CollinR

Is it a Linksys or LinkSYS? You should have this screen, might check for firmware.

Do you have TCP ports 80, 8080, 9999 forwarded? If not thats probably your problem. You need more then just 80.

Agreed, and she probably never will be. She will sleep in the same room as my 2 daughters. I won't be overly coaching her towards agression but I bet some of Max will rub off. It's like most everything else the bad guys not knowing is a pretty good deterrent. Really though all I need is a bark or two. One of my last offices was in a REALLY REALLY bad part of town, I used to constantly have to watch for theft, had beggers, **s, dealers you name it all around everyday. I started bringing Max in with me everyday, never heard from those clowns again. They stayed on the other side of the street. He can easily tell a questionable person regaurdless of race and clothing, pretty amazing really. He is VERY protective though... I have had to come home for a HVAC guy trapped in a bathroom. Wife said he pulled a screwdriver from his tool bag and Max freaked pushed her aside and went after him. I think if he hadn't been in a bathroom he probably would have pissed himself. Bathroom being right nest to the HVAC closet was nice too although I doubt Max would have actually mauled him. He is also very protective of kids... All kids, had him take off after a dad playing chase with his daughter once at the park. He has even clamped onto me while wrestling with my daughters. I actually think he may have outsmarted me the other day. To teach Heidi to come I just walk away and leave he alone in the yard. Sooner or later she will realize this and make a dash to be back near me. Well I walked away, the two of them were not in my view. Time passes so I call Max as he always comes, no dogs. Then I hear Max's attack mode bark. So I come running, expecting to be short a dog. He has this "I told you I could make him come to us if I wanted" look on his face, just sitting there.

Put the info from DynDNS in the router's DynDNS page, if you don't have one check for a firmware update. If you manually specify and IP address but do not in reality have a static IP address... Okay it will work and sometimes it will for a while. If however that specific IP is assigned by the ISP's DHCP server to someone else your hosed. You will stay hosed until that other computer's lease is up or it requests a new configuration. So it might work for months might not last through tomorrow. Also your ISP can tell you have done this, it is totally their option weather or not to ever allow you that IP again. If they ban you from it you won't reconnect until you manually change the router config. You should add your DynDNS info to the DynDNS page in your linksys router. You can install the DynDNS client updater on ANY computer on the same local network with the DVR. It doesn't need to be specifically installed on the DVR machine. This is also optional, it's either in the router's config or you use the updater client but you don't need both.

CIF is 320 pixels wide and 240 pixels tall. 240p !!! WOW A transcoder, a good one, can take basically any video format in and spit it back out as any other kind of video or even still images in series. So MJPEG @ 320x240 30fps in can come out as H.264 @ 160x120 5fps which even cell phones should be able to handle.

I think your first assumption is probably pretty sound, there is a whole lot of IR coming from the sun... Consumer "baby monitors" aren't in the same league. It's just like welding and skiing, the spots fade but if you do it enough... Just getting sun blind from IR even slightly makes it obvious that it can and does negatively effect our eyes in some way or another. OSHA says something like 42.5db (action level) over time can cause hearing damage and 84db for 8 hours a day will. 42.5db is not considered "loud" to many people. Then again they don't require testing past 6Khz so you can still not be disabled from hearing loss and legitimately not hear you wife too. What a deal.

If it's RG6u copper you have no problems however the RG6QS normally found at Lowes/Home Depot is always aluminum with aluminum. It's not really like my post portrayed it, you just have to be picky with RG6 to not get aluminum. Yes it will actually function for the most part though so it's not like you won't get a picture at all if you use it. So you can get the correct RG6 from a wholesaler (99% special order) but normal DIY people won't have easy access to it. You can also use RG11u for ~30% increase intransmission distance over RG59u. RG6u can go even further. You can test your cable by looking at it. The braid should look like copper (gold color) and the center conductor should too. All the way through, whittle a little and see if it has an aluminum or steel core with copper cladding. You want solid copper, it sucks too cause copper ain't cheap.

Come on you know better then that.

The guy who used to clean my pool... His name was Richard Head, no kidding. Nice guy though.

