Cisco-Linksys Wireless-N Internet Home Monitoring Camera
June 17, 2010 by admin
Filed under Home Security Camera System
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Product Description
WIRELESS N INTERNET HOME WRLSMONITORING CAMERA… More >>
Cisco-Linksys Wireless-N Internet Home Monitoring Camera
This camera only works with the included software that only runs on Microsoft Windows. You have to install the junk on the CD. You should be able to do the initial configuration of the camera through the web interface. But you can’t. I had to install Microsoft Windows onto a spare computer to do the initial set up.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought two of these and that clogged up my wireless network, also gave me trouble constantly, had to unplug them so my wireless network would work normally. Spent over 40 hours with linksys support on the phone, and had the worst time trying to understand what they were trying to say, due to them having too mant marbles in their mouth. This will be the last and final time I ever purchase a POS linksys product ever again! Linksys is garbage!
Also wanted to add, if you plan on adding more then pone camera, better have a dual band router handy, i opted to go out and purchase more ethernet cables, but that still didn’t stop the cameras from giving me problems. Maybe Belkin will come out with ip cameras in the near future, I simply do not trust linksys for any of their products they sell. I once had a router by them which gave me problems, winded up stomping a mud hole in it and walking it dry. Went out and got a Belkin router and never had any problems with it.
I guess now I am going to have to look for another type of camera from a different brand to use. I need a camera to use as a baby monitor when my babies are born in 3 months.
Rating: 1 / 5
I purchased this camera to keep an eye on our vacation home when we are not there. The set-up seems easy enough, but what they don’t tell you is that it only really works well wirelessly if your router is a LINKSYS product as well, which of course, ours is not. The tech “support” is only available from 8 to 5 Eastern time, (we live on the WEST coast) and only Monday thru Friday! There is no actual free tech support, as they charge you $19.95 for that. I was forced to pay that initially when the “hosted” domain name would not work, and after paying the $19.95, had to undo everything the tech did. I was able to do some imaginative as well as lucky tweaking, and got it to work. Unfortunately, after the initial 90 day free trial period of the domain hosting is over, the remote function ceases to work. I logged back on today to sign up to pay for the TZO hosting of my domain name to access the camera remotely, and again…it does not work! And now I am on the hook for a year’s worth of hosting for an apparently non-existent domain name.
The ONLY pro to this waste of money is that when you can actually get it to work remotely, the picture quality is surprisingly good, as well as the audio.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this camera for the purpose of using it as a home network security camera and I was planning to buy three more. Overall, I find it to be a very bad choice and I am stuck with this under par camera.
The bad:
- It has some weird and loud noise in the recording. It may just be a defect but its bad for a first impression.
- After installing the software on my laptop, it crashes. For some reason it does not work on my old Dell Inspiron 700m laptop.
- The camera in DHCP mode does not work with the software provided. The software tracks the camera base on its IP address and as a result the software does not work when the ip address changes. What’s the purpose of having it support DHCP??
- It wasn’t a simple setup for me to have the camera only record when there is motion detection. Maybe I am just stupid.
- The camera periodically crashes!
- There were some bugs with setting multiple users in the web interface.
The good:
- I like how they have the ‘mobile’ version of the web interface.
- Very good picture in a dim room
- I like its ability to save directly to a file server but I haven’t tried it yet.
I had high hopes for this camera. Hopefully the next firmware release will make this camera great.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this camera to do security recordings. Set up is easy and the video is fair but you can not record with a MAC. I contacted Linksys and they were no help just “Sorry software does no work with a MAC”
I find a security camera that you can not record to be useless. If you own a MAC do not buy unless you want to sit in front of the computer all the time watch. Cisco must not realize how many millions of MAC’s are out here.
Rating: 2 / 5