Reyee RG-EG Gateway: CCTV-Ready Routing for UK Installers

Published: 2026-04-23 · Last updated: 2026-04-23 · By: Netview

The Reyee RG-EG gateway range is a line of cloud-managed routers from Ruijie Networks built for small and mid-size sites that run CCTV, VoIP, guest Wi-Fi and business data on the same link. For UK CCTV installers the appeal is simple: a single gateway gives you multi-WAN failover, IPSec/OpenVPN/L2TP, VLAN isolation for camera traffic, smart QoS for NVR streams, and free lifetime Reyee Cloud management — all commissioned from a phone. This guide maps the RG-EG105G-V3, RG-EG210G-P-V3, RG-EG310GH-E and the Wi-Fi 6 RG-EG105GW-X to real site sizes, explains when PoE on the router itself is worth paying for, and covers the remote-NVR access features that most installers actually care about.

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What is the Reyee RG-EG gateway range, and why does it matter for CCTV?

The Reyee RG-EG series is Ruijie’s cloud-managed small-business router line, engineered so a CCTV installer can deliver routing, firewalling, VPN and Wi-Fi from one appliance instead of stacking a cheap ISP router behind a consumer firewall behind a standalone VPN box. Ruijie describes the range as “all-in-one cloud-managed security routers” built for CCTV, enterprise, SOHO and hospitality deployments, with secure remote monitoring of NVR, IPC and internal-server traffic over dynamic or private WAN IPs (Ruijie Reyee — EG router overview). That last point is the one installers notice first: traditional P2P solutions like Hik-Connect already handle most remote viewing, but the RG-EG layers VPN-grade access on top so you can reach the NVR’s web UI, iVMS-4200 direct connect and ONVIF streams without opening ports on the customer’s firewall.

The whole range is managed from Reyee Cloud, free for life, which means a single Netview account can hold every customer site you ever commission with an RG-EG — firmware pushes, config backups, and alerting all centralised.

Which Reyee RG-EG gateway fits which CCTV site size?

Model selection on the RG-EG line is driven by three questions: how many concurrent sessions the site runs, whether you want PoE on the router itself, and whether you need Wi-Fi inside the box. The quick map for a CCTV-first install:

Site size	Recommended model	Concurrent devices	Why
Small retail / 4–8 camera home install	RG-EG105G-V3	Up to 100	5× gigabit, dual-WAN, runs IPSec/OpenVPN without breaking sweat
Small site that needs PoE on the router	RG-EG105G-P-V3	Up to 100	Same spec + 4 PoE ports — 2 cameras + 2 APs straight off the router
Small office + Wi-Fi 6 in one box	RG-EG105GW-X	Up to 100	AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 on-board — 2.976 Gbps peak radio throughput per Ruijie (RG-EG105GW-X product page)
16-camera site, 20–50 staff	RG-EG210G-P-V3	Up to 200	10 × gigabit, 8 × PoE, quad-WAN load balance
Multi-AP office without PoE needs	RG-EG210G-E	Up to 200	Same routing engine as the -P-V3 without PoE budget cost
Busy 32-camera site, VoIP + guest Wi-Fi	RG-EG310GH-E	Up to 300	Higher-performance silicon, 10× gigabit, multi-WAN SD-WAN
Same, with router-side PoE	RG-EG310GH-P-E	Up to 300	Adds 8× PoE+ at 110 W budget on the chassis
Multi-gig fibre customer	RG-EG406XS	500+	2.5GbE / 10G SFP+ for symmetric-gig broadband

The “up to” figures come from Ruijie’s published concurrency specs for each model — always keep a 20–30% headroom margin for CCTV sites because NVR → cloud backhaul and camera-to-cloud metadata sessions are persistent and long-running.

