CCTV networking

[Sorbz62]

Hi Guys,

Jim here and this is my foist post.

I recently bought an old (1858) house which has a Swann CCTV system in it with the DVR and monitor etc all in the attic (??).

I want to run a Cat 5/6 cable from it to my router which is in my living room 2 floors down but unsure as to the best way to do it bearing in mind that the house is obviously solid brick. What has everyone else done.

I may move the DVR and monitor down to bedroom but then I'd also need to run the camera cables down there from the attic AND run a network cable downstairs.

Any advice would be greatfully accepted!

Cheers,
Jim

 

[T1GERIII]

TP Link power line adaptor

 

[Sorbz62]

Thanks. I thought of them too but had really bad connections with dropouts in a previous house.

Also, what could I replace my Swann DVR with but keep all the analogue cameras? I think mine is dying.

 

[hllns]

Are the cameras high quality or a pain to replace?
DVRs are a bit old hat for a lot of applications and I'm assisting in the phase out of some at work, we're using analogue video to IP converters to convert a load of cameras over but for a few cameras in a domestic setting with shorter cable runs it might be as easy (and may be cheaper) to just put in IP cameras, either way you'd then only need one cable run from the loft.