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• 1 Orders

  Superb little camera. Supports common encryptions, uPnP, DDNS, and PPPoe. It even syncs its timestamp clock to a NIST server!

  My favorite part is the alarming functionality. Movement of a configurable amount, independantly set in up to four quadrants, triggers an alarm. The alarm can capture a video clip to a file through Internet Explorer, FTP still shots to a server, email still shots, and even what looks like an HTTP post (though I haven’t played with that yet). I haven’t explored all the features, but everything I’ve used has worked perfectly. And this is ALL without any external capture software!

• 2 Crowley

  I was looking for a reliable 802.11 wireless monitoring camera. I tried two other brands. One would need rebooting every few hours to keep it functional. The video quality on the other was poor.
  I decided to try Sharx camera, after reading the reviews on Amazon.
  I have been using this camera for a week now. It didn’t need rebooting like the other brand. The picture quality is amazing as compared to other two brands that I tried.
  Cons:
  The manual may be little a difficult for someone not very familiar with computers. But I believe this is overcome by the excellent customer support.
  Pros:
  Excellent Video Qaulity.
  Reliable Motion Detection.
  Excellent Customer Support.
  Good integration with free dynamic dns, for accessing it from outside (linksys required paid service)
  Email from Gmail SMTP server using port 465 (Not possible with the other two brands that I tested)
  Moonlight mode for night video
  Overall a very well balanced and reliable camera.

• 3 Lowenstein

  Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3ITTPMBZ9UCU0 I purchased this camera mainly to use with my Smart Phone. It was easy to setup and can now view live video on my phone or any of my PC’s.

  I use this camera mainly to view wildlife behind my house. I have motion detector flood lights that light up the area at night, so I normally don’t need the Moonlight Mode, although it does work great in low light.

  The attached video was taken at night without using the Moonlight Mode. I’ll attach another video showing what a video looks like with Moonlight Mode turned on.

  This is an amazing camera and has a very sharp picture. I do wish it had an external mic jack like my SCNC2601. The audio is much louder and more sensitive when using an external mic. An external mic jack is on my wish list for the next smart phone supported model.

  Comparing this camera to my SCNC2601, I would say the SCNC2606 has a sharper picture but I do like the SCNC2601 for it’s Pan and Tilt capabilities and its external mic and speaker jacks. Both are great cameras and work great locally or over the internet.

• 4 Updyke

  After researching and trying other options for monitoring my newborn daughter’s nursery, I chose the 2606 because it offers a wide variety of features for an affordable price. Combining a wide angle lens, a low light setting (be sure you enable the “moonlight” setting to get maximum performance), and several simultaneous streaming options including some with two-way audio, the 2606 is a very versatile camera. Unlike some other wireless IP cameras, the 2606 offers several levels of encryption including WPA2-PSK which was a huge selling factor for me. Another HUGE selling factor for me was the cross platform compatibility since my primary system is a Fedora Linux machine. One thing to note on this point is that the included software is Windows only but it’s only used for the initial setup of the camera (really it just scans your network to determine the IP address of the camera). However, all you really need to know after you plug the camera in is what IP address was assigned to it. Once you know the IP address, all settings can be set through a web browser regardless of platform. After installing the included software, simply plug the camera into your router and run the software and your camera will be automatically detected (again if you know how to determine the camera’s IP address then you don’t even have to install the software). The camera also has built-in motion detection and alarming capabilities so you can be notified via several options such as e-mail whenever motion is detected in view of the camera. If you’re looking for a great wireless camera and you don’t need total darkness vision (if you do check out the 2607), then the 2606 is a really nice camera which offers plenty of technology for a reasonable price.

• 5 Orliss

  Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2MMRHQ2WX4EEC This camera has excellent picture quality, even when light level is low. This video was taken vedry late afternoon on a cloudy day, and with the “moonlight mode” it looks almost like a bright day, except motion gets blurred. If there is more light the motion is clear with 30 frames per second.

• 6 Hodge

  Fun camera to have, We got it for security reasons, but are enjoying watching the nightlife around here. seeing much more than we expected. Footage is very clear. If I could give 10 stars for customer service, I would, They spent countless hours helping me set it up for viewing and recording online. The person helping me even went to Apple store to figure out problem I was having setting up recording. I was nervous about getting wireless camera set up, but the customer service far exceeded what I expected. A real pleasure to work with. Highly recommend this company.

