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I think price vs performace a Vivotek FD8134 would do ok here. It is a 1.3 MP dome for about $300. If the area you have to cover is ~20 feet I would think it would work just fine.

Ok, so I did get a better answer from the devs and did a little testing of my own. With different camera manufacturers, we have to request settings differently. Some camera makes require that every "call" for settings is sent individually, while other manufacturers can send all settings in one call. This is what makes the difference between a 3 second connection and a 1 minute connection. If you must definitely have a fast initial connect time, you could speed this up a lot by giving the camera a view only username and password. the downside to this is you won't be able to change any camera settings in exacq, but it will connect fast. Tested this with an IQ511 Hope this helps

Chad understood and I will look into it but I think Exacq reconnects better to some manufactures then others. You're right about that. This is because Exacq has different plugins written for each manufacturer. I'll try to get you a more complete answer than that.

Exacq autoreconnects every 5 minutes. If it can't connect to a camera in the first 10 seconds it waits 5 minutes by default. You can now change this value in 4.6 under System Setup > Network.