Estate? I thought you were one of us, not landed gentry. I'll try to be more respectful.
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Rich Thomas < richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > 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 > > ______________________________**_________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives > http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/<http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.com<http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
