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The app I am using is IP Cam Pro by Robert Chou. I has an option to use " experimental h.264 dvr code". Which I am using.

Maybe it's the app? What android app is everyone using?

Here's the results. I am located just north of Atlanta, GA: Local: Cross Country:

I am 100% sure as the speed is slow even with no computers turned on.

I have nothing else using any bandwidth when I tried to view the cameras.

Not sure what my upload speed is but its probably less than 2mb up. I was able to set the sub stream to a CBR of 40 and do 5fps. Then by using a rtsp stream url I changed the subtype to 1 instead of 0 which I guess means the sub stream? Now when viewing from the mobile app I get about .9fps. This is good enough as I only want to see if someone is walking around my entry points.

How do you access the second stream?

I have a couple Dahua HFW2100 cameras set up at my home. When viewing them from each internal web page it looks fluid real time, however whenever I view remotely from my phone using the IP Cam Pro app I get about 1 frame every 3-6 seconds. It also updates this slow when using my laptop via the internet. Is it because my internet is too slow to upload? I have Comcast cable and have what I thought was a decent upload speed. Thanks in advance!

I'm waiting for the IPC-HDW2100 to come out. It's an outdoor camera but looks compact enough to work well indoors. http://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/ipc-hdw2100-195.html How about the IPC-HDBW3110? Is this an older camera? Looks like it has more IRs, but I am not able to find it for sale and the supplier I use stated it wasn't on sale yet. http://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/ipc-hdbw3110--24.html

Well it seems to have worked. I used the config tool that came on the disc and upgraded the firmware. I am able to run 30fps and it says NTSC. Problem solved.

It has no analog out. Just a RJ-45 port.

I purchased a couple Dahua HFW2100 NTSC cameras from an overseas seller and received PAL versions. The seller has given me a link to download General_IPC-HX2XXX_Eng_N_V2.100.0000.8.R.20120523.bin which should update it to NTSC. Is this possible or do I need to send them back? Thanks.

So I just went and picked up a 5 year old Dell PowerEdge 2950 rack server for $300. It has 2 Xeon quad core 2.33ghz processors, 16gb mem, 2 73gb 15k SAS hdds in RAID, and 6 more empty bays, 2 Gigabit NICs. OS will be Windows 2008. This kills 2 birds as I was going to buy a server for my home media storage. So once I get it up and running I'll try out a few programs to make sure it runs well, and pick up 1 camera to try out.

Hmmmm, the 3216 can be purchased for under $400, but free software on a PC sounds interesting. Would that eliminate the channel restrictions and quality restrictions? Any particular Windows based software that works with a web browser and a good Android app that you recommend? I already plan on building a server for file storage and media use.

When my house was being built I prewired it for security cameras with both CAT5e and RG59 siamese at each location. I was going to use an analog Q-See DVR I just bought but now I am thinking of going digital with a NVR. I like how much cleaner and sharper the picture is with IP cameras. I cant imagine that I would need more than 8 channels now but maybe in the future when cameras are cheaper I could add more. Max 16 channels. How much bandwidth do the cameras use? I would probably use PoE for most of the cameras, so I am trying to figure out if I need a gigabit switch or would a 10/100M be OK? It seems that Dahua is most recommended here. It looks like the DH-NVR3216 would fit my needs now. I have a question on the recording resolution. It says it can do 16@D1, 8@720p, 4@1080p. So if I ran 8 cameras at 720p, that would max it out, correct? Is D1 good enough and if so should I get 1.3MP cameras or would that be a waste if the NVR is only recording at D1? Thanks in advance!