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The second one will at least show a picture, but sometimes it likes to ignore web requests. I've tried two of these units now, and neither of them work. The first wouldn't even get to where it's webserver was running and their tech support was useless. Plus they seem to try to make it hard for you. It's very non-intuitive and has alot of things hard coded that shouldn't be.I guess this is an alright BASIC camera, but don't expect it to be able to do anything cool at all.
At 320x240 i can't really make out a face more than 15 ft away, but a person moving at 10 ft alway causes the video to become choppy. I tested a DCS-2000 out as a security camera for my small retail store. I upgraded the firmware to 1.07 and IP surveillance to 2.12. I guess this system is good for areas where there are not much movement and where there is no need to have a clear image to ID a unknown person. The software and idea of this system is good, but that is about all that is good about this system.
The Axis is more expensive, has poorer software and is a royal pain to set up and configure.The D-Link, while suffering some low light issues, is a snap to configure and update, simple to set up as a live web-cam or security cam. Well, I chose to ignore the blatant Axis commercial someone put here as a review. I own the D-link 2000 and the Axis. It's included security software is great. I actually now have 6 D-link cameras set up as door monitors, security, and to watch the dog (seems to be a popular use - what do we expect them to do, dance).Bottom line - not a better bang for the buck.
Apex) will cost you quite a bit more.Couple knocks that kept me from giving it 5 stars - the email notification stuff (Which works with just the logic built into the camera itself) doesn't fire off reliably. I have both the wired and the wireless versions of the 2000 series in my house and I've been pretty pleased with them. About 1 in 4 events did not result in email - however those same events always recorded with the video survalence software. It's very easy to setup and get the basics working - I had a little trouble figuring out how to get my Linksys router to forward requests from outside the firewall to the correct camera but that has more to do with me being a bonehead than anything else.I like the video survalence software quite a bit, the motion detection stuff is slick, easy to use and works well. Similiar feature sets on other cameras (i.e. Their on line knowledge base/support pages are kinda weak (no searching capability). The picture could be better for outdoors - I'm looking into alternative CS lenses to see if I can improve it.Over all those are minor knocks on what is really a great product over all.
I can vouch for the motion detection since not just the front door is in view of the camera. If you focus this just right you can do a whole lot of good for the image quality. we select the area of what the camera can see for motion detection. We have it setup to send an image to an FTP server everytime someone comes to the front door of our office. We don't get a whole lot of traffic, so it works out ok. and have it upload an image when it sees movement within that area of what we designate.This is all very simple to figure out and worth the short time it takes to set up. Our company is glad we purchased it and will likely invest in another if we ever need another camera or a new one.
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