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The ease of setup and operation of this unit and the quality of the image from the camera (which is good) could not make up for the fact that the poor signal quality renders the good points irrelevant. At any distance greater than 3 or 4 feet between the camera and receiver, the image becomes so unstable as to be barely discernible. Marked by white interference lines, static and jumpiness, the image quality of the installed system was not acceptable for my application in my environment.I did try unplugging all of my cordless phones as well as my wireless router and all wireless PCs but there was no effect on the signal quality.Obviously this unit works well for some people in their environment if the reviews are to be believed. I would be sure you purchase from Amazon so that you can easily return it if need be.
Did receive it very quickly, & it is nice & small, however, I found it to be a terrible camera. Did not get any picture to come in.not worth the money at all. I know most people liked it but mine wasn't worth it. It is going right back.
While I admit this product is compact and easy to use, it has major problems: picture quality is poor (it needs lots of light); reception only works on one channel (possibly due to interference, but who doesn't have wireless internet these days).; so I can't even buy another camera since the other two channels provide almost no reception; even on that one channel the reception is barely acceptable (frequent white stripes accross the image). Secondly, the small camera does not transmit audio, which is dissapointing since the receiver does have audio output.
Great little camera. Good color, range is enough to cover a room or doorway. Very easy to set up.
Eventually I figured out that the receiver box needed to be closer than 1 ft from the camera for the stripes to go away. As a first try I set up everything in my living room, with the camera on the fireplace mantel and the receiver box on my TV stand and connected to the TV. I got this one for my porch two days ago. This is insane. The setup was extremely easy, but right away I got intense white stripes rolling continuously across the screen. The camera was 7 ft away from the receiver box with nothing in between, and all 3 channels had the same problem. My guess is that it was caused by inteference from wireless networks around my apartment, even though I myself don't have wireless, and turning my cell phone off did not make any difference. I'm returning it today and getting a 1.2 GHz one instead.
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