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by Herr Böb A DIY Surveillance Camera is a camera, which you can install and use at your house without the need of a technician. You can find a Varity of companies, which provide Surveillance Cameras and installing such cameras, might be a bit expensive, so you can do it yourself by using the manual,
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by Claudio.Ar A vulnerability in the way Internet Explorer parses MHTML contentâa method for combining multiple file types and HTML content into a single fileâis now targeting users as part of a “drive-by” browser attack. It’s called that due to the process by which attackers exploit the loophole: They’ll create a malicious website, lure a
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by TedRheingold Camera surveillance has become the mark of a generation. Everywhere we go – little do we know – we are within the sight of one or more cameras. And now, more than ever, homeowners are using the home security surveillance camera to protect their properties and their families. The home security surveillance camera
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by hunter.gatherer Your vehicle darts along the road, continuing to speed faster and faster. You press on the brakes, and discover you’ve lost control over the vehicle’s breaking system! Seconds later, you hit a wall. Proving Newton’s law that “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction,” your head whips back against the
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by jurvetson Overview This article discusses some essential technical concepts associated with a VPN. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) integrates remote employees, company offices, and business partners using the Internet and secures encrypted tunnels between locations. An Access VPN is used to connect remote users to the enterprise network. The remote workstation or laptop will
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by Claudio.Ar Pandora’s box has been opened and the explosion of information both personal and non-personal seems to be limitless and increases exponentially. And according to the National Opinion Poll taken in January of 2007 half the UK harbors a “deep mistrust” due to security concerns. Not only is there a deep public mistrust but,
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by TedRheingold As with regular surveillance cameras, the lens on a surveillance camera determines how wide an image is created and how much light is let in.
The lenses you purchase should match the format of your surveillance camera: 1/4″ lenses work best with 1/4″ cameras. It is possible to use a larger format
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by smith Many people are under the impression that surveillance cameras are used strictly for crime prevention. However, in today’s world, law enforcement officials are one of many groups that utilize the capabilities of these security tools. Businesses across all different industries have found ways to use surveillance cameras to increase efficiency, measure success
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by takomabibelot You should have a home surveillance system these days, and it does not have to cost you a lot of money! You can get an IP Surveillance Camera, or even several of these little beauties. The great thing about these is that they don’t need to be wired into a digital recording device,
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Keeping surveillance on the home is one of the ways you can ensure your security. It is no luxury to have cameras fixed in your home to help check whatever is going on around you. MAKE YOUR PHONE YOUR HOME SURVEILLANCE CAMERA NOW Home security surveillance involves installations of cameras in specific points in your
about 1 year ago
I bought this on a Gold Box deal and am very glad I did. First, the image quality is superb. TRENDnet supplies software to assist in setting up the camera but people with a bit of technical experience can go straight to the web interface and set things up there and there are some great features that allow you to set this camera up pretty much however you want.
All of the camera settings are configurable – brightness, contrast, saturation, frame rate, resolution, and even settings to synchronize with 50 or 60 Hz lighting or outdoors. It also supports WPA2 encryption and three levels of password-protected access. You can have it grab images based on movement (requires accessing the camera with Internet Explorer to configure that for some reason) or on a time schedule, and either have it e-mail the images or ftp them somewhere. And it supports dynamic domain name configuration so you can access the camera even if your IP address changes.
It also supports time and date stamping the images – pretty much a necessity – but it also supports accessing an NTP server to make sure the onboard clock is accurate.
And once you get the camera all set up the way you want it, you can save out the configuration file to make it a snap to reconfigure it in case you ever do a hard reset that restores all the defaults.
Not that it will matter to most, but this camera server is actually a full ARM-based computer running Linux. If you go to the TRENDnet website, besides getting the latest firmware, you can also get the source code for the camera OS for those that want to tinker.
The final issue is just the value. You are getting a video camera and a web-serving computer with both wired and wireless interfaces for this price. I’m glad I got mine and am using it to monitor my front porch for visitors and also as a way to monitor the weather at home. With multiple cameras, it’s easy to monitor all sorts of things if someone wants to.
Rating: 5 / 5
about 1 year ago
I bought one of these cameras, knowing that it was claimed to be reliant on active-x for the video stream, but my Mac-based application could work around that. My early experiments at setup and use were with Firefox and, as expected, the live video wasn’t available. I went thru the setup and put it online and then went to a different machine using Safari (v3.1) and lo and behold: It streamed the video using an ultracam.jar applet. I troubleshot the Firefox installation and found an incompatibility with /library/internet plug-ins/javaplugincocoa.bundle. Once that plug-in was removed, the video stream worked under Firefox with the same ultracam applet. Also tested successfully with Opera v9.62.
Wireless setup and performance are nominal and straightforward, as are the function with DynDNS and emailed events. One must remember that the default IP address of the camera is probably not in the same non-routable range as most use with their LANs.
Mac users should not fear this camera. Sporting features like the NTP clock & timestamp, DynDNS, and price make it a really nice deal.
