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Pretty much any other IP camera? D-Link has a range.

pavel_lishin 10y ago
And that range dips down into the valley of crap. The smartphone software that came with the camera will frequently lock up, so it's nearly impossible to tell whether our baby is actually sleeping quietly or the image has just frozen. Ditto for the browser-based cloud garbage. I've resorted to just accessing the feed directly (via http://192.168.1.xx/video.cgi http://192.168.1.xx/video.cgi, which is a streaming jpeg) but that tends to lock up as well.
- knz 10y ago
  That has been my experience with foscam IP cameras as well. The UI was horrible, they routinely lost the static IP's I had assigned, and it reached the territory of being something that caused more stress than it was worth. The only appeal of Nest for me would be a potentially more reliable experience.
goldenkey 10y ago
Ive owned both dlink and a dropcams. The dlink cameras are absolute shit. Often disconnecting from wifi. Unable to handle the bandwidth to upload good quality video. Firmware and software along with admin web panel is absolute junk, poorly translated as if foreign contractors made it as hasty as they could. Dlink cameras are also cheap plastic crap and easily topple over. Dropcam has worked great for me even with Nest taking over. I have a server that I connected hackable cameras to, but multiple 1080p streams is not the easiest to handle affordably. As a hacker, even dropcam offers a pretty decently priced service for peace of mind. Dont get dlink tho whatever you do. EDIT: I should mention I even bought the mydlink Camera Video Recorder (DNR-202L) and what a heap of shit. Clogged up my LAN somehow, despite the fact that dropcams have 1080p and don't have any effect. Cameras often lost connection to the DNR-202, and the quality that it could support had to be severely downgraded. D-links solutions are atrocious. Please, save yourself the money and time. The dlink stuff is cheap for a reason -- and well, not all of it is even cheap. I bought the wide angle rotating cam and it ran me $200. And it was just as terrible as the little dinky $50 dlink cameras. Ugh.

And that range dips down into the valley of crap. The smartphone software that came with the camera will frequently lock up, so it's nearly impossible to tell whether our baby is actually sleeping quietly or the image has just frozen. Ditto for the browser-based cloud garbage. I've resorted to just accessing the feed directly (via http://192.168.1.xx/video.cgi http://192.168.1.xx/video.cgi, which is a streaming jpeg) but that tends to lock up as well.

knz 10y ago
That has been my experience with foscam IP cameras as well. The UI was horrible, they routinely lost the static IP's I had assigned, and it reached the territory of being something that caused more stress than it was worth. The only appeal of Nest for me would be a potentially more reliable experience.

goldenkey 10y ago

Ive owned both dlink and a dropcams. The dlink cameras are absolute shit. Often disconnecting from wifi. Unable to handle the bandwidth to upload good quality video. Firmware and software along with admin web panel is absolute junk, poorly translated as if foreign contractors made it as hasty as they could. Dlink cameras are also cheap plastic crap and easily topple over. Dropcam has worked great for me even with Nest taking over. I have a server that I connected hackable cameras to, but multiple 1080p streams is not the easiest to handle affordably. As a hacker, even dropcam offers a pretty decently priced service for peace of mind. Dont get dlink tho whatever you do. EDIT: I should mention I even bought the mydlink Camera Video Recorder (DNR-202L) and what a heap of shit. Clogged up my LAN somehow, despite the fact that dropcams have 1080p and don't have any effect. Cameras often lost connection to the DNR-202, and the quality that it could support had to be severely downgraded. D-links solutions are atrocious. Please, save yourself the money and time. The dlink stuff is cheap for a reason -- and well, not all of it is even cheap. I bought the wide angle rotating cam and it ran me $200. And it was just as terrible as the little dinky $50 dlink cameras. Ugh.