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Network World Fusion, 08/05/03
Toshiba’s Imaging Systems group this week announced the IK-WB11a, a wireless (Wi-Fi) network camera that lets users view video streams (1,280 by 960 resolution) across the Internet with a standard Web browser.
The IK-WB11a will ship this month with a retail price of $799, Toshiba said. It includes a 1.4 megapixel progressive scan CCD, a SecureDigital card slot that records to the card should the network go down, an alarm feature, motion detection, and remote pan and tilt features. The camera measures 5- by 5- by 4.7-inches, and includes mounts for indoor or outdoor use, the company said. The camera features a built-in video server, so an on-site PC is not required for its operation (other than a Web browser to configure the camera).
To spark interest in the camera, Toshiba is launching a Web site (the Toshiba NetCam Center) that will offer IK-WB11a users a free dynamic DNS and a unique URL for each of their cameras. For an extra fee, users can receive up to 400G bytes of storage space, chat interface features, a calendar application, e-mail service, credit card processing and “anywhere access” to their cameras and video archives.
Go to the Toshiba Web site for more details.
Need a built-in motion sensor to triger recording.
Posted by: Tom on November 18, 2003 06:56 PMNeed a built-in motion sensor to triger recording.
Posted by: Tom on November 18, 2003 06:56 PMIt has a built in Motion Sensor to Trigger Recording. Check page 54 in the Advanced users guide at the link:
http://www.toshiba.com/taisisd/netcam/adv_usersguide.pdf
One weakness in this camera is that its inability to ftp images up to a website.
This can be done with this camera, but it requires the purchase of a 3rd party software application. I'm not sure why they left the ability to ftp files out of an otherwise outstanding product.
Posted by: Fred on December 3, 2003 03:49 PMThey have updated the firmare now and it does support the ability to FTP the files to a location.
2cpus4me
Posted by: 2cpus4me on December 9, 2003 04:28 PMI have updated the firmware and determined that the ftp feature has a major flaw. It always appends a time stamp to the file name. Therefore in website applications the name is always changing. The files are also filling up the website storage. There appears to be no way to avoid the dynamic filename in the ftp upload function.
Posted by: fred on December 10, 2003 07:56 AMDoes the Camera support MPEG2-4 compression?
The linksys does....
(Without it it is a bandwidth killer if used on a wan)
I know some of the panasonic cameras can ftp and so can the axis network cameras. These are two solid companies. In addition, I found a good deal and solid service from Apex Security Solutions. http://wwww.apexsecuritysolutions.com they offered me software support with my camera and were very helpful.
Posted by: Toshiba4me on March 11, 2004 03:06 PMI know some of the panasonic cameras can ftp and so can the axis network cameras. These are two solid companies. In addition, I found a good deal and solid service from Apex Security Solutions. http://www.apexsecuritysolutions.com they offered me software support with my camera and were very helpful.
Posted by: Toshiba4me on March 11, 2004 03:12 PMI think the big selling point of this camera might be that it is a stand alone product not needing a computer to operate. The idea that you don't have to be onsite ie. computer problems(power outage, reboots,log on's,etc. etc)will make this camera sell well.
Posted by: Dennis on April 17, 2004 10:54 AMGot the camera, and seems like a good product so far, but the WLAN support needs some work. For example there is no reason that it can't pick the channel automatically, and why not at least support WPA? 802.11g would be nice as well. Not so much for the speed, but because one 802.11b device can greatly slow the speed of a 802.11g network.
Only problem, is I can't get WEP working. Without WEP or wired, it works fine. Turn on WEP with the exact 128-bit HEX key that works everywhere else, and no-go.
Posted by: Allen on April 29, 2004 11:53 AMJust picked up a WB01 camera. After several hours of testing/tweaking discovered that a) WEP does not work and b) camera will not interoperate with a Linksys 802.11G router in mixed mode (802.11a/g). Has anyone gotten WEP to work? Time to send it back...
mrb
Posted by: mrb on July 31, 2004 11:32 AMPicked one up a week ago.. WEP DOES NOT WORK!
Their tech support even admits this!..nice....
Posted by: Blair on September 7, 2004 01:57 PMHey Blair,
I dont know what your refering to, but I had their tech support help me set up my WEP and it works just fine. I dont know what tech support you were talking to, but I was shocked they spoke english at this tech support, and werent out sourced to india. Its nice to find tech support that is local in the US and cares to help their customers as this company does.
Posted by: Roger Davis on September 16, 2004 06:50 PMJust found out the problem with WEP - if you use an open key, no dice, but if you switch to a shared key in your Access Point config, it works like a charm...hope that helps...
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