Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I had a pair of Foscam units but this package is far more sophisticated. Two caveats: 1) You need to begin the setup process with a monitor and a mouse hooked directly up to the DVR so the initial setup/hard drive formatting - you can't do it through your WiFi. 2) One of my 8 cameras arrived DOA. Being a Amateur radio operator (KG0WX), I felt confident investigating as the cameras have no anti-tamper seals and are easy to take apart as the housing simply screws apart. I found that inside the housing is a bag of silica drying agent to prevent fogging but it had knocked the main connector off the camera board. I also found the O ring seal around that board instead of in it's groove in the housing. Easy fix! The LED board is a common Ebay part and can be replaced when the LED's get weak in a few years. The night vision is double the Foscam's capabilities (and those were impressive in their own right). These will cover about half of a typical yard with full illumination and a lit cigarette looks like a road flare! Remember to set up port forwarding for this in your router, TCP 37777, UDP 37778 and HTML 80. Once I did that it came alive and when I hooked up a monitor to the VGA port I was really impressed with the sophistication of the system and the features, like how you can designate where in the view of the camera the motion detector will or won't look. Not for the non techie so if you don't know what TCP/IP means you might want to think of hiring a Nerd to help you get this online. I also noted on my now repaired camera #8 that that cable had no strain relief in the mount so if you tug on the cable it might unplug inside the camera.....