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I would think that pretty much any decent performance drive with no SATA issues would record decent video because the write performance demand would not be high on a recorder like this, unless you had a TON of cameras streaming to be recorded. My gut tells me that either your recorder is not a 4K ca...

BTW, I never did figure out why the 2 Spectrum customers had issues but I have not had to go to their sites yet, Reboots of everything fixed them. My only guess I did not set reservations in the router for the Non-POE recorders and cameras. Previously, I was primarily installing POE ready NVR's befo...

Thanks for the lenthgy and well explaied reply, you confirmed my complexity and "junk" router concerns. For the Starlink customer, he has no other option for decent internet. Because of his location, the only local carrier option is DSL which is only rated at up to 100mbps (YUK!), but in r...

Also wanted to note that the Amcrest tech wanted me to go to the site and do a reset on each camera using the reset hole, which means taking a ladder back to the client's location after hours and doing the resets before testing again.

Hello, Long time Amcrest user & installer, first time using the forum. I am an IT guy with 30+ years of doing consulting work for clients, often working with differing subnets/VLANS and understand networking very well. I install several Amcrest systems a year on a private basis for my clients (b...