I bought this wireless vid cam to set up as a monitor on the estate. I
finally got it working on my local network, more or less. The
instructions were horrible but some web surfing found semi-answers from
which my vast intellect was able to muddle through to getting something
other than the semi-lame windows-based interface it came with to work,
by trial and error on an address that various things liked. (Using VLC
on the mac, and in Firefox it actually spawns off a Quicktime window
that will show the vid, sometimes, somewhat).
I have not yet done the thing to get a static IP address for it (I did
sign up to dyndns.com and it shows me my IP address 74.181.162.57 and a
name for my acct that I picked, with a web address that is
xxx.dyndns.org, but nothing that looks like an actual IP address?) to
view over a remote browser. I will have to wrestle with that sometime soon.
I "think" when I put in my network 192.168.0.n address it is only seeing
it over the local wireless connection. Anyway, with a local network it
should use as much bandwidth it needs to send a nice clear picture,
right? I have one stream set for 1mbps (30frames/sec 640x480), one for
256kbps (30frames/sec 320x240), , and another one it doesn't say but it
is only 10 frames/sec 640x480 so it is probably somewhere in the
middle. Anyway, the stream shows considerable lag in the picture on the
screen showing what it is seeing, and a lot of motion artifacts that
sometimes just break up totally and the stream is hosed. The 256k
stream seems the most stable but even it gets motion artifacts and
breaks up. The camera is only about 15ft from the router and it is
getting a strong signal.
So what should I tweak here, or is that just sorta the way it is? I
kinda expected full high-res living color, at least when connecting over
my local network. I did have it cabled into the router and it seemed a
bit more stable.
--R
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