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The camera's are great compared to their little brother the DCS-2100+. I have over 5 years working with D-Link products and have even written software for D-Link cameras.
This is a great product at a even greater price. I see a lot of complaints online but I think most of the issues are user based.
I just purchased and setup 6 of these for a customer. Stick with a good D-Link Switch and router and everything will work flawlessly.
Buy it now.Chris FieldsGrantsville, UT I used 2 1TB HDD's in Raid 1 and 2x80 gig drives also in raid 1 so I had some good redundancy.
The software on the D-Link website is great, you must download it.
The software wizards have you up and running in minutes. It sends me email alerts when it detects motion in the covered video area, which is my driveway. But I really haven't had a need to export video from the supplied software application.The software that comes with the system is great. The video quality is great, you can read license plates very easily, and can take snapshots from the videos or export the files to avi format.
I bought this camera after an incident at my house while I was at work. You can even access live video from your camera over the internet - also real easy to set up and access.I plan to purchase an additional camera to monitor the back side of my house.The optional weatherproof outdoor housing unit is of good quality and is recommended for outside use. You can monitor one camera or 16. Luckily a neighbor witnessed the incident and helped me recover damages, but I realized that I needed something to watch over my property when I was not at home.This camera has proven to be a great match for my needs.
One minor complaint is that the exported avi format isn't as good as the source format. The system has been up and running continuously for almost 6 months now with no problems. I have it set up to record to my computer hard drive. I can easily review the video of anyone who drives down my driveway and what they do in front of my house.
That worked the first time. D-Link said to downlowd v3.20. Camera and the web interface work well. But, I had problems with the management software.
I have it in an outside enclosure recording a parking lot. I gave mine a dedicated 300gig drive to put its recordings on. I paid ~$50 under retail for this on some special deal. I tried a Leadtek capture card with Linux Zoneminder, but the quality wasn't very good. When recording, this thing eats up alot of disk space. I couldn't make out a person's face on camera at ANY distance. The 10/100 is a very good feature of the product.
It is setup to handle 16 of these cameras without any problems - so scaling up is no problem in the future. The management interface and program is very good.
The image quality was horrible. The C-CS mount is good because I plan on getting a zoom lens for ~50 dollars to zoom into certain things.
I wasn't going to spend retail price on it, as I'm on a budget.I've tried many other units, as I setup a DVR on the parking lot in front of my apartment. The night vision is very poor when in low-light, but that can be expected.
All-in-all, it offers more than I need, which is exactly what I need.If I can find a need for another in the future, I'll buy another. For camera, I used a Q-See infared 420line outdoor b/w camera, with very bad results.
The only perk was the night-vision was decent - maybe good if you're ONLY watching for large objects moving.Okay on the DCS-3220, I'm very happy with it.
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