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  • For indoor cameras, I use TP-Link tapo wireless cameras, and hikvision for outdoor. I put all of them on an isolated camera wlan and vlan without internet. the tapos work fine without internet access, but the status light will always be orange as it tries to reach some tplink aws IP to verify connectivity.

    All the hikvision cameras and tapos support rtsp.








  • Use your own router, if you don’t want your traffic/activity watched, you must use a VPN. There are several routers that have built in VPN clients, that should be more convenient then per client VPN.

    For reference on what your ISP is using to watch your traffic from the subscriber through the core and to the internet, you will want to read about sflow/netflow, which reads packet headers. Technically, the ISP can capture all traffic and would have the full ability to read unencrypted data. There is also the ability to do MITM TLS shenanigans, but typically you see that at the enterprise level as end devices need to trust the certificate issued to the proxy. Also note that there is such thing as lawful intercept, which in the US means that law enforcement agencies can also snoop your traffic “with a court order” at any point, often without the ISP being explicitly notified.


  • if they are chaining them bandwidth will add up, and depending on the switching equipment they could be doing a large ring of some sort. it would be pretty easy to calculate since cameras are a pretty even throughput.

    Looks like a air fiber 24 which is only 1.5Gbps throughput, 8-24mbps per camera would mean between 60-200 cameras, which for a state transportation department wouldn’t be unreasonable, especially they are using these for something else, like interconnects between buildings for a metro-lan scenario.