Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

These cameras are impressive. The picture quality is amazing, and so are the viewing angles. I've had these for a couple of months now and haven't had any problems with them. Setup was easy for me. I see that some others have had issues. I plugged these into my router, powered them up, then set them up with the Internet Explorer since it has the Active X plugins. The browser setup options are rather nice, with plenty of ways to tweak and fine tune things. My only complaint, if any, is the fact that these can move too quickly when running software to control them. There is an option to adjust pan speed, but it doesn't seem to stick after closing the browser out. I am running these with Blue Iris 3.6. It doesn't have an Amcrest profile (I believe the new 4.x version does though), so it was a bit of guess work to get them working, but eventually I found the following setting to work quite well: Under video/network IP camera configuration I set Make/model to: RTSP H.264/MJPG/MPEG4 The built in WiFi is fine, especially given that there is no external antenna, but I have these outside and where they are placed, WiFi was flaky/non existent. Not a knock on these, as No WiFi camera I have from other brands could reach that range either. Due to some restrictions on placement and household design, hard wiring these isn't an option at this time, so I bought an Edimax CV-7428nS 300Mbps Wireless N300 5-Port Universal Wi-Fi Media Bridge from here. it has worked well with 2 of these cameras and a Foscam HD camera. I actually bought these due to some issues I had with the 2 Foscams, model F19821P. After a bad firmware update on both, they would cut in and out every few minutes. About 2 days later they would finally start working without cutting out. Oddly this was repeatable by powering them off, and the issue would re-occur for a couple of days then stabilize. The picture quality is night and day though between these 2. The Foscam would wash out in lower light conditions with a yellow hue to it, whereas this Amcrest would still have a nice clear picture. Also the night vision and quality is much better with these, plus there are plenty of options to adjust that as well. The biggest thing is viewing angle. For the same given area, the Foscam gave about a 6-8 foot wide viewing area. These give about 12 feet, completely showing the walkway where one of them is placed. The very edges have a slight bow to them due to the wide angle, but nothing obvious that would affect viewing them. I only noticed it due to the door it was covering and the trim around the door had a slight bow to it. Overall these are very nice cameras and do what they need to very well. Plus they have a zoom on them. It is digital though, so you will get some pixelation the closer you zoom, but it still has a good image quality to it when zoomed in.