• 7 Mengel

  From a technical point of view the camera is so-so, the part I was unhappy the most is the support: on the manufacturer website you won’t find any “support” section with FAQs, help or documentation. The only thing you can do is to send an inquiry from a very simplistic web form and wait to be called back, during the work days and when they are not in the filed, at a customer site. Which does not work well when you are in a different time zone. In the end, the support engineers will give some generic answers and will offer to connect remotely and configure the camera for you, black magic, without you knowing what happened.

  Back to the technical side: the image quality is OK (not great), the camera works OK with Firefox, lacking only a few additional and little useful features present only in Internet Explorer. A problem for me was the camera work in wireless mode only then the LAN cable is disconnected, so you have to make the initial settings with a LAN connection and hope for the best when switching to wireless.

• 8 Eyler

  There are so many good things about this camera it’s hard to sum up in a short review. First, the setup is straight forward…plug the camera into your router run the included software to discover the camera and you’re off. If you know how to find out a device’s IP address, all you really need is a web browser to configure the camera meaning it works on Linux, Mac and Windows. The wireless is stable and supports several encryption methods including WPA & WPA2. It has a built in web server so once you have it configured there is no need for a computer other than for viewing the streams. In terms of streaming, the camera has several options and can simultaneously stream 3 different signals (primary, secondary, and a mobile). The mobile stream is great if you want to view the camera using a mobile device such as an iPhone. The camera has a moonlight mode which is ideal when you have only minimal light and the infrared is great for total darkness viewing. The camera has a wide angle of view so it makes for a great nursery monitor, etc. The camera has a built-in feature which allows you to alarm on motion events and be notified either by e-mail, FTP, or HTTP. All-in-all this is a great camera and for all that you get the price is right. If you don’t need night vision, then consider the SCNC2606 which offers everything the SCNC2607 does minus night vision. Check out my review on the SCNC2606…both are great cameras…you won’t be disappointed with either one.

• 9 VanGundy

  I wanted a “security” camera to access remotely, and this product is excellent. I, too needed some help finding my camera image on the Web. Sharx tech support called my landline phone after quickly answering my email query. This was a Sunday–how is that for service?

  The issue I had was using a Web IP setting instead of the router’s IP address; I would have eventually found the error, but tech support quickly had me up and running. The picture quality of my “bird feeder cam” is amazing. Even with the wide field of view and distance from the inside-behind-double-pane-glass window to the bird feeder, I could still identify a robin (yep), many sparrows and a cardinal.

  I am going to security-lock the camera down, but remind anybody that allows open access to pay attention to the audio settings and the various low-light choices (you may see high-quality images reflecting from your window at night). With a few adjustments it did not take me long to eliminate my reflections.

  I am looking forward to seeing what my cats really do when I am not home, but may put the camera to serious use watching the weather and my house, too. As a matter of fact, there may be another Sharx camera in my future.

• 10 Vecchio

  I recently purchased the SCNC2607 IP-Cam to use as a video server that I could access from within my home on my PC’s and iPhones, as well as to access the video from anywhere outside my home LAN if I want.

  Not requiring any special software to access this camera is the single most important item for me. If you want to be able to log into a camera from anywhere in the world, on any machine that has a connection to the internet and a web browser of some type, this is the one. There is also an included application called “Multi Live” which allows you to view up to 4 cams in one window.

  The camera itself was pretty easy to set up, and the image quality is superb! No tricky setup decisions are necessary by the user to decide what type of streams are available to whoever logs into it from whatever platform. If you log into it on an iPhone through Safari, the iPhone negotiates with the camera server software and automatically appends the URL with the “/en/mjpgmain.asp” extension. If logged in from Internet Explorer, the basic URL automatically appends the “en/avmain.asp” extension. All you need to do is type the URL of the camera into your browser and the rest is taken care of automatically.

  Safari on the iPhone will not process the audio stream, but this is not a problem with the camera, it is a limitation with Safari. I have read that Safari on a Mac computer will also not process the audio stream. I have tried various iPhone applications to process the audio stream, without success. But the designer of IP Vision by TTrix software has written me that an upcoming version will process audio. I have also tried this camera on a Sony PSP-3000 with the current firmware version (installed on 02-10-09) and current Flash update, but the device chokes up on memory limitations and can only process the jpeg still image. Some tablet PC’s and/or WiFi portable media players like the Nokia N810 or Archos 605 might work, but I haven’t tried them.

