- What region are you located?
What Mfr and model is the main host router?
What wireless modes are you using?
Test cameras with uPnP and uPnP Port Forwarding both enabled on ALL cameras: DCS Cloud (L) Series Camera Configuration and Mydlink.com
I tried using my other computer, a laptop.....same thing really....slow to find the camera, slow to load clips from the SD card in the camera.....and once they do load up, I cannot paly them either on the two PCs or on my android. My main PC is Windows 7 and robust enough to edit HD video with premiere.....my other pc is a windows 10 laptop that is even stronger. My android is a brand new note 4. I cant believe how slow it all is.
Every time I log on to the camera I get the "need to update firmware" message....I cant do that til the extra power supply I ordered arrives.....then i can pull the camera off the ceiling and connect it via ethernet cable to my router and upgrade.....PITA, but I hope it works....
I am also having an issue with the two way audio....terrible sqwaking and feedback when trying to use the two way feature.
Again, maybe a firmware issue???
Otherwise, this is really just a $180 toy.....
$180?! dang
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anyways - you should define what "slow is". It does take a few minutes to download any of these clips from these cameras. That is expected.
Which F/W are you using?
Not sure how it is taking time to "Find" the camera. What are you using? What does your network look like? I do have some issues with cameras behind some switches some times.
re: best buy ad---yeah, thats on sale today. LOL -- I paid $169 and 7% sales tax a month or two ago in store....so sorry, I mispoke....180.83 actually...I rounded down.
re: F/W - 2.11.01 is what is on it (from the store) -- have not yet updated because the first camera I brought home bricked when I tried to do the firmware update wirelessly. According to the tech on the phone, this should have worked fine. According to the manual, it is recommended to so it via hard wire. I didnt catch that the first time. It bricked when the update failed via wireless. I exchanged the camera and held off on the firmware update and installed it on my ceiling and concealed the power cable to try it out for a bit first, figuring that most products do not need a FW update right out of the box for major functionality. I have since ordered a spare power supply so I can take the camera down and hook it up directly and try the F/W update. Not really looking forward to that, given the first failed attempt.
On my win 7 system, running avast antivirus.....I have to turn off the shields altogether of it wont work at all....I would understand that maybe except that on my win 10 laptop with avast I dont have to turn the shields off. But ok, so I have to turn avast off......forget that for a second.
On the win 7 and win 10 machines, the initial logon using Mydinklink is fine.....it tells me the firmware etc quickly. Its when you click on the live, SD card or settings tabs ...on both machines it takes 45 seconds to a minute to bring anything up. Then if you click on the settings tab, it takes 15-30 seconds to bring THAT up.
if I click on the SD card tab, it takes 15-30 seconds to bring the first SD card screen up and then 15-30 seconds to load each screen after that.
On both machines, it takes a good 30 -60 seconds for the clips to load onto the screen...and another 15-30 seconds to "play" a clip....which brings up the window but never plays.
I am using Firefox and have gone through the multiple troubleshooting sequence they provide for it. Cannot play the clips on either system.
Same experience when using android as well, really. SLOW access times and completely unable to play the video clips that have been recorded....they eventually load/download but can never play...I get a black screen in android.
On the box, it talks about how easy it is to look a recorded clips on "the cloud"........easy my left eye.
My network isnt all that complicated.....a comcast xfinity dual band wifi router/modem......Typical windows firewalls and avast virus software. Everything else works great.....just this camera seems to be wonky.
I am not alone, looking around at reviews online --- many others have had issues. I do not profess to be a network guru....but the box seems to indicate you do not need to be.......but so far I am not finding this to be a very friendly unit as far as fine tuning it. I usually like tinkering with this stuff....I just built my own mid-to-high end video editing PC (welll, high end for me...LOL) and it hums along beautifully.....but this camera is giving me fits , it is so cranky to figure out.
By the way, I was just reading some other posts --- some folks say "make sure the wireless signal is good before updating the F/W".....When I tried to do the F.W update via wireless the first time, the signal couldn't get any better.....the camera was sitting within 3 feet of the wireless router. Signal strength was not the issue. SO I am very worried about attempting the F/W update even with the ethernet cable hookup. But I cant go on seeing the dang "firmware must be updated" warning EVERY TIME I access it, risking my tapping the "update" button instead of "cancel" and bricking it again.
Also, another update -- if I go into the "advanced" interface, I can at least download the individual video files. But when trying to view thru the MYDLINK.COM pages, no dice.
Thanks for any helpful feedback.
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