RG-EG105G-V3 vs RG-EG105G-P-V3: when PoE matters on a 5-port router

For 4–8 camera installs the decision is rarely about routing performance — it’s about whether you want the router itself to feed PoE to two or three devices so you can skip a small separate PoE switch. The non-PoE RG-EG105G-V3 gives you 5× gigabit ports and dual-WAN; the RG-EG105G-P-V3 adds four PoE ports with a 54 W budget — enough to power two fixed-lens IP cameras plus a pair of Reyee access points, or one mid-draw PTZ plus one camera, without a separate injector.

Where the PoE-on-router calculation falls down is any site with more than four PoE devices. At that point you’re far better spec’ing the non-PoE RG-EG105G-V3 plus a dedicated PoE switch such as the RG-ES118GS-P or the RG-ES216GC-V2 — you get a bigger PoE budget, higher per-port wattage headroom for future 4K cameras, and you protect the router from PSU overload.

RG-EG210G-E and RG-EG210G-P-V3: the 10-port workhorse for 16-camera sites

The RG-EG210G range is the sweet spot for a typical UK installer project — a 16-channel NVR, a dozen-plus cameras, some office PCs, a printer, a VoIP handset or two, and guest Wi-Fi. Both models give you ten gigabit ports with up to four configurable WANs for load balance or failover, policy-based routing, smart QoS, captive portal, and full VPN server/client modes (RG-EG210G-E product page). The RG-EG210G-P-V3 variant adds eight PoE ports so you can back-haul both cameras and access points off the router itself on smaller jobs.

For the 16-camera segment we always recommend pairing the router with a separate managed PoE switch anyway — the RG-EG210G-P-V3’s on-chassis PoE is handy for fallback capacity or extending a spur, but your primary camera uplinks belong on dedicated switching for current-carrying resilience and easier fault isolation.

RG-EG310GH-E and RG-EG310GH-P-E: high-performance routing for busy sites

Once a site pushes past around 32 cameras, 50 concurrent users, or starts running video-analytics uplinks to Hik-Central Pro or AcuSeek services, the routing silicon in the small models begins to sweat. The RG-EG310GH-E steps that up to a higher-performance platform with 10× gigabit ports, up to four configurable WAN interfaces and support for more simultaneous VPN tunnels — Ruijie publishes the full spec envelope on its RG-EG310GH-E product page. The RG-EG310GH-P-E variant adds an 8-port PoE+ block at 110 W budget for edge-fed devices.

Where the 310GH series really earns its keep is multi-service sites: CCTV on one VLAN, guest Wi-Fi on another, VoIP prioritised by QoS, staff data isolated, all while an always-on IPSec tunnel back to head office handles remote-monitoring traffic without the public-IP dependency.

How does Reyee Cloud make multi-site CCTV routing easier?

Reyee Cloud is the free lifetime management platform that lets an installer commission, monitor and update every RG-EG gateway they’ve ever deployed from a single pane, with no per-site licence. Installers we talk to report two big wins from using it. First, remote troubleshooting: you can pull a live topology view of the customer site, see which PoE ports are active, check WAN latency and push config changes without a van visit. Second, bulk firmware management: when Ruijie pushes a security update, you schedule the roll-out across every RG-EG you manage rather than touching each site individually.

For CCTV businesses that support customers on recurring monitoring contracts this is the operational advantage over generic routers — your RMR margin stops being eaten by call-outs for router reboots. If you want a deeper dive into the full Reyee router line, see our Reyee router range overview for specification comparisons across the line.

VPN, VLAN and QoS: what the RG-EG gateway does that a cheap router won’t

The three features installers most often retrofit onto budget ISP hardware — VPN, VLAN and QoS — are all first-class citizens on every RG-EG model. Reyee’s configuration guide confirms the RG-EG series supports IPSec, OpenVPN, PPTP and L2TP, with OpenVPN offering certificate-based, account-based or dual authentication for both remote-access and site-to-site topologies (Reyee EG VPN configuration reference — Visiotech KB). VLANs can be assigned per switch port directly on the router — useful when the customer has no managed switch of their own — and smart QoS prioritises VoIP, NVR streams and POS traffic over guest Wi-Fi at Layer 7.

