gordonm
Novice Member
Hi all,
I have a house that has the following set-up:
- 7 rooms each with their own Ethernet port
- 5 PoE security cameras
The kit that serves this set-up is as follows:
1. The main router is a NETGEAR R7800 Nighthawk X4S Dual-Band AC2300
2. That router connects to a switch, a Netgear ProSafe GS516TP 16 Port Gigabit PoE.
3. The switch powers the 5 cameras which are all Y-CAM OUTOOR HD PRO's via PoE.
4. The switch also has cabling going out to service the 7 rooms
5. Because of limited wifi signal, two of the rooms have another wifi router connected via the Ethernet port - both TP-Link TL-WR841N 300 Mbps Wireless N units.
All of this works absolutely fine most of the time, but the switch seems to cause problems every so often. Basically the entire local network goes down. Disconnecting the switch resolves the problem to the extent that the router and wifi are restored. But re-connecting the switch brings it all down again.
It's as though the switch messes up all of the traffic. It's not clear to me exactly what fixes it, one time re-installing the switch firmware worked. The next I had to take all the Ethernet cables out of the switch and plug them back in one-by-one after a reboot.
The events that have coincided with the switch problems (that I know of) have been (1) disconnecting the PoE cameras one time and (2) a power cut which forced the switch off and on again.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what might cause the switch to do this? I really need it to be much more reliable.
My thoughts were PoE overload (although the 5 cameras are within the maximum of the switch) and some kind of looping problem that the switch cannot deal with after a reboot. But these are just guesses really.
Thanks.
I have a house that has the following set-up:
- 7 rooms each with their own Ethernet port
- 5 PoE security cameras
The kit that serves this set-up is as follows:
1. The main router is a NETGEAR R7800 Nighthawk X4S Dual-Band AC2300
2. That router connects to a switch, a Netgear ProSafe GS516TP 16 Port Gigabit PoE.
3. The switch powers the 5 cameras which are all Y-CAM OUTOOR HD PRO's via PoE.
4. The switch also has cabling going out to service the 7 rooms
5. Because of limited wifi signal, two of the rooms have another wifi router connected via the Ethernet port - both TP-Link TL-WR841N 300 Mbps Wireless N units.
All of this works absolutely fine most of the time, but the switch seems to cause problems every so often. Basically the entire local network goes down. Disconnecting the switch resolves the problem to the extent that the router and wifi are restored. But re-connecting the switch brings it all down again.
It's as though the switch messes up all of the traffic. It's not clear to me exactly what fixes it, one time re-installing the switch firmware worked. The next I had to take all the Ethernet cables out of the switch and plug them back in one-by-one after a reboot.
The events that have coincided with the switch problems (that I know of) have been (1) disconnecting the PoE cameras one time and (2) a power cut which forced the switch off and on again.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what might cause the switch to do this? I really need it to be much more reliable.
My thoughts were PoE overload (although the 5 cameras are within the maximum of the switch) and some kind of looping problem that the switch cannot deal with after a reboot. But these are just guesses really.
Thanks.