dual mode

Well, I chose to ignore the blatant Axis commercial someone put here as a review. I own the D-link 2000 and the Axis. The Axis is more expensive, has poorer software and is a royal pain to set up and configure.

The D-Link, while suffering some low light issues, is a snap to configure and update, simple to set up as a live web-cam or security cam. It's included security software is great! I actually now have 6 D-link cameras set up as door monitors, security, and to watch the dog (seems to be a popular use - what do we expect them to do, dance?)

Bottom line - not a better bang for the buck!

I have both the wired and the wireless versions of the 2000 series in my house and I've been pretty pleased with them. It's very easy to setup and get the basics working - I had a little trouble figuring out how to get my Linksys router to forward requests from outside the firewall to the correct camera but that has more to do with me being a bonehead than anything else.

I like the video survalence software quite a bit, the motion detection stuff is slick, easy to use and works well. Similiar feature sets on other cameras (i.e. Apex) will cost you quite a bit more.

Couple knocks that kept me from giving it 5 stars - the email notification stuff (Which works with just the logic built into the camera itself) doesn't fire off reliably. About 1 in 4 events did not result in email - however those same events always recorded with the video survalence software. Their on line knowledge base/support pages are kinda weak (no searching capability!). The picture could be better for outdoors - I'm looking into alternative CS lenses to see if I can improve it.

Over all those are minor knocks on what is really a great product over all.

If you focus this just right you can do a whole lot of good for the image quality. We have it setup to send an image to an FTP server everytime someone comes to the front door of our office. We don't get a whole lot of traffic, so it works out ok. I can vouch for the motion detection since not just the front door is in view of the camera. we select the area of what the camera can see for motion detection. and have it upload an image when it sees movement within that area of what we designate.

This is all very simple to figure out and worth the short time it takes to set up. Our company is glad we purchased it and will likely invest in another if we ever need another camera or a new one.