In practice, the installer-friendly default is: camera VLAN 10 on the dedicated PoE switch, staff VLAN 20, guest VLAN 30, and an always-on IPSec tunnel back to head office for remote support. All of it is configurable from the Reyee Cloud web UI in under ten minutes per site.

Remote NVR access without port-forwarding: P2P and dynamic DNS handling

Every RG-EG model ships with Ruijie’s own dynamic DNS service and NAT traversal built in, which means you can expose an NVR’s web UI or RTSP stream to a remote viewer without asking the customer’s ISP for a static IP or opening inbound ports on the WAN. This is the single biggest reason UK installers switch customers away from ISP-supplied routers: the Reyee gateway behaves like a grown-up firewall while still giving remote-support tools the through-the-NAT access they need.

The workflow pairs neatly with Hikvision’s ecosystem — for day-to-day customer access, Hik-Connect P2P works untouched over the Reyee WAN; for installer-grade access to the NVR’s full admin UI, you fire up the VPN client (OpenVPN or L2TP/IPSec), authenticate once, and you’re inside the camera VLAN with iVMS-4200 direct-connect as if you were on-site.

FAQ — Reyee RG-EG gateway for CCTV installers

Do I need a separate PoE switch if I spec an RG-EG105G-P-V3?
Only if the site has more than four PoE devices or any high-draw PTZ. For a handful of cameras plus a Reyee access point, the router’s four PoE ports at 54 W total budget are sufficient. For anything bigger, pair the non-PoE RG-EG105G-V3 with a dedicated switch such as the RG-ES118GS-P and protect the router PSU from mixed-role loads.

Can I run multi-site VPN between two RG-EG gateways without a static IP at either end?
Yes. OpenVPN and IPSec site-to-site tunnels on the RG-EG series use Reyee Cloud as the rendezvous layer, so neither end needs a static public IP — the tunnel comes up as soon as both sites register to the same cloud account. Certificate-based OpenVPN is the installer default because Reyee Cloud handles the certificate exchange.

Does Hik-Connect still work behind a Reyee RG-EG gateway?
Yes, Hik-Connect P2P passes straight through RG-EG NAT with no configuration required — no port forwarding, no UPnP dependency. If you want to troubleshoot an NVR’s full admin UI remotely, the cleaner path is the RG-EG’s OpenVPN server rather than exposing the NVR over public IP.

Which RG-EG model should I spec for a 16-channel AcuSense NVR site?
The RG-EG210G-P-V3 is the right default: ten gigabit ports, eight PoE, dual-WAN for broadband failover, and enough session capacity for the cameras plus a modest office data load. Step up to the RG-EG310GH-E only if the site has 32 + cameras, heavy cloud analytics uplink or more than 50 concurrent users.

Is Reyee Cloud really free for the life of the unit, or is there a catch?
Ruijie publishes Reyee Cloud as a lifetime-free platform for all RG-EG hardware, covering config, firmware, monitoring and alerting with no per-site licence or subscription. There is no trial period, no device cap on an installer account, and no feature downgrade after a fixed term — the only licensed-upgrade path is if you later move to a full Ruijie commercial platform for a multi-branch SD-WAN deployment.

Where do I find the current firmware for an RG-EG router?
Reyee Cloud pushes firmware automatically, but you can also pull current builds from the ReyeeOS configuration portal. Ruijie publishes a current ReyeeOS 2.340 configuration guide that covers the full CLI and web UI workflow (ReyeeOS 2.340 configuration guide).

Order Reyee RG-EG gateways from Netview — same-day UK dispatch

Netview is an approved authorised wholesaler for Ruijie Reyee in the UK and we hold stock of the full RG-EG range in Leicester. Order online at netviewcctv.co.uk, or call the trade counter on 01163 800 838 for help spec’ing the right gateway against a specific CCTV project. For installers quoting multi-site deployments, we can ship matched-pair RG-EG gateways pre-registered to your Reyee Cloud account so you plug in and run.