Linksys WVC54GCA Webcam 640×480 802 11G Wireless Internet Home Monitoring Camera

The Linksys Compact Wireless-G Internet Video Camera sends live video through the Internet to a web browser anywhere in the world This compact, self-contained unit lets you keep track of your home, your kids, your workplace — whatever is important to you. Unlike standard “web cams” that require an attached PC, the Internet Video Camera contains its own web server, so it can connect directly to a network, either over Wireless-G (802.11g) networking, or over 10/100 Ethernet cable. Choose either MPEG-4 or Motion JPEG video compression for a high-quality, high-framerate, up to 640×480 video stream.

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star BAD IDEA
This netcam dose not work with any other DDNS except TZO DDNS. This is a distortion attempt by Linksys to con customers to pay for a service that they can get for free.

2 Stars Not a reliable Camera system.
It constantly needs to be hard reset every other day. Home monitoring systems are suppose to get accessible at any point without worry. For a little bit more, you might as well get a whole DVR system. When it works, it works great!

1 Star Bad Quality
I had this slightly for over a year when the wired interface suddenly stopped working. The wireless still works but I need the wired interface. The motion detection is a joke. But the rest works fine.

1 Star Very disappointed…
I ordered this camera to use in our home. I have a recently purchased a DLink wireless router that I planned on connecting to. The problem is there was no way to get the camera to connect to my network using WEP. I tried on my own for a long time and then eventually went through two very lengthy troubleshooting chats with the Linksys tech. Their only answer was to send the camera back and try another. Well, I scheduled a return to Amazon and went to Bestbuy locally and picked up another one. You guessed it…Same song different verse! The exact same thing occurred. After another long tech chat Linksys actually suggested I get yet a third camera. That was not an option for me because I had already spent enough time. The only way I was able to use this camera was to either use it hardwired or to totally turn off security which is not an option for a permanent solution. Researching the problem on the internet I found many others who had the same problem, but found no solution. I am not able to use WPA on my network because I have an older Tivo on my network that will not support anything other than WEP. However, I have read accounts of the same issue using WPA. I am returning the second one to Bestbuy and looking for another solution. Very disappointing!

3 Stars Works
Since I use only the Linux operating system I wasn’t sure how well this camera would work. For the most important functions it works well. The down side is that the documentation isn’t very good. It took a lot of web searching to find out how to get images I could use with Linux motion detecting software. [...]

The camera is also supposed to be able to do motion detection internally and only call the computer when these showed up. Idiotically, that part of the web interface only works on Windows computers. I have no idea if it works.

I am using this camera as a security camera. In that role it is OK but not great. The light sensitivity is not as good as I would like. And I would prefer higher resolution. Also I see quite a few artifacts in the pictures.

I love that it is an ethernet camera and is not very expensive. Because it is ethernet I can locate it rather far from my computer. By contrast a USB camera would place the camera within 5 meters of the computer.

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