{"id":53543,"date":"2008-05-22T16:34:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ipcamerasupply.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2015-11-30T14:29:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T14:29:01","slug":"buying-an-ip-camera-the-final-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/buying-an-ip-camera-the-final-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying an IP Camera-The Final Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re ready to buy!\u00a0 So what happens now?\u00a0 So many factors could influence a buying decision of this caliber since the choices for products are endless.\u00a0 It&#8217;s almost like choosing one of three doors and hoping for the best, which would be fine if you were Indiana Jones.\u00a0 My goal is to have you walking away from this four-part series with the confidence to buy the right product at just the right price point.<\/p>\n<p>Step one: \u00a0let&#8217;s structure your price point to meet your needs.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re going to make an investment in outdoor surveillance YOU WILL pay more.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s face it, materials and accessories are one surefire way to bulk up your order total.\u00a0 With an approximately 25 percent price difference, a several thousand dollar outdoor setup can be substantially more than your indoor-based IP solution.\u00a0 We&#8217;re not talking about Bazooka Joe bubble gum here, IP surveillance is a big ticket investment.<\/p>\n<p>With that out the way let&#8217;s structure an indoor surveillance solution and you can figure accordingly for the outdoor upgrade.\u00a0 To get started we&#8217;re going to line up three choices with similar functions across the board and rank them by monetary value:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Under $100<\/strong> &#8211; Panasonic BL-C1A Home IP Network Camera 10X Zoom<\/p>\n<p>Weighing in at just under $100, this Panasonic delivers the most basic yet reliable setup.\u00a0 It&#8217;s ideal for any home office or small storefront. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Under $300<\/strong> -Q-See QSIPBL2 Ball IP Network Camera<\/p>\n<p>Another ideal desktop or shelf top solution, this Q-see delivers a little more bang for the buck and includes a built-in web server.\u00a0 You can now access your view from any computer around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Under $500<\/strong> &#8211; TRENDnet TV-IP400W &#8211; Wireless Advanced Pan &amp; Tilt Internet Camera Server<\/p>\n<p>The heavyweight of affordable technology, this TRENDnet is ideal for shelf and small area space.\u00a0 It has wireless access and a built in server, so you can send images via Wi-Fi to your server or access the camera itself from any desktop you sit at.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re ready to buy!\u00a0 So what happens now?\u00a0 So many factors could influence a buying decision of this caliber since the choices for products are endless.\u00a0 It&#8217;s almost like choosing one of three doors and hoping for the best, which would be fine if you were Indiana Jones.\u00a0 My goal is to have you walking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip-camera-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115823,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53543\/revisions\/115823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}