Zavio D6111 with POE injector

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Tracy5186
Member

Bought the Zavio D6111 mega-pixel dome and a POE power injector kit from your site. My Mac can find the camera using Safari and Bonjour as long as I use the normal power cord and a cat5 patch cable going to the router. When I use the POE injector and two cat5 patch cables, Bonjour cannot find the camera. The blue power light does come on on the camera, but Bonjour can no longer find the camera.

Questions:
Do I need to use crossover cables instead of patch cables?
Do I need to use cat5e instead of regular cat5?

Thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
Mike Haldas
CCTV Camera Pros Co-Founder

Tracy5186,

Thank you for using our support forum. Yes cat5e is recommended for Power over Ethernet IP cameras. Sometimes cat5 does not work especially at longer distances. You DO NOT need to make a crossover cable. Please just try cat5e.

Let us know if we can help further.

Posted 1 year ago #
Tracy5186
Member

Mike,

Using cat5e cables did the trick. Everything now works perfectly.

Thanks!
Tracy

Posted 1 year ago #
Mike Haldas
CCTV Camera Pros Co-Founder

Tracy,

Glad to hear that worked for you. Please let us know if CCTV Camera Pros can help in the future.

Sincerely.
-Mike

Posted 1 year ago #

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