@GRL I am planning on adding an 8 and 16 port POE+ managed switches as soon as there is budget for them :)

Thank you so much for the tips and the assist @GRL & @D-C! I discovered the Legal DHCP Servers option way too late while I was crossing my t's and dotting my i's making sure I didnt make a mistake. I...

@D-C Someone thought it was a good idea to plug in a 5G CPE router to the gateway thinking it was plug and play and they could use it as a 3rd ISP option. I hadn't enabled Port3/wan as wan yet so it...

@D-C thanks for the feedback! The SG2210P was reset. The device name was set back to its MAC address. But it still manages to aquire the IP 192.168.188.xxx. So it cannot be adopted. There is only...

@D-C I unplugged both NVRs and rebooted the gateway. devices are still defaulting to 192.168.188.xxx. please see screenshots Caption Caption

@D_C Good point! I'll have someone pull both recorder cables from the switch