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1.5 stars
"WiFi mode a problem! Please note!"
Pros: Do not know yet....
Cons: Could not get WiFi working on D-Link cameras
Summary: I bought three D-Link WiFi cameras. They worked just fine on wired Ethernet. They would not work at all on WiFi (I even have a 15dB gain antenna so its not a signal issue!) and would not connect from even 10 feet away. Clearly others here have had this problem. I took them back to the store and bought three Panasonic WiFi cameras (which I have to say are excellent - albeit more expensive) instead. Initially I had the SAME problem. They worked wired but not WiFi. I spent half a day trying to figure this out. Here is what I found: I have a NetGear WiFi Access Point. It is configured with WEP, etc. etc. As such, I had selected Infrastucture Mode. Nothing worked. There was no selection on either the D-Link cameras or the Panasonic cameras to select the network type. I assumed that as it was set to WEP it defaulted to Infrastructure Mode. However, I noticed that there were actually three options in the NetGear setup security selection: Ad-Hoc, Infrastructure and Mixed. For the hell of it I selected Mixed to see what would happen. Hey presto the three cameras instantly burst into life!!!
I have no idea what is going on here. There is nothing that monitors anything that you can see to find out. The only thing I can say is that I now have three working WiFi cameras - and, as I said, the Panasonic ones are excellent (and also have pan/tilt and access from Smartphones and PDas and a good number of other great features).
It may well be that the D-Link cameras would have worked too if I had chosen Mixed on the NetGear Access Point. But I had already taken them back to the store......
If you haven't got a NetGear WAP or one that has this Mixed option, you may never get the cameras working!
Of course, I could be wrong about this but it is the only thing that I changed that had an immediate effect on the non-working WiFi cameras. Anything else I tried did not make a bean of difference......
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It sounds like your initial problems stem from your router settings, not the camera. It seems wrong to rate the camera poorly because you couldn't get WiFi to work, when it was due to a different device's settings and your inability to configure it properly.
