Recent content by TheTobic

@fenderman : All great and valid points! I love seeing solid experience and advice from members on this board!

Congrats on Fatherhood! Third piece*(**) of the best advice we got from the Baby Doc - ditch the baby monitor. We ignored her advice and spent the next few months in total self-imposed over-worried parental hell. Turns out, babies are quite active and noisy at night (who knew!). They chirp...

The maximum POE run you can complete is approximately 328ft (100m) - this is the limit that data can be transmitted across the ethernet cable before it becomes unstable. The maximum distance you can power a device will vary depending on the access point and its voltage required, as well as the...

Agreed - the Dell refurb is the best deal going for raw horse power per dollar. I looked into building my own - same experience as acvb - end up costing a bit more. I thought, what about these new fanless PCs (al-la Mac Mini). A refurb Mac Mini is around $500...

Sorry for the late response. I tried to manually assign an IP address and use the ONVIF method. The NVR throws the same unhelpful error of "parameter error". I have tried it every which way - I dont think this will work. I'll finish out my installation project and put the Axis on the side to...

Yep. Axis is plugged into port 8 of the Swann NVR - which is a POE. The axis got an IP address from DHCP from the NVR, so its on the camera network. I have tried the SwannView Plus Wizard, the Swann native HTML page. I'm starting to think, the Swann Costco bundle is pretty much just that - a...

Fenderman - you are correct. The quality is daytime image is better from the Swanns, and the IR is smoother (less noise) from the Axis. Last night, I was testing, and everything had "clicked" over into IR... As for adding the Axis - I am still stuck. I tried to add it by IP address, on...

Howdy folks! I took advantage of the Costco bundle on the Swann NVR with 8 PoE IP 3MP cameras. So far, its doing what I want it to do. Happy with the purchase. BUT!!! I came across a smokin' good deal on a brand new Axis M3024-L Dome. Wow. (Talk about a step up in picture quality (and...