  The default image quality settings don’t need to be tweaked to lower quality settings unless your upload bandwidth gets maxed out. For one login to the camera (over the internet from work) I was able to use the maximum quality settings and didn’t see or hear any problems. My connection at home is cable internet with about 128 Kilobyte upload and 5 Megabit download, so I was worried about upload speed. With 8 users logged on, there could be issues requiring some settings tweaks, but that’s more than most people are probably going to be worried about. If you connect within your LAN then you don’t need to be concerned with upload bandwidth, because the data isn’t passing through your modem.

  There is a color setting, moonlight setting, and night vision setting, but I choose to let the camera do what it thinks it needs to do and have left these controls in automatic. The night vision works even in absolute darkness, and the image is crisp and clean. There is a setting for motion detection, with variable parameters to offset alarms or recording from occurrences like ceiling fans or a bird flying past a window.

  When viewing the camera on your browser, you have some easy control buttons available to take snapshots in either .bmp or .jpg formats. You can also record to your hard drive, in the .asf format. Recording can be stopped and started with the “Record” button, or started with the button and stopped by a maximum file size input that anyone logged in can specify. These picture and video controls can be run by anyone you authorize in either the admin account or any user accounts you set up.

  The user accounts (an account created that is not the admin account) has no access to your settings for the camera, so it’s a good one to send to Mom and Dad or your crazy aunt. When they get to the logon screen, if they choose “Enter” they can see what’s on your camera and record what they see and/or hear. If they try to enter “Settings” then they are presented with the login username/ password box again. As long as they don’t have your admin password, then you are safe from unauthorized changes to the camera settings.

  For up to 8 concurrent logons, you don’t need to create 8 separate guest user accounts. One will suffice. I have logged onto one guest account through a browser on my PC over the internet, through my iPhone on WiFi over the internet, and also through another browser on the same PC but using the LAN IP address. That’s pretty cool to be able to log on over LAN or WAN while connected through the same router the camera is connecting to. Like if somebody chops up your internet cable connection with a ditch digger, you can still see the cam by using the LAN address.

  The instruction manual supplied with the camera is very good. I only found one typo and it wasn’t important. It was not translated three times from an original language using obscure clucking noises and hieroglyphic symbols. An email to tech support was answered promptly and with great attention to detail. The techies are REAL ENGINEERS, not some morons in monkey suits with a license to confuse and aggravate.

  I mentioned before that the camera “itself” was easy to set up. That is true. What might be a bit challenging for some is the router configuration. I suggest while waiting for the camera to be delivered, brush up on your router’s help files. Find the range of IP addresses your router is assigning to devices automatically, such as 192.168.1.25 through 192.168.1.125, because the IP address you choose to assign to the cam to make it a permanent host will be somewhere outside of that range. Also check to see if your router has the latest firmware. My Trendnet TEW-452BRP had a glitch with running DDNS updates, even if all the fields were input properly. This would have caused me great frustration had I not checked the website first.

  If you want to access the cam from outside your LAN, then read up a little bit on DDNS. I’m using a free account from “no-ip.com” and there is a brief primer on using this service in the camera instruction manual. Check your router to see if it has an automatic function to update your current IP Address to a DDNS server. It doesn’t have to, as your PC can do it for you automatically every time it boots with a free program you get after registering, but why not be redundant if you can? If you decide to set up DDNS so as to access the cam through WAN, then find out how to give the cam TCP and UDP privileges on a specified port number, typically using a function called “Virtual Server.” Otherwise you would open “DMZ” or perhaps “Special AP” to give the cam connectivity rights.

  Be warned that DMZ opens all ports, which might be dangerous. Special AP is for programs which require multiple connections that are blocked by NAT, so again that might be dangerous as well. Using Virtual Server only opens the ports necessary for functionality of this specific device, so it is the best way to punch that hole through the wall into the http://WWW. And remember, if you are restricting access to the router by use of MAC numbers, shut that off when first installing the cam or else you won’t get it to connect. Later you can turn it back on.

  None of this is rocket science, but if problems do occur, the Engineers at Sharx are competent and they are committed to not letting you fail. It even says so in the instruction manual!

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