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| D-Link DCS-900 10/100TX Home Security Internet Camera | 
 enlarge | Brand: D-Link
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 13224
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 4 x 7 x 3
MPN: DCS-900
Model: DCS-900
UPC: 790069262012
EAN: 0790069262012
ASIN: B0000CEPC0
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great IP camera for the price April 22, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was looking for inexpensive IP cameras to be used in video surveillance for our company. The fist cam I bought is the TV-IP100 by TrendNet. The second cam was the DCS-900.
The first thing I noticed was that the lens piece, mounting bracket, power supply, and even the backlabel looked awfully similar. The browser-based configuration is also nearly identical, with one notable exception: the DCS-900 lacks the "Anti-flicker" option, which caused significant image detirioration in certain places inside the office (dark waves would slowly travel up the image).
I liked the DCS-900's form factor better, so I decided to take the risk, and flash the DCS-900 with IP100's firmware. Surprisingly, it worked! So now the DCS-900 seems to think that it's actually an IP100, and it has the "anti-flicker" option.
The image quality of both cameras is nearly identical, the image is very noisy in a dark (or low-light) environment, to the point where it trips the motion sensor even at the lowest (least sensitive) setting. When used in a well-lit environment, the image quality is very good.
The cameras will be used with Linux-based video recording software (Zoneminder).
Vitaliy
Fine for the price March 9, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Overall this is a good camera for the price... emphasis on "for the price". We purchase the camera to provide very basic remote monitoring and it does that well. Specifically a maintenance team logs in from home to check snow/ice accumulations in winter and make decisions regarding plowing or closing the campus. As with any low-end digital camera, this one struggles in low light, so we added a flood light to illuminate it's view area at night. Setup of the camera was pretty straight forward, and there are a number of handy options for adjusting the image settings and frame rate. There are also plugins for live viewing in either Microsoft or non-Microsoft browsers. Overall, it's a great little camera for what you're paying.
 Very poor customer support from D-link for DCS-900 February 27, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this camera just before Christmas, still have not gotten it to work, it is now almost March 2007. The customer support is very very poor, they hang up on you if you ask a technical question. The sofware that comes with the camera is useless unless you plan on using the camera within your network. I would stay away from this product at all cost. I have contacted customer support 8 x, still no luck, I get a different answer each time and they refuse to help if your product has to interface with a another brand of product. They tell you to contact the other manfacturer for help. Stay far away !!!!
Good product, poor information January 11, 2007
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
This camera worked very good for local viewing, but the information supplied with it was very poor. The information supplied with the camera said you could access the camera remotely through the internet, which is true if you are a high tech internet person. It never says that you need a permanant IP address which very few people have and need to pay the business connection rate.
DON'T BUY UNLESS YOU ARE A DNS / NETWORK EXPERT December 21, 2006
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
D-LINK CUSTOMER SUPPORT IS WORTHLESS. UNLESS YOU ARE A NETWORK ENGINEER YOU WILL NEVER GET ALL THE FUNCTIONS (E.G. INTERNET VIEWING) TO WORK. ALSO , ANY PROBLEMS ......LOTSA LUCK WITH D-LINK TELEPHONE SUPPORT. I REALLY TRIED TO LIKE THIS UNIT AND BOUGHT MULTIPLES OF THEM ... AFTER MANY , MANY , MANY HOURS OF FRUSTRATION, THEY ARE GOING ON EBAY. IF YOU WANT "A LIFE" OTHER THAN BEING ON HOLD AND BEING HUNG UP ON AND SPEAKING TO PEOPLE THAT DON'T GIVE A SxxT ABOUT YOU OR YOUR SATISFACTION ..THEN BUY D-LINK. IF YOU VALUE YOUR TIME ...GET ANOTHER BRAND. NUF SAID .
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