Genuine Foscam Fi8908w Wireless Ip Camera

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Genuine Foscam Fi8908w Wireless Ip Camera

product name: MODEL: FI8908W >Support IE browser or any other standard browsers >Wi-Fi compliant with wireless standards IEEE 802.11b/g >Support both WEP & WPA Encryption >Motion detection alert by way of email or upload effigy to FTP >Multi-level users management with password protection

Amazon Sales Rank: #1189 in Camera & Photo
Brand: electree
Dimensions: .33 pounds

Simple to setup, Friendly GUI, DIY installation
High effigy & video quality,Two-way audio monitoring
Allow remote Pan/Tilt control (Pan:270; Tilt:120)
Auto IR-LED illumination for night imaginativeness (up to 8 metres)
Allow remote viewing; record from anyplace anytime

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
Foscam Cameras good value for casual use
By Edward I. Comer
Over the past year I have done a lot of work with network IP cameras including high-end commercial models from Axis Communications; mid-range units from Panasonic and budget cameras from Foscam. I have worked extensively with three Foscam camera models – FI8918W Pan/Tilt, FI8909W-NA fixed camera and the FI8904W fixed outdoor model. All of these cameras were purchased directly from China rather than from Amazon, because Amazon did not offer them when I made my purchases, however, Amazon’s price is very good and I would purchase any future units from them.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Great so far but wish it had some features
By JayJay
I’ve had it for about a week so far and bought it to really monitor my dog’s behavior while I’m away. The infrared beam is excellent especially now with the dark winters. In fact the beam reaches pretty far and the picture at 640×480 looks very clear.

I had a Compro IP60 stationary camera before and one thing I really liked about it was I could point my Blackberry to an RTSP address and it’ll stream right to the phone (when it worked that is). With the Foscam it seems I’m dependent on purchasing an IP camera program. Two I saw in the app store cost $15 or more but I tested out Total Control which is $6 for a 4 camera version. It seemed to work and has options to pan the camera but my experiences showed my camera just moving on its own with me having no control whatsoever, even connected via wi-fi on the same network. Because of that I won’t try to pan it at all since you’ll just wind up staring at a wall.

The audio is incredibly clear, although only available with IE, and with minimal lag. The Compro IP60′s audio has a lot of lag and there’s a lot of clicking sounds, like relays going off inside, before and after which is pretty annoying so I was happy this didn’t have any of that.

I read a lot of reviews about this before getting it and I’ll just say that if you’re technically inclined and can read the words on the web GUI, you don’t even really need any instructional book at all whatsoever. I had the thing set up and going just by looking over all the settings. It’s actually all quite simple so jump right in.

The other complaint people listed was ActiveX crashing a lot with Win7 64bit. Mine crashed often too but one day when I had it in compatibility mode it seemed to work perfectly. Today though it’s crashing again. Kind of sucks since it’s so inconsistent. Hopefully a web UI update will fix this soon.

Currently I’m using a Synology DS409 with its Surveillance Station to record video but it doesn’t fully support the 918 yet. I can pan and tilt and all but there is no audio.

Overall it’s pretty nice. I intend to buy a second one so I can monitor more areas in my condo. The infrared beam only turns on when it gets dark so you don’t have to worry about wasting energy. Even in the night though you have the option of turning it off altogether. All in all pretty nice but due to lack of HTTPS, and the fact I leave it on all the time, I don’t port forward to it but instead use an SSH server to connect to and then tunnel to the camera. Now all my data is encrypted with an incredibly complex passphrase.

The one feature I wish it had was some sort of pan limit settings for the patrol. It will scan side to side or up and down but all the way to the ends. I wish it had numbers displayed for its pan location and somewhere you can enter in a min and max range. I really don’t need it to patrol the two walls I have, since it goes 300degrees, just down the two hallways. It’s like limiting sticks for a machine gunner position. There’s just a lot of wasted motion when it goes well beyond where it really needs to go.

And yes, my dog is freaked out by it when it moves and I fear I’ll have video of her attacking it some day but that’d be worth the $92.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Works Great, Fast Shipping
By rjeii2
The product works as it should, installation was not to bad. Pan/Tilt works great (even has speed settings) and video quality is better than I expected even under NO light conditions.