Hi
Luke (my significant other
) bought the camera. He ended up buying the ?SOHO wireless internet camera? off eBay for ?150 GBP (approx $276 USD). Have a look at this link if you want to learn more about it. <a href='http://www.network-camera.co.uk/index.html' target='_blank'>SOHO wireless internet camera</a>
It is wireless but it also has the ability to work with a 10/100 RJ-45 Ethernet cable, we found that most of the wireless ones did have the dual functionality but they do cost a fair bit extra. We are using it wireless because of the location of the run (at the end of the garden). The camera?s not water proof which is why it?s inside. You can have 64 simultaneous users logged-in, you can set-up user accounts and you can have the camera email you an image and particular intervals etc.
At home we have a 512k broadband Internet connection, a ?wired? Netgear ADSL router (my boyfriend didn?t want his gaming performance effected by a wireless router!) and a Netgear wireless access point. We have 2 PC and the wireless access point wired directly to the router then we have a laptop and the camera connected to the wireless access point.
There are loads of camera?s out there. The smile cams (<a href='http://www.smilecam.co.uk' target='_blank'>Smile Cam link</a>) are v.cheap and v.good but you need a server to run them. The beauty of the IP/Network camera?s (such as the SOHO) is that they have their own built in CPU and web server so you literally have to plug them in to your network, configure your router and that?s it, your up and running. You can then view your camera from anywhere.
I really want the D-Link Wireless Camera DCS-5300W (See <a href='http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=296' target='_blank'>DLink-DCS5300W</a>). It has tilt/pan/audio and zoom facilities all of which are configurable via the internet. It can be configured to email you an image or video footage whenever it detects motion and loads of other stuff, but like I said before, we bought the SOHO camera just to see if we could get it working etc, now that we can we will probably invest in one of the tilt/pan camera?s so that we can get a better handle on the activity within the run. Just one problem, the DCS-5300W costs ?300 GBP
(Approx $552 USD) so we?ll have to get saving!
Anyway?hope this has helped (sorry too have bored you if it hasn?t
)
Regards
Heidi