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[mec9t8]

I am new to the D-Link Network camera. Just have a few newbie question hope you guys can help.

1) Am I using any internet bandwidth when I video monitoring under the same home network (using iphone app or thru mydlink.com)?
2) When I video monitoring outside home network (ie away from home), roughly how much bandwidth usage we are talking about?
3) How secured is the video transmission? when outside home network, is the video signal transfer to mydlink.com first then to my mobile device?

Sorry for the newbie question Thanks again.

P.

[mec9t8]

Anyone knows about the question? or give me any hint?
Thanks in advance

P

[peterd]

Hi,

1) No internet bandwitdh is used if watching or monitoring video on a PC or device that is on your LAN.  Not sure how the iphone app works but it shouldn't if you're accessing it locally on your network.  I would suspect internet bandwidth is used when accessing thru mydlink.com as that's an internet site.

2) I havn't monitored this but I'm accessing a live video feed now from a camera at home and the network usage is hovering around 90KB/s with a 640x480 display.

3) I don't believe the video transmission is secure.

Peter

[JavaLawyer]

1. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the mydlink site simply establishes a direct connection between the DCS-932L and client. So, if the client is on the LAN, the data stream should be confined to your LAN.  Remote access, however, will clearly require a data stream from your LAN to the client elsewhere on the Internet.

2. The size of the data stream will vary greatly depending on whether the video is in Day Mode versus Night Mode. Night mode is a black and white stream, which will consume significantly less bandwidth than a comparable color video stream.

3. As the previous poster stated, the video stream is not secure.