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I have this and love it. We use it as a monitor for our youngest. It works great. The night vision is excellent. The sound a color reproduction are greatly improved over the 8918. My only complaint is that it does not have full duplex audio. It works like a walkie talkie. When I talk, I cannot hear her.
# I own 2 of these. It is impressive and wireless. I wish it had a zoom feature.
A review from a user, "OK the good news is it sorta works. But the static ip address goes through a relay in China and it only works when it feels like it. I've also notice what I suspect is suspicious activity of the pan activity occasionally. Like I'm not panning the camera so who's watching? I'm trying to find another static ip provider here in the US but it's a bit pricey and a little complicated to configure. I would not recommend this product because of the static ip issues. " does anyone experience something like this?
^ I do not know what the guy is talking about, sounds like he needs to make his password stronger or block the China subnets on his router. Be aware that the hardware and firmware is the same for any of these lower end IP cameras. With a low price comes a trade off. I have two of the 8910 and I just set up port forwarding on my router to access the camera remotely. I block any conversations from the camera to the Internet. I use iSpy to record video.
The safest system is for cameras hard wired (NOT Ethernet) back to a receiver/DVR, not IP or wireless.
I install these cameras as well as some other brand IP Cameras. Really you just need to maximize the software that comes preloaded on the cameras. They all accept manual CGI commands that would allow you to disable to DNS Service that comes preloaded. Then use a 3rd party application such as Blue Iris, IP Cam Viewer Pro, Tiny cam, Icam (Pc, Android, iOS apps)
CGI Commands IP Cameras: http://www.foscam.es/descarga/ipcam_cgi_sdk.pdf
NOTE: These will apply to most if not ALL IP Camera Brands.
I have installed 1000's of these Foscams and other brands in various business and private use and have yet to have ONE single intrusion problem. Just educate yourself properly on how to configure and manage these and integrate them into a SECURE network.
As #5 mentions, you should hardwire to a dvr/reciever first. Also think about adding a VPN to your network, and creating your own static IP addresses for the cameras and port forward in your router yourself. It is easy and there are plenty of search results on Google to back this all up.
I would order them through Amazon though as you will have the service backing of Amazon and the price difference is 10 or so from this price point. Enjoy