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 It's Ok August 27, 2010
Don
I purchased these for a company I work for to be installed at all of the remote locations. They fit within the budget and had features that were asked for. However: I have rated this product at a middle (3 star - It's Ok) rating due to several factors. I do want to say that for the price/features it seems to work great.
Reasons for my rating:
* Would like to see better quality image.
* Secure View (the software that comes with it) lacks a few features that are within the admin area of the camera itself and are very useful tools.
* Lack of instructions for a more advanced set up.
* Sound quality: These camera were installed in a store/retail environment and due to the different sounds within this environment, the built in mic leaves a little to be desired. It has a difficult time filtering out background noise. Might be ok in a less noisy environment.
Configuration where cameras were installed:
* WiFi network Dlink routers
* High speed internet (cable or DSL 4Mbs/768K) Found it to be slow and jerky in the slower locations, we have upgraded our ISP to accommodate the cameras eating up the bandwidth.
* Configured camera with static IP/Web address (DynDNS). I would highly recommend this! can be a little cumbersome to a non-IT person, but Trendnet support was helpful (it may take a little time, so have some time to work with support).
All in all my experience with these cameras was a little frustrating in the beginning and the setup, but once I understood what Trendnet was looking for I was able to configure the others very easily with very little problems.
I would recommend this camera to someone who wants to watch their home or a single office space (1000sf and under), etc...
Hopefully my review helped in some way. Good Luck!
 Didn't work out for me (Wireless a complete failure, wired a horrible laggy experience) August 27, 2010
R. Harrison (Stephenville, TX United States)
I bought this IP camera based on the reviews, although it had it's share of negative feedback. However, overall, it looked promising. Well.... after 3 hours of dinking with it, it got returned to Amazon. I AM technically inclined, but getting this camera to work smoothly with my setup( Cradlepoint MBR1000 router and computer wih Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit) was beyond my ability. I never got it to work wirelessly. The webpage would just hang after changing the wireless configurations to work with my router. The router would give it an IP address by the way and the camera would blip in and and out existence on the router's wireless devices list. Even when wired, it was SOOOOO laggy that is was unusable. Anyway, maybe it didn't like Cradlepoint, maybe it didn't like Vista 64 (although I would think this wouldn't be a problem since it works by IP access through Internet Explorer), but after 3 hours of wasted time, I didn't like it! Just my experience for your consideration.
 Great Camera!!! August 21, 2010
B. Harvey (Chattanooga, TN USA)
I am giving this an overall rating of four stars for two reasons. The first one is because they don't tell you to get a strong wireless router. I had a Linksys (I am not knocking the Linksys brand) WRT120N which is not near as strong a signal to run multiple devices but i did not know that at first with this camera. This camera takes up some bandwidth so get a good quality router such as the D-Link DIR-655 N+300. This router works wonders with this camera and several devices within the home. The other reason is because the average user may not be able to set this camera up for wireless. The instructions to set them up for wireless for the average person is located here: [...]. They are using a Trendnet router but if you know what you are doing this is simple to set up for any other router. It took me about 30-45 minutes to set up. I am a Systems Administrator so this was not difficult to set up for me but it may be for others.
One great thing about the user interface is once it is setup for other people to use you can create multiple users in different groups and the guest view does not let them move the camera. The only thing that the guest users can do is look at the current view of the camera and listen to the audio. You can turn that audio off if you do not want anyone to listen in. This camera also has a auto patrol option that can be changed as far as time intervals go. You can set each of the eight options to move between 1-999 seconds per location when using the auto patrol option. It has 8 different patrol options that can be changed and renamed. You can pan and tilt manually also.
Overall this camera does exactly what I bought it for. My wife wanted a way to view our son from work. The user interface is very simple to operate. Most of the settings can be changed remotely if needed, the picture quality is great during the day and at night, and the setup for users is great. I would recommend this camera and company to anyone wanting basic security options around the house or for the use of a baby cam.
Pros: Ease of use, picture quality day/night, pan/tilt options, remote manage, and user setup.
Cons: I can't think of anything
Good but not great. August 9, 2010
D. Morse (Galveston, TX United States)
When I first installed the camera (via wired as instructions suggest), I couldn't get the wireless feature to work. Ends up I had to reboot my wireless router. I've never had to do that with any other wireless device I've installed. Once I rebooted the router, I could connect to the camera via wireless.
The sound quality is good. It can pick up the slightest of noises. The video quality is pretty washed out in anything but a brightly lit room. (in nightmode or not) Pretty much dark colors look gray, sometimes even purple. But the night mode makes up for it. This thing sees pretty well in the dark.
I can view it over the internet and control it. That is really a plus. And if you hook speakers up to it, you can even communicate with anyone around the camera. Good for when I have to yell at the dog to not pee in the room or the cat to get off my desk. (it has a built-in microphone, but needs speakers to talk back)
The instructions could be a bit better and give more examples of the settings. I did have to contact TRENDnet's support when I couldn't get the wireless to work. They were a little slow to answer but they did try to help me. I figured the problem out on my own though.
It can be set to motion detect on a schedule and send an email alert. If you plug in a NAS (network attached storage) device to your network you can have this camera record video to it. (Or to your computer)
Pretty good camera features for the price. (Wait until Amazon has them for $149.99 again) :)
IP Camera August 8, 2010
Dave
Great little unit. We were very pleased. Day video quality is very good, though the night vision is lacking. I plan on buying more of these.
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