Ah yeah, forgot there is a license lock but it’s super easy to get past with some custom firmware, I went through the process in my video on the upgrade here
Yeah, software licenses locking hardware stuff is dumb, but when it’s this easy to get around, eh.
You’d think someone who actually gets views on YouTube and makes a good amount of money from it would have covered that part…
Aruba s2500 worked great for me, when mine died I changed to a brocade icx6610.
I will say the Aruba doesn’t give you full 10 gig technically but it’s very close, the brocade switch is great though as it has 8 10 gig ports, and two qsfp, one that can be broken out into an additional 8 ports.
It’s also a lot more cable management wise, more than I could possibly need. The s2500 was used more as a dumb switch however though.
Hell, you can just get a second dumb switch, have a dedicated ethernet port on a boat computer running blue iris or something else and have absolutely zero overlap on your networks.
Only way to access the camera then is from that machine. Of course that means you need POE cams but those are better than wireless anyhow.