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I'm planning on using cat5 with video baluns to carry video and using a
second pair in the same cat5 cable to carry power to each camera. The
runs would be under 300ft.

Am I correct in assuming that I can connect 2 camera's to each cat5
cable using 2 pair for each camera or would that be a problem?

Thanks for the info about CentOS and P3's. I was not able to install FC10 on
my server because of driver issues so I'm going to try another old Compaq server I have.

I'll update everyone on how it runs, maybe there is some interest in using old hdw for inexpensive security systems.

Good to know there were issues with FC5/FC6 thanks! It's a fully updated FC6 system so the problems may not have been fixed. I may jump to FC 10, just did not want to take the time. FC6 was very solid for what we used it for (web/mysql server) so I was hoping it was something easy. I don't do Debian ...

I've setup ZM on a P3 server running Fedora 6 and it seems to be a great software so far. It's an ex web server with 2.5gb ram and running dual 1.4ghz P3 Tualatin CPU's. I have a lot these servers and would like to make use of them if possible. The capture card I have is a generic 4 chip BT858 that ...