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| Linksys Wireless Internet Camera with Audio | 
 enlarge | Brand: Linksys
Category: CE
List Price: $295.99
Buy New: $231.99
You Save: $64.00 (22%)
New (40) Used (1)
Avg. Customer Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 241
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Native Resolution: 640 x 480, 320 x 240, 160 x 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 9.5 x 4.3
Warranty: Mfr warranty: 1 year
MPN: WVC200
Model: WVC200
UPC: 745883569045
EAN: 0745883569045
ASIN: B000I2JBC8
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Nice camera March 26, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this camera to check on my apt while I am working. So far I am quite satisfied with it. Setting up the remote internet access is a bit tricky, but - I guess- it is always like that with these gadgets. I have a "standard" wireless network at home (w/ a Gateway 2wire router).
To do so, in brief, you have to open a new channel in your network firewall. This includes a port forwarding of the camera to a channel other than 80 (like 1024).
I am also using a linksys software (sololink) to track the dynamic IP address of the camera on the web, but you can use other freeware softwares for that, as well.
Pan/tilt function is great, color is OK. I'll try w/ an IR soon
In concluson this is a great camera for this price.
Linksys Wireless-G PTZ WVC200 March 8, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
It presents/displays many problems for its configuration, for example so that messengers of yahoo works like camara Web in hotmail
Since I can make to use Linksys Wireless-G PTZ Internet Camera with Audio WVC200 - Network camera - pan / tilt - color ( Day&Night ) - audio - 10/100, 802.11b, 802.11g - DC 5 V, like webcam in messengers of yahoo and hotmail
 Wireless doesn't work, picture quality is poor. March 5, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I spent two days and couldn't get the wireless to work. With the camera configured using wired ethernet cable, the unit worked fine. Picture quality is poor and doesn't work in low light. I used two infrared light sources and the camera doesn't pick up a picture. PTZ is kind of cool, but it doesn't provide any value if you can't get a decent picture.
 Nice idea ... technology is too new ... wait on this purchase January 30, 2007
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
The concept is nice ... 802.11g camera. However there are some fundamental flaws with the design.
The streaming of the video is too heavy-weight for the 802.11g. A simple ping shows hops in excess of 800ms. As soon as I stop streaming, it is about 16ms ... which means the cams processor is overloaded.
The stream is very choppy.
As for pan / tilt ... only works 25% of the time. The video always streams (which means there is connectivity), but when I issue pan/tilt commands, only 25% of the time does it respond to my commands.
I bought this as a toy ... to put in the front window to see who is there, while I am working in my home office. I don't see how someone would / could use this for practical monitoring. The picture is very choppy, not very clear, and doesn't respond to commands.
Considering Linksys is owned by Cisco ... this hit the market without any real quality assurance. This is hardly useable.
2 thumbs down. Come'on Cisco ... get your act together. You are leaving room for someone to come in and do it better. I will be returning this, and may buy the panasonic.
 Troublesome but there are work arounds December 29, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I tried these cameras right out of the box and experienced the same troubles others are having. But I came up with a work around.
The first thing you need to do is straighten the antenna completely. Do not use the 45 and 90 degree catches.
On my router/ap... I installed ddwrt on my linksys wrt54gl and increased the transmit power on the router from 28 to 50 and set the router to reboot itself every morning at 4:00am.
On each camera I bought a $5 appliance timer at the hardware store. (the one's people use to have their lights turn on and off when they aren't home) and plugged the cameras in to the timers. Then set the timer to shut the camera off at 4:00am and turn itself back on a few minutes later.
A nice low tech fix. Everything is 100% rock solid now. Of course I had to jump through a couple of hoops to get everything working but hey, these things are cheap for what you are buying. I have not had a single problem with the cameras in months after the timers and router reboot were in place.
Yes they are troublesome but are perfectly reliable with a little ingenuity. I would have given it 5 stars if it could push the images to an FTP server at a faster rate than 2 an hour.
Also, I wish it was able to stream the video so I could embed it in a page using media player or quicktime. ohh well.
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