I have two IP POE cameras (10.x.x.62 and 10.x.x.63). My Window's 10 laptop's wired LAN connection is 10.x.x.82. I also have a Windows 10 desktop PC at 10.x.x.37. The gateway for all of them is 10.x.x.1 (my Xfinity cable modem/router). All four devices are connected to a POE switch, and the POE switch is connected to a "big switch", which is connected to the cable modem. All LAN addresses involved are hardcoded, i.e., not DHCP leased. With this setup, both PC's can connect to both cameras using the camera manufacturer's client.
I'm trying to set things up so I can take the laptop, cameras, and POE switch to our house (which is under construction) so I can get a better idea of what I need to do for security camera coverage. I have temporary power at the house, but no Internet connection.
It's not working the way I think it should when I'm testing the "mobile setup" at my current home...
When I use the mobile setup (laptop and two cameras connected to the POE switch, and nothing else connected to them), the laptop camera app can't connect to either camera. I can ping both of them, and tracert gets to them in one hop. If I connect the POE switch to the big switch (without changing anything else), the cameras connect almost immediately. Even more odd, I can disconnect the cable between the POE switch and the big switch after the cameras connect, and the laptop and cameras continue to work together. So it seems like some kind of handshaking at connect time is failing.
Even more odd... if I disconnect my desktop PC from my local LAN and plug it directly into the POE switch (i.e., the POE switch now has the desktop PC, laptop, and a camera plugged in, but the POE switch isn't connected to the big switch), the desktop PC can connect to the cameras using the camera client, but the laptop still cannot. Also, both the laptop and the PC can ping the cameras, but they cannot ping each other.
Since the PC can view the cameras in the mobile setup, I'm thinking there's a setup problem somewhere on the laptop. One new thing I did today was install a USB ethernet adapter because the laptop doesn't have a LAN port (we always used wireless LAN up until now). It's a TP-Link adapter and it seems to work fine with the driver that Windows chose when I plugged it in.
Any ideas on what may be messing things up?
Thanks,
Ira
I'm trying to set things up so I can take the laptop, cameras, and POE switch to our house (which is under construction) so I can get a better idea of what I need to do for security camera coverage. I have temporary power at the house, but no Internet connection.
It's not working the way I think it should when I'm testing the "mobile setup" at my current home...
When I use the mobile setup (laptop and two cameras connected to the POE switch, and nothing else connected to them), the laptop camera app can't connect to either camera. I can ping both of them, and tracert gets to them in one hop. If I connect the POE switch to the big switch (without changing anything else), the cameras connect almost immediately. Even more odd, I can disconnect the cable between the POE switch and the big switch after the cameras connect, and the laptop and cameras continue to work together. So it seems like some kind of handshaking at connect time is failing.
Even more odd... if I disconnect my desktop PC from my local LAN and plug it directly into the POE switch (i.e., the POE switch now has the desktop PC, laptop, and a camera plugged in, but the POE switch isn't connected to the big switch), the desktop PC can connect to the cameras using the camera client, but the laptop still cannot. Also, both the laptop and the PC can ping the cameras, but they cannot ping each other.
Since the PC can view the cameras in the mobile setup, I'm thinking there's a setup problem somewhere on the laptop. One new thing I did today was install a USB ethernet adapter because the laptop doesn't have a LAN port (we always used wireless LAN up until now). It's a TP-Link adapter and it seems to work fine with the driver that Windows chose when I plugged it in.
Any ideas on what may be messing things up?
Thanks,
Ira