoE Installation - Ethernet Switch

    Mike, Thanks for answering. I am still a bit unclear however. "Is the POE device a router or a switch?" I'm not sure if that is a rhetorical question or not. To clarify if you were asking me: The PoE consists of an NVR, hard-wired cameras, a mouse and monitor for the NVR and a router to...
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    Commercial Location PoE Installation - Ethernet Switch

    Hello all, I am installing an 8 camera 1080p PoE system at a commercial property; all Cat6 home runs. The property has a small network which includes a rack mountable Ethernet switch. Currently the property owner has multiple devices coming out of the switch including the dedicated router for...
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