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D-Link DCS-900 10/100TX Internet Camera, Home Security | 
| Brand: D-Link
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $76.89
You Save: $23.10 (23%)
New (28) Used (1) Refurbished (1) from $76.89
Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 1553
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Compact design with Integrated Web Server | | • | View up to 4 cameras on one screen | | • | Web-based Remote Access Using any Java Enabled Browser | | • | Archive and record streaming video to hard drive | | • | Bundled software for Multi-Camera Monitoring and Management |
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Product Description
The DCS-900 is the latest addition to D-Link's Internet Camera family of products. The DCS-900 Internet Camera combines the functionality of video surveillance with the reliability and scalability of Fast Ethernet. With its compact, all-in one design, the DCS-900 is a low cost remote monitoring solution and ideal for home use.The DCS-900 connects quickly and easily to your existing Fast Ethernet network and a setup wizard guides you through the set up process to get you up and running in a matter of minutes.The DCS-900 features a built-in web server, which means that you don't need to have computer to stream video images directly to the Internet. Video images captured by the DCS-900 can be viewed remotely by typing an IP address into a Web browser. With its easy-to-use Web-based interface, the DCS-900 can be managed and configured from anywhere in the world.The included Windows-based software provides even more features, allowing you to archive streaming video straight to your hard drive and monitor up to 4 cameras on a single screen.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 30 more reviews...
 Easy Setup But A Little Bit of Effort for Web Access December 21, 2004
S. Lee (Tiverton, RI USA)
80 out of 81 found this review helpful
I bought this camera as a means to check my house while I am gone on vacation. I never heard of internet cameras before until recently while looking at PC catalogs. I ended up buying the DCS-900 because of the price and the good reviews I read here in Amazon.com. Let me tell what my experience has been so far.
Getting the camera setup on your local LAN is fairly straightforward. As long as you know the IP address of your router and how to do simple network configuration for the camera, you should be up and running in 10 minutes.
On the otherhand, configuring the camera for access from the web took me 2 days of searching for info on the Internet, emails to D-Link technical support, firmware upgrade for my router and constant rereading of the manuals and the D-Link Knowledge Base. Listen carefully because here's what they don't tell you about the product beforehand if you want access your camera from the web.
1) Camera's default port is 80. If you have Cable or DSL broadband, most ISPs do not allow access to port 80 to discourage their customers from setting up webservers on their network. You have to set the camera to some other port like 800 or so.
2) You must be comfortable with setting up your router and understand how port forwarding and virtual server table works. If you have a firewall, then you must make more configuration changes. Make sure you access to your broadband router and you feel comfortable making these changes. D-Link documentation only reference their own routers as examples.
3) If your broadband connection has Dynamic IP addressing which most cable and DSL subscribers do, you have to set up a Dynamic DNS account with services like DynDNS.org or TZO.com. There, you create a DNS address (i.e. - www.myname.com) that will map to the dynamic address of your broadband connection. The software on camera will perform updates to the Dynamic DNS for you if your IP address changes.
4) You will also need a static web service account for the ActiveX Xplug Control software to be located when accessing the camera. Essentially this is a place where you can host webpages onto for access from the Internet. My geocities.com account prevents me from uploading the xplug.ocx file onto the server w/o an upgrade to a premium account at this time.
5) Make sure your router has the latest firmware to support virtual servers. This was the last step that prevented me from making the camera visible on the net.
Soooo....after all these steps, I was very successful in getting my camera up and running just the way I want it. I think this is a great product and I highly recommend it. You do have to have a little bit of network experience to comfortably configure everything.
I can not give it the full five stars because I think the documentation was fairly lacking when it comes to describing what you need to do to set the camera up for Internet access. As a matter of fact, even the description for the camera setup itself was somewhat vague and very terse. However, once you get pass all that, I am happy to say that it all works well!!
Photo quality isn't great, but good value September 18, 2004
Stephen Britton (Larchmont, NY USA)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I wanted to monitor a construction project in my apartment courtyard, but could not take time off from work. I decided to hook up a Internet camera to my cable modem so I could watch the progress from my desk. After some research I wound up buying the D-Link DCS-900. It was by far the least expensive camera, but it suited my purpose.
I set it up in a window overlooking the project and I was able to watch the workers rebuild the flagstone courtyard. On several occasions, I saw mistakes and was able to call the contractor on his cell phone. I know the project would not have turned out as well as it did if I didn't have this camera.
As others have pointed out, the photo quality is grainy and it will only work in well-lit areas, but if you don't want to empty your wallet, this is a great camera for the price.
The proof is the pudding. Here's my pudding. January 14, 2005
Thomas W. Clark (Sugar Land, TX)
16 out of 19 found this review helpful
The DCS-900 is a cost effective network camera accompanied by a bad manual and backed up by friendly tech support people with tunnel vision.
We have 3 cameras and decided to put one of them on the Internet. Well to do that D-Link offers and ActiveX and a JAVA solution. We tried to tell them the JAVA solution was too slow for motion. Their Answer... Our network makes the camera slow. The fact the ActiveX solution is fast was ignored.
See a camera in operation at http://tclark.com/SecurityCam.asp and review the ActiveX and JAVA solution for yourself.
Not too bad, not too good October 9, 2005
Stephen P. Horbachuk (West Hartford, CT)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Pros
Built in webserver
Reliable
Good Value
Good quality in good lighting
Cons
Hard to configure for novice users (was easy for me)
Heavy on system resources when recording video to hard drive
Picture quality is every grainy in low light
easy setup, picture not great March 12, 2004
Thomas B. Gross (Winchester, MA USA)
10 out of 15 found this review helpful
The quality of the video deteriorates dramatically in bad light.In broad daylight the image is just ok - not really any better than any number of cheaper, wired webcams. The main feature is the fact that it is wireless, which means you can set it up anywhere within range of your wireless router (I have a Dlink router but it really shouldn't matter - the instructions provided pertain to the camera's IP address on your LAN: 192.168.0.20). The great thing about this configuration is that you don't have to leave a computer on to put video from your LAN onto the internet. When it works, it's great. To make the camera visible from the web (outside of your LAN) you need to follow the directions for setting it up behind a router, on the manual that is provided on the CD. The reviewer who couldn't get tech support for this (doesn't surprise me) evidently didn't notice this CD-based manual. Basically you need to map whatever IP address your provider (in my case Comcast) is currently mapping to your cable modem, and then on to the camera. After a couple of days, the camera does seem to hang a lot for no apparent reason. I really wish I knew if the more expensive Dlink wireless cameras are worth the extra money, because I love the idea of wireless cameras that are always on, communicating directly with the wireless router, connected to a cable modem, which are always on.
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