Customer Reviews

Q-See QSWOC2R 2-Pack Outdoor Wireless Night Vision Camera Kit with Receiver and Remote

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The 2.4 GigaHZ frequency range that this unit uses is also used by some cordless phones, wireless routers and other wireless devices. I set the first camera in a Breezeway between my house and garage about 50 feet from the receiver. When connected to a TV monitor the picture had a horizontal rolling bar and static like distortion. The sound was so filled by clicks and buzzes that nothing could be heard above it. I switched cameras and frequencies with the same result. I also moved the monitor closer to the camera with no improvement. I returned the product the next day. I can only conclude that the interference was caused by other wireless devices in my home or neighborhood.

The Q-See QSWOC2R wireless cameras do not work. I placed these cameras in various locations outside of my house, one within 20ft and the other within 50ft of the wireless receiver. When I turned on the TV to see what would be the output of these cameras, the one that was 20ft away, all I saw was fuzzy, grainy pictures. The other camera that was 50ft away showed nothing but static. These products are advertised as having "300ft of Transmission Line of Sight" and "The receiver can be kept up to 300 ft. away (in the line of sight) and still get great video images". This is 100% untrue and doesn't make sense. If the wireless receiver is supposed to be kept indoors and the cameras are made for the outdoors, how is the receiver supposed to be "in the line of sight"? Isn't that defeating the whole purpose of of having outdoors cameras that can view outdoor images from inside your home?

I called Q-See's tech support to see if they might have a solution to the problem. The guy I spoke to seemed to be somewhat clueless but suggested that my other wireless equipment such as my router might be interfering with the Q-See wireless receiver. So I unhooked my router and other wireless devices. None of this helped because I was still having the same problem with the cameras.
Please stay far away from Q-See QSWOC2R cameras because they do not work as advertised.

The cameras are small, very easy to use, but quality defeats the purpose of even having these running. Bought them to use for outside the house and the range was about 10 ft at most from the living room where the reciever was to the cameras outside. Very disappointing product.

These cameras work great provided that there are no WiFi signals in the area to interfere with the transmission. The images are clear and bright, even in totally dark rooms. The signal suffers whenever the furnace turns on, or if I am using my home WiFi, but otherwise works flawlessly scanning between four cameras (I ordered two more to go with the two that came with the package). The image is brighter and clearer than the wireless SVAT camera I was using. I use mine with a Q-See dvr card in a cheap computer, with a 250 gig hard drive which is dedicated to home surveillance. This arrangement allows me to save about four or five months of mpegs before new data begins to overwrite the old images.

I originally bought this set of two cameras (channels 1 and 4) and after a few days of moving, readjusting, and so on was able to get them to work marginally well at a distance between the cameras and receiver of about 8 feet and through a simple sheetrock and plywood wall. They still get occasional interference (lines, hash, etc), especially when the microwave is turned on in the kitchen, but otherwise for watching critters, people coming to the door and so on they worked. The sound is lousy, however, and I keep it turned off. Caution: The advertising on the box is absolutely misleading. The only way you could get 100 meters range is line of sight on the far side of the moon. The absolute best range I was able to get without RF was about 30 feet. These cameras are VERY susceptible to RF interference, especially conputer routers and WiFi equipment and these are everywhere nowadays. The nightvision shifts from color to black and white and the maximum range is 8 feet. These are not true weatherproof outdoor cameras. They might survive a brief, light sprinkle but a significant rain would be another question. The claims made on the package deserve consumer agency attention.

Anyway, I was getting minimum adequate performance from these first two cameras so I bought another set and changed the dip switches to channels 2 and 3. These show RF interference even when in the same locations as channels 1 and 4. They will work inside the house to a distance of maybe 10 to 15 feet, depending on the location and obstacles between the camera and receiver, before becoming so scrambled as to be useless. They are junk, toys. Get a hardwired system instead. Do NOT buy. Amazon should quit selling them.

At times the picture is incredibly clear. Most any electric item anywhere in the house causes some interference, though - even the washing machine in the basement. For the price, it is a great product, and the option to buy a set of two was perfect for my needs.

really poor quality, colors, wireless range (more than 20ft very noised picture), daily images is like IR pics from sunset time ...
Product is more like nice toy for kids under 10 years.

I have regreated to buy this.Signal is very week and hazy. no matter which channel I select, picture is not quality is not good and breaking

Although the wireless cameras work fine as advertised, I would have wished they were compatible with my Q-see DVR and surveillance system. As is, they are a stand-alone system with limited use as far as I am concerned.

Out of the box the receiver that came with this did not work. After plugging it in there was no power going to the receiver at all. We did plug in the camera to a receiver we already had for an older security camera and the image quality of the camera was very good. Sharp focus and much less static than our older camera we were trying to replace. It's just a shame this one came with a non-functioning receiver. Also, the remote control had a gash in it. Very disappointed in the quality control from amazon.com.