WIRELESS N INTERNET HOME WRLSMONITORING CAMERA
Cisco-Linksys Wireless-N Internet Home Monitoring Camera Features
- Authentication process requires a user name and password set by the camera's administrator
- Multifunctional surveillance system supports high-quality video and audio
- Stand-alone system with a built-in CPU, Web server and multiple video format compatibility
- High-performance network camera provides a low-cost, convenient solution for remote monitoring and home security
Price: $114.99
User Reviews about Cisco-Linksys Wireless-N Internet Home Monitoring Camera
This camera loaded very well on my Mac, but I was not able to use the program that comes on the CD to setup the camera and it's features. I guess I am not tech savvy enough to do it by myself and needed the guidance of the camera setting program. -- Not great with Macs
This camera works pretty well and for the most part was easy to set up. However I could not get the motion detect e-mail function to work. I spent hours on the phone with tech services and they finally decided the camera was bad and that I should have Amazon replace it (which Amazon did promptly and efficiently). That however did not help my problem. I spent another hour or so with tech services and they forwarded me to the secondary tech (a day or so later). This tech let me know that AT&T (my DSL provider) has port 25 blocked (for safety?). He said primary tech support should know about that but clearly they did not. I went to AT&T and got them to unblock port 25 and that sort of solved the problem. The test e-mail works but the motion detection only works occasionally.
Setting up remote viewing was extremely easy as was all the rest of the set up (except motion detect e-mail). The picture is decent. If the motion detect e-mail worked this would be a 5 star product in my mind. I use it along with a self installed security system that dials me when entry is detected for when I am out of town. I have the camera and my router/modem on a UPS so that they work even if the electricity is out. When I am home, I can easily set it up to monitor the front door (or the back yard). Theoretically you can set up more than one camera to monitor multiple locations in the house.
The camera that I got only works on 2.4 gig wireless N. I would have preferred it to work on the 5 gig wireless N but I guess you can't have everything. -- Almost great
video is clear and good for the purpose I used it for, which is monitoring alarm LEDS at a remote tower site -- cislinkcam
Overall a good product for what I paid. I was able to install it running local in less than 15 minutes. Installation is very easy. However, I never saw the static domain registration with TZO. It is supposed that this comes embedded in the camera with a free 90 days subscription. So it was a hassle figuring how to make it stream over Internet. I have a Mac and Airport Extreme. I was pretty sure the problem was related to the router. Still, I call Linksys support hoping for them to solve the problem. Spoke with someone in India and there was a lot of noise in the line. They basically didn't help me and told me to contact my router's company. To make a long story short, after some research, I figured that I had to forward/map the camera port (80/1024) I did this and also setup a free static IP with [...] . Everything works perfectly and I'm happy. However for MACs it doesn't have the nice interface that the Windows version has. So far I been using the web interface with no problems.It is not a plug and play product and the technical support is poor but it is very good and inexpensive product. -- Easy to install but could only configure it through the web interface in MAC
