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(More customer reviews)I am an experienced IT guy, but this camera has me tearing my hair out! First, a major warning: the spec sheet states that the camera can take 640x480 pics. This is NOT TRUE - the maximum available resolution is 320x240.
The wireless interface is buggy and cumbersome to work with, and when I tried to set it up it not only crashed the camera several times, it crashed my entire wireless network. Thinking that a D-link 624+ WLAN router might work better with it than my Netgear, I tried that too and got the same crashes. I even saw the radio communication from the camera forcing the router to reset itself - how's that for interoperability?
Finally, after fiddling with every possible setting (few of which are explained in the manual) and trying various WLAN channels (no, the camera does not auto-detect, you have to set the channel manually which also often causes a crash) I got it to work, just about. Now the brand-new D-link router is acting up instead *sigh* and loses connection to the net.
Further, the camera can send images by ftp or e-mail, but not both at the same time.
I highly recommend going with some other brand, and using a standard network camera together with an ethernet-WLAN dongle instead of a combined product. That way you can also test WLAN connectivity with a computer before setting up your camera.
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The DCS-2100+ Wireless Internet Camera is a powerful surveillance system designed for homes and small businesses looking for a cost effective way to provide remote video and audio. The DCS-2100+ is an 802.11b compatible wireless network camera that includes a built in Web server allowing users to easily access and manage the camera via a Web browser and offers a built-in microphone to add the element of sound. The included software allows users to archive streaming video to a hard drive, search and playback stored video, monitor as many as 16 cameras on a single screen, and set up motion detection to trigger automatic recording or email alerts.
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