Divide and conquer, right. OK, changed my main switch for a 24 port Planet, same. Changed patch cords - same. Completely isolated this little setup with an 8 port DLink switch. 1 port to camera - 1 port to my PC. Latency issue much better but still ~1 seconds behind. Images look...not so sharp. Measured the bandwidth with all 4 images up at about 12Mbps - well within any threshold. And the pictures were popping and glitching and skipping like crazy. WTF?? And this is on a little isolated network. OK, now its back to the original setup. Same. Viewing now only thru the VMS (Milestone Essentials) Set a view on the Smart Client for only this camera. 5-7 second latency. Grab another stream via the web client - back to 10 seconds latency. And popping and glitching like you read about. This is why I always test a new camera or device in my shop first. New to me that is. Saves face. Saves time and potentially saves someones life ;) I vote NO CONFIDENCE!! I have 3 here. I will try another tomorrow, just in case. If its the same, back they go. If it works, I will update.
Keep any suggestions coming please. Thanks for the help.