Hello techies and good day. This is Fred with Tech Talk and were coming at you today with an
exciting video on this BV Tech 24 port PoE plus switch. This this is a two layer switch with
long distance high power capabilities. It is is managed via a browser interface
and in that interface you can actually control each port as far as throughput,
distance and power consumption. The first two ports (one and two) are high powered
60 watt ports. These are for high consumption PoE devices such as PTZ cameras with heaters
and blowers. Those need need a little more fuel to work so we'll want to use them in those two ports.
The other 22 ports are your standard 30 watt ports those will work with your standard IP camera,
IP phone and devices such as that. We obviously have the two gigabit ethernet uplink ports. We
also have two SFP gigabit ports for fiber and our console port. We we will cover in this video how
to log into the web interface and how to use those controls. OK, so let's get into this.
OK, kids let's get into the meat and potatoes. Before we do, you know the drill please subscribe
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this is a neat switch. In the box it comes with a standard power cord
obviously that would plug into your port here.
The rear of the switch has a cooling fan . The on/ off switch. OK, you also have a grounding loop for
it. On the front we already covered most of the details on the front, there is a reset button
that you can push to reset the device in the event you need to do that. The switch also comes with
rack mount, so if you are going to mount this on your IT rack you will need this mounting hardware
and that comes with it as well. OK, what I'd like to do is get this connected. I'm going to plug it
into our firewall and go over the interface with you here in a second
Alright kids, so we have located the switch on our network as you can see. The IP address on our LAN
is 192.168.0.51. the way we find that is by using a IP scanning tool. I prefer Advanced IP Scanner
as you can see you can hit scan and it will pick up any device that is networked on your LAN.
Okay, there's a link for this particular tool in the description of our video so you can download
this tool if you need to. In any event, on the PoE switch box you will find your mac address.
You are searching for that, you're not searching by IP address you're searching by mac address.
In turn that will give you the IP address of the switch on your network. We will then pull that up
in the browser and sure enough it's prompting us to create a password so we'll go ahead and do that
Just like so. And once that's entered it's going
to prompt you to log in with that password we just created
and there we are friends. The first thing you'll see when you log in is a status graph.
Okay and it's going to show you by the color blue which ports are active. We have an
uplink port which is port 25 active. Thats what's plugged into our firewall
and it will show you right here port 25 is up again as indicated by the blue. It also can detect
that this is a copper input not fiber okay. Fiber would be port 26 here. The next thing we can do
is check port 23 we have an IP phone plugged into that PoE port and you can see that is also up okay
very good. So once you've checked that we can go into really the meat and potatoes of the
tutorial which is the system info right. This is where we configure everything and once we're in
here we can make our adjustments in the machine. The first thing we want to do is adjust the time
and it looks like the time is correct. It is 11/14 at 08 56am and that matches the time stamp on our
desktop. You will note I took my picture off of the screen so you guys can get the full effect.
If this did not match, you simply hit sync with pc and it would make the time of the PoE switch
reflect that of your desktop. Network connection is pretty simple. This again is a two layer switch
so it does not have routing capabilities. It passes packets by mac address not by IP address
so we'll leave that clicked DHCP. If this were a three layer switch, which does have routing
capabilities, we could click static here and input the IP address from our internet service provider
such as Comcast or Verizon or what not. Seeing this is a two layer switch and does not have
routing capabilities we're going to leave it on DHCP. Not to get into a technology class,
but that's the difference folks between a two layer switch and a three layer
switch. A two layer switch passes packets by mac address whereas a three layer switch
has routing capabilities. It's a routing switch right. So we will leave this on DHCP
and we'll go to software update. This would be the equivalent of a firmware upgrade for a NVR,
DVR or IP camera. You can actually go to poedepot.com
and register for a account with them under the login tab and what this will do it will allow you
to get updates on your switch from BV Tech when they're available. You would save that update
to your desktop or to your downloads file, pick it up with browse here and then you could update your
machine. This is a brand new machine so there's no need to do that right now. Change password this is
where you would change the administrator password we just created. There is a factory default
reset button which would restore your machine to factory settings the way it came out of the box.
There is a system reboot button this is obviously to reboot the switch. If you are
tech savvy and know how to port forward, there is a video link above, but if you port forward
your modem or router to this IP address through port 80 you can actually log into the machine
using your dynamic or static IP address and reboot it remotely. That would be for if your spouse or
child calls and says you know the internet is slow can you reboot it. Sure you can reboot the switch.
Login information, again this is a new switch so there's not a lot of activity here but you can
hit search and this will show you times that the switch was logged into remotely. This interface
port management tab is really where the cool features of this feature packed switch are.
For configuration we can name the individual ports. We mentioned earlier that there is a
IP phone plugged into port 23. I could name that
IP Phone. We also know that 25 is our uplink port so we could put up link from firewall.
This is useful if a device goes down or something's not working. If it is a
printer or IP phone you could pull this up and say well it's getting communication from the switch.
You can also, if ports are not being used and you don't want them to be used,
you can turn them off. That that will shut that port off. As far as duplex settings
for speed you can change to full or half at both 10 mbps and 100. So that's kind of cool.
Port statistics will just show rx and tx packets.
Again we're using minimal internet right. As you can see tx is at seven rx is at 16 for the input.
The phone has tx but no rx so that just kind of monitors throughput. Speed port limit is another
cool feature. This would be for bandwidth or throughput controls. you can actually
limit the mbps that each port is capable of processing. So if you have a small business,
say you have 10 computers but cost effectively you can only get 50 mbps from your internet service
provider, you wouldn't want all 24 of these ports to have unlimited throughput right. Each port can
process 100 mbps and that's more than you have from the internet service provider.
Theoretically one computer could hog all of your bandwidth. This feature basically prevents that
from happening . If it's just a basic data entry computer and folks are not going to
be using zoom or video capabilities, you know you could put that port at two or three mbps.
Let's say you come down to port 3 and this is the general manager's office
and they are going to be doing some zoom calls and video calls and stuff like that. The are
going to be uploading and downloading media so they need more bandwidth you could certainly give
them more. You could leave them unlimited or give them more because that's that's priority right.
So that is how you limit through put through this machine we could hit save when we're done.
Long Distance PoE. This is a cool feature if you install technology. In the past with standard PoE,
you could put a PoE device such as an IP camera or an IP phone up to 100 meters or 300 feet away from
a PoE switch. If you were 400, 500 or 600 feet away the device wouldn't work with
standard PoE. But PoE has has evolved like everything else and now we have
long distance PoE. What that allows us to do is identify a particular port. Say on port 4
we have a IP camera that is 750 or 800 feet away from the switch. If we leave the switch
in regular mode it's probably not going to work with that IP camera. But, if we switch
this to long distance PoE, this is going to give more power and distance to that port
and it will work at those distances. There is a trade-off though. As you can see at 100 meters,
which is normal distance, up to 100 meters you're going to be getting the full 100 mbps,
which the camera obviously doesn't need. But as you go 250 meters in distance the trade-off is
your speed goes down to 10 mbps. Again 10 mbps is plenty for a normal camera even if you're using a
4k camera streaming at 20 frames per second you're going to be at 5 or 6 mbps okay. So you're not
going to touch that ten, so we're fine with that. But that is how you enable the long distance PoE.
This is a very cool switch.When you're done you can log out of course by hitting the logout
button. This concludes the tutorial. Hopefully it was useful . Hopefully the content was useful
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