D-Link Wireless Internet Camera DCS-G900

by D-Link

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10 x 4 x 7 inches ; 10.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BMNMAM
• Item model number: DCS-G900
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

D-Link introduces its newest member of the D-Link SECURICAM Network of Internet Cameras: the DCS-G900. A full-featured surveillance camera, the DCS-G900 connects using 802.11g to your existing wireless network. The DCS-G900 features a high quality glass lens and CMOS sensor to capture high-quality MJPEG video.Controlling your camera is made simple using the included IP View Lite SE Software. IP View Lite SE manages up to four DCS-900 series or DCS-950 series cameras simultaneously. Using IP View Lite SE, you can set your camera to record whenever it detects motion, on a set schedule, or to record manually.Alternatively, you can view a live feed and take snapshots with any ActiveX or Java -enabled web browser, making it ideal for capturing a moment no matter where you are. Web-based camera access works with both PC and Mac.By signing up with one of the many free Dynamic DNS services available on the web, you can assign an easy-to-remember web address to the camera. Remotely access your camera without having to

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For the price and quality of this camera, you can't go wrong!!, September 11, 2006

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Wesley Sundquist (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: D-Link Wireless Internet Camera DCS-G900 (Personal Computers)

I purchased the DCS-G900 in August and it works as advertised. It can be accessed and administered with just your web browser (type the camera's IP address into the address bar), or you can use the IPView Lite SE that comes with the camera to gain some extra features like Motion Detection, multiple camera control (up to 4) within the same IPView window and the ability to rotate the image 90 degrees (the internal camera settings will allow you to only mirror and\or flip the image, not turn it 90 degrees).

The max resolution is 640x480 (300K pixels), so it's not the same quality as a mega-pixel digital camera, but I have it trained on the front door at my place of business and I can recognize the people coming and going.

I tested the email feature and it works great. Enter the same credentials you use to log into your regular ISP mailbox, enter a recipient's address and you're off and running.

I installed the IPView software specifically for the Motion Detection feature. The camera is still always on and displaying a live picture, but when motion detection is enabled, it also automatically starts/stops recording any activity causing change in the camera's image. The amount of change in the image required to activate the recording is adjustable using a SENSITIVITY slider. The downside to that is now I need a computer up and running just to host IPView and provide storage space for the recordings.... They could have built the motion detection functionality into the camera, but then you'd still need storage space for the recordings and we'd probably being paying more for the camera.

The Power and Link LED lights can be set to NORMAL, so folks can see the thing is actively working, or OFF, so it doesn't grab anyone's attention, or DUMMY, which makes them blink randomly so people can't tell if they're being seen or not.

I too initially had a problem getting the camera to locate my wireless network but it wasn't the camera's fault. Like any good network administrator, I disabled my wireless router's ability to broadcast my network's SSID (name), which effectively means there was no network name for the camera to find. If you momentarily enable the SSID broadcast on your wireless router, your camera should be able to find the network and complete the handshake. Once your camera has made the connection, you can once again disable the SSID broadcast and leave it disabled (until you want to connect another device).

I haven't used the FTP feature, but if it works as well as the email feature, you should be happy with the result.

I can't speak about the quality of customer service, as there was no need for it.

For the price and quality of this camera, you can't go wrong!!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not sure what the problems are, June 29, 2007

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Rich in Chicago "richinchicago" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: D-Link Wireless Internet Camera DCS-G900 (Personal Computers)

I've read the other reviews and am surprised. Mine works great both wireless and wired. Perhaps one of the problems is that people look for a wireless signal when it is in the wired mode for setup. The device turns the wireless off when connected via the ethernet cable so you can't continue with the wireless setup until you disconnect the ethernet cable. Other than that it works great on my network which uses WPA security.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, October 24, 2006

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Mark Lord - See all my reviews
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This review is from: D-Link Wireless Internet Camera DCS-G900 (Personal Computers)

Flakey, like nearly all of D-Link's wireless products.

Some days it works, connecting fine to the Dlink WPA-PSK router I have, and sometimes it won't connect at all.

The 100mb/s wired ethernet always works, though, and works very well.

A nice wired camera, that sometimes will do wireless as well.