( 8 reviews )
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Posted: Aug 20 2008
I found that if it looses power while wireless. I would have to connect cable and reconfigure it. might work with dhcp but Imm always static. as using port 83. remember its an indoor camera. but worked good.
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Posted: Jul 22 2008
The original camera had an intermittent picture, and finally quit completely. It was replaced quickly and cheerfully by what must be the friendliest customer service rep on the Internet. The second camera has shown no faults in operation. I am doing surveillance on a driveway. The motion detector is so sensitive (pixel by pixel comparison?) that I am using the scheduled mode. The 320x240 resolution provides pretty good images that can be analyzed by slowing the playback. I have experienced some unexpected terminations of the surveillance file. The 640x480 mode gives a larger picture on playback, but a nearby car in sunlight apparently saturates the camera and the car literally disappears. Also, I have experienced 640x480 runs where no picture file is made. Hawking says that I don't have enough bandwidth and my IT weenie says that a 1500 mhz CPU with 324 mb RAM is not fast enough. The camera quits, due to lack of light, around sunset. Tech Support has been very responsive to my email queries as I learn how to use the camera. It is cabled into a PC, and I have no need for Internet access to images, nor for the wireless link. File sizes, per hour, are about 720 mb at low res and 240 mb at high res (due to 1/3 the frame rate at high res). In summary, it works for me. Would I buy another? Probably yes. Would I trust it to do 100% security surveillance? No
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Posted: Apr 2 2008
In spite of the bad reviews I thought I'd give it a try. It works for some people. But not for me. I could get an image through the ethernet cable much of the time, but not always. The browser interface had to be reset over and over, and the image often just disappeared. It would never remember my wireless settings and was never able to communicate wirelessly, even though the router was right next to it and the signal strength was "excellent". Hawking tech support answered several emails in one day, but he really had no idea why it didn't work. He gave me new firmware which didn't help and suggested turning off wireless security, which is not something I'm willing to do. It's too bad. The product has been out for quite a while. If it worked like they describe, it would be a great little gizmo.
