yes I am beginning to realize that makes a lot more sense. I also need to put the cameras on their own subnet.

This is a nice feature of Synology surveillance system, I can see thumbnail of a camera before adding it.

Thanks for taking the time to reply, I appreciate your perspective.

Lee

I have only been runnign BI for a month or so now so this might be buried and don't know about it. BUT, is there a way to preview cameras before adding them ? Problem: I will often lose a connection of a camera and when re-adding it the IP address changes (dhcp). When you have list of more than a fe...