Rating: 4 / 5
about 1 year ago
If you are going to use this on a remote property or location, here is a lot to help you –
1. Get some cheap sunglasses,break it, and tape one of the lenses over the camera to use it on the outdoors – it is really designed for indoor use & low light – a light sensitive and polarizing filter or sunglass is best –
2. Do call Tech support for help – they are great !
3. You need to know the IP address of your home ROUTER to enable people far away to look at this over the internet – and unfortunately that IP address is assigned by your Internet Service Provider (Verizon or Comcast for many of you & me too!) . and … they change that address and give you a new one occasionally. Normally you can get that from the main screen when typing 192.168.1.1 into your browser and an info page will provide you the 4 numbers you need.
4. You also need to make sure that the router has “Port forwarding” enable for port #80. This is a default mode on some routers – not for others. Logging into the router control panel will have a page somewhere that lets you enable this if need be. Ignore this step and test – might just work (mine did!). For multiple cameras they each need to be forwarding on different port #s… 80, 81, 82, 83…. and the router needs to enable all of those ports to be forwarded….
5. Once you know the IP address and enabled port forwarding, call a friend and have them put the IP address into their browser as an address – and add “:80″ (or other numbers for multiple camera situation) into the browser – that should let them see you or your view !! Note that they need to have Java and ActiveX installed and allowed in their browser !!
6. As an example – making up the numbers here – if your router says the IP address is XX.yyy.ZZ.AA then you would put http://xX.yyy.ZZ.AA:80 into the browser – then put in the username and password for the camera – and viola – it works !!
7. Note that if you power down the router, reset it, or if Verizon or Comcast does some maintenance work, the IP address #s change – so you need a way to get that data when needed! (I’m still working on that – it’d be nice if you could get it email’ed on demand from your ISP…..)
Have fun – great camera otherwise (this imnprtant info above was not in the help or Tech doc CD I got with the cmaera!!
Rating: 4 / 5
about 1 year ago
My first suggestion; leave yourself plenty of time. This will not be accomplished in five minutes. However, I would suspect many of you reading this column are mighty frustrated by now, and are looking to the reviews for assistance. Fact is you will learn more from these reviews than from tech support! Here’s how to set these cameras up (I have four!) TRENDnet Wireless Internet Camera Server (TV-IP110W)
Step 1. Lose the disk and the instruction manual. They are of little use.
Step 2. Enter the [...] website, find your camera in download section.
Step 3. Download and install SecureView and IPSetup.
Step 4. Power up the camera and install the ethernet cable to your router.
Step 5. Load IPSetup and find your camera, double click and enter the setup program.
Step 6. Select static IP and record the camera number, configure your settings.
Step 7. Hint! for email notification, ping your mail server and enter the numeric IP.
Step 8. Hint! select this NTP time server for your camera <64.90.182.55> otherwise the camera will forget the time each time you unplug it. This is a pain to reset! Make sure you enter your correct timezone, e.g. GMT -5:00 for Eastern US Time Zone
Step. 9 Port forward your router using the router setup routine. Just do a google on port forwarding!
Step 10. If port forwarding doesn’t work, select another port, e.g. default port ’80′ did not work for me!
Step 11. Hint! You don’t need SecureView to capture and email images! Just enable motion detect on the setup screen.
Step 12. To make sure you can view cameras from a remote location, use a laptop and connect to an unsecured wireless connection, enter “[...]” and record your IP address. Now enter your IP address e.g. [...] where the numeric string is your IP and :80 is the port you forwarded under steps 10 and 11.
Step 13. Hint! Do not try to view camera images on your desktop and wireless laptop at the same time! You will lose connectivity to your IP Cam! Each Camera must have a unique port!
Step 15: Sit back and enjoy the view!
PS. Trendnet offers Excellent technical support. They are open on New Year’s Day and were extremely polite and helpful.
Rating: 5 / 5
about 1 year ago
Install and set-up went OK, test position close to the WLAN router went OK.
Installed at the intended location the “W” started to act up within a day, unplugging and replugging would get it back to work for a few hours.
Then it quit, won’t even do “W” mode when close to the router. Works just fine when on the wire.
Reading a few of the other “trials and tribulations” I think this one will go back.
Update on the above:
I obtained a RMA from the seller and a replacement (naturally it’s “pay up-front” for that!
), but then decided that there had to be a solution to the WLAN problem.
There sure was: get EVERY ONE of the settings correct and it works. That includes ALL the Wireless settings including the encryption i.e. if the router is set to HEX make sure the cam settings are in HEX too! The other pit fall: correct channel! for some strange reason the channel setting will revert back to the default (6) unless one sets the channel, selects mode as “ad-hoc”, then “apply”. After the “Apply” go back and reset the mode to “Infrastructure”. The channel setting finally stayed!
Next project will be getting the focus as clear as possible for the outside, the reviews keep mentioning the excellent picture quality … not so far!
Rating: 3 / 5