Most cameras have a UV filter, as UV light scatters in our atmosphere. This is also partially why you can see through things with IR that you cannot with visable light. IR light isn't scattered by the air however it doesn't ultimately travel as far either. This has more to do with the makeup of our atmosphere then anything else though. In a vacuum the outcome is different. As was mentioned campfires produce visable light too so your pupils (iris Scruit lol) will close to prevent damage. UV is the same we can't percieve it so our pupils stay open letting possibly too much through. I know I have seen spots from staring into a campfire before however nobody cares. Anyone who has spend much time servicing real IR gear knows you will see spots eventually. Not good... Also not the same level of IR either. UV is WAY more damaging then IR all around, it is just like with sound a subwoofer (lower frequency) has more more destructive ability then a tweeter (higher frequency). Same for it's ablity to move through stuff, you can hear jack@ss's subs a 1/2 mile away but not much else. Same way UV goes right through your eyelids so closing your eyes doesn't help. I seriously doubt the IR bullets on the consumer market have anywhere near the output needed to really do damage. Your eyes are exposed to soo many multiples of IR every day when you go outside. Even with your pupils contracted there is still such a massive amount of IR out there. I just can't see it being a big health concern. Me personally I would do like I have suggested in the past, just use a low light BW camera and a normal night light. Better safe then sorry I guess.

Don't listen to that, 99% of RG6 is aluminum and NOT DESIREABLE for CCTV use. RG6 is designed for higher frequency digital signals used by cable companies. RG59u with a 95% (or +) copper briad coverage and a solid copper core is the wire you should use.

Thats what you will find, it doesn't help much if any.

Yup just negative it again and it's back like it was. Thats totally a BS feature, as you can see it's pointless as all cameras can do that.

If you format the data correctly it shouldn't be a problem. However you are taking devices specifically used to interface with printer standards.

It goes from POS>Printer not POS>customer display as I think you have it configured. Of at least thats how every data capture I have used worked.

I think she could whip him!

Geovision allows for multiple transmission formats. ie Local recording = high quality MPEG4 Monitoring station = med quality MPEG4 Remote veiw via internet = low quality high speed h.264

I'll also add the density and quench rate of the insulation too. It effects twist more then crimp. I only use twist and occasionally compression. Never had a problem, 10 years in service.

It's nothing that can't be done with all DVRs... Also it can easily be reversed.

The smaller the quantizer the higher quality the result but the more horsepower needed to encode. Frame rate is pretty obvious, your eye percieves about 30 frames per second. It doesn't directly effect quality however it can on objects in motion. Bit rate directly effects quality, the higher the bit rate the more image data is transmitted. You may also have an option to set keyframe interval, a shorter interval will help with transmission across questionable networks as you will have fewer retransmits.

PC component based, unlimited functionality and super easy service. Most pieces are generic off the shelf units. It is no long a "PC" if setup and operated correctly. The line between the two is quickly vanishing. Basically do you want to be able to use 32bit windows applications as well or not. All DVRs are computers just some have a totally integrated mainboard and others have independent interchangable parts. You and The egg... Fish and lizards layed them long before there were chickens.

IIRC that transmits MJPEG, you can transcode that if you like. Whats your budget? The other option is reducing the resolution to CIF, I wouldn't suggest this.

Why can't you trench the last 30 feet? You can do this wirelessly however it's cost will be quite a bit higher.

When installing the software make sure you are installing the Client and not the server app. Some DVRs don't actually need software installed at the clients, you may only need to go the DVR's web server.

Because Cat5 is 24 gauge and most PTZs draw enough power to require 18 gauge. Sure you can double or triple up pairs but if you ever get an open on one... nobody thinks of that though. Obviously this depends on the PTZ in question, since no specific part number was given I just gave a general answer. Since digital PTZs don't have moving parts they don't need nearly the current. (You know the ones I am talking about, few use them.) VST_Man, I have seen you mention mini-PTZs before in the past, those may well be able to be used this way. (Feel free to PM me info on them, I have been meaning to ask you about them.)