With the D-Link DCS-1000, you can remotely monitor your home or office or provide a Web page with a network camera viewing anything you want it to show. The DCS-1000 provides you... more
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With the D-Link DCS-1000, you can remotely monitor your home or office or provide a Web page with a network camera viewing anything you want it to show. The DCS-1000 provides you with an intuitive interface with simple installation instructions. Built to be robust yet simple to use, the DCS-1000 provides you with VGA-quality streaming video that can be placed anywhere you like. The DCS-1000 provides an auto-sensing Fast Ethernet 10/100 Mbps port to connect to your network or residential gateway through Ethernet cable (CAT5 twisted pair). An easy-to-use HTML interface allows you to manage the DCS-1000 or view the webcam video stream from any Java-enabled Web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. With built-in automatic gain control and white balance control there is no need to fiddle with settings to get a great-looking picture with the DCS-1000. Additional advanced features allow you to tailor the DCS-1000 to your specific needs or modify settings to ensure a steady stream over low-bandwidth Internet connections.
Advantages: Easy to set up and use, Stable, Good support Disadvantages: A bit out dated
...The D-Link DWL-G650+ is a PCMCIA wireless (WiFi) card, which plugs into an available PCMCIA slot on a laptop. With this card, it wireless-enables a laptop, assuming it doesn't have built-in wireless already. The card cost me about £25 at the time but you may be able to find the same one cheaper now. Most of these seem to be in this price range if not less, since they are becoming redundant with new laptops already having built-in cards. It's a 802.11G card, which means theoretically, it can transfer 54Mbits/s but they never get to that speed. Most residential broadband connections nowadays only range up to 10Mbit/s.
INSTALLATION
I find the installation of this card has always been very easy. I just install the driver and software off the CD and then plug the card in. This literally takes minutes. Only thing I'm not too keen on is...
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Advantages: Saves you money, quick transfer from one device to another... Disadvantages: None till now...
...I think this is the tinniest product I ever reviewed…but being so useful to me I thought I'll write some words about it.
D-Link DBT-122 USB Bluetooth Adapter it is a very helpful tool for those people who'd like to transfer some files from one machine to another. Me I use it to transfer mp3 music from my PC to my telephone.
I bought this small item from www.expansys.com.cy and I paid for it only £12, a bit expensive but what's cheap today?
It came in a very big box (I really don't understand why it has to be so big) which had inside:
- The USB Bluetooth Adapter
- CD-ROM
- USB extension cable
- User Manual
Driver Installation
After you get everything out from the box, the first thing you have to do - as I did - is to insert the CD in your CD-ROM Drive and to follow the steps which will appear on your...
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Advantages: Wireless N technology is good for speed and data throughput... Disadvantages: ...but if the adapter keeps dropping out (like this one does) then it is useless
...my net experience.
So...that's alright then. I need not have kept rebooting. All I had to do was pull.... what? You mean that's not a design feature? Ok. In that case it is not up to the job - I want reliability…not a lack of ability.
I summarise the D-Link DWA-140 as follows:
D-Links Woeful Adaptor
Dodgy Wireless Ability
Doesn't Work Always
Dis Was Awful
Don't Want Another
Don't Waste Any (money on this adapter)
Recommend it? That will be a 'No', then
ps I researched the drop out problem on the internet - apparently it is well known so I am not alone in this - you have been warned!!...
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13.04.2006
