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See and hear in perfect detail with the Arlo Q HD security camera. Experience a new sense of security with 1080p HD video, night vision, and 2-way audio. Arlo Q alerts you whenever motion or sound is detected and notifies you with instant alerts so you never miss an important moment again.
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I was looking for security with that support wireless without running the wires throughout the house. The Netgear Arlo Q easily meet my requirements.
Setup: out of the box, there are the camera, power wire and manual. After plug the power to the camera, download the Arlo app and follow the a couple steps with creation of the account and it up and running. It took me around 10 minutes to complete the setup which is dead simple. Connect to my wifi and ready to go. No messing around with the network wires.
Features: There are many features but I want to highlight a few that I like. The camera resolutions supports from 240p to 1080p. There 5 resolutions you can set. I picked the default 720p which looks great. The lighting and video are clear with my typical dark living room. There is a talk feature where you can speak to your phone and it come out to the speaker on the camera. It's a 2-way communication which I found to really cool. You can hear all the sound from the location of the camera. You you options to record, take picture and have it send you the alert via the app notifications and/or email. The alert is instantaneous. You can arm the camera base on schedule or manually set when you are away. The free 7-day storage of video is the best feature where you don't need to spend additional money for a typical home security needs.
Performance: The picture quality is great. The night vision camera is very nice as well but the distance is limited. There is around 3-4 seconds lag in the video and around 2 seconds lag for audio. I have the camera running for 3 days without any issue. I noticed the Arlo app does takes around 5 seconds to connect to the camera so expect a little lag here as well. You can set the monitor zone which is a very nice feature since you only want to detect motion only in certain area of the house.
The Arlo Q exceeds my expectations especially on the setup, free 7-day storage, simple hook up if you need to move the camera to a different location and the very easy arm and disarm features of the camera. I tried the app when I was a way from home and it works great over cellular. It just really cool to be able to watch your house when you are on vacation or away from home.
I got this camera for free as part of the first look review program. I will definitely buy a second one to add it to the backside of my house.
I got this camera for free as part of the first look review program. I will definitely buy a second one to add it to the backside of my house.
My Best Buy number: 0573873766
I would recommend this to a friend!
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No more WiFi dead spots. The powerful Nighthawk DST AC1900 WiFi Router along with the DST WiFi adapter eliminates WiFi dead zones. Create additional WiFi coverage right where you want it. The DST Router comes with a year of worry-free set up and support from Geek Squad.
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I am fortunate to be apart of the test program for the Nighthawk DST AC1900 Wireless-AC Gigabit Router with DST Adapter. My bedroom is a dead spot in the house and the DST adapter turn out the be the best solution.
Setup:
The direction for the setup is very straight forward. I connect the router to my cable modem and plug it into the wall outlet (you have to use the wall outlet in order to communicate with the DST adapter). Once the router is on, I plug the DST adapter to an outlet in my bedroom. The adapter established the connection to the router fairly quickly with the indicator on the adapter showing blue and green which means the connection is good. Next, I configure the outer using Netgear Genie using the wizard. I also connected my USB 3.0 hard drive and configured via the Netgear Genie to use as my NAS. The router firmware needs to updated during the initial setup. The GUI is intuitive and has many other features like guest network and QoS with I plan to use in the future.
The Test:
My cable speed is 100+MB. I connected to the adapter using 5Ghz was able to get the strong signal and speed at 92MB in my bedroom which used to be the dead spot. I used to get drop connection while watching Netflix in the living room and now not any more. The power line DST adapter is great and now i have good signal and speed throughout my house.
The beauty about the DST adapter is you can plug it to any room outlet where there's known dead spot which is great. Previously, I tried to use the WIFI bridge to solve the dead spot problem but it was not reliable and it's only supported 2.4GHz band at the time. The DST adapter proved to be the best solution for me.
A couple things to note is the router do run hot and the blue light is little bright so you need to consider the appropriate placement for the router. Tip: you should try each of the wireless channels and determined the best one to use in your case.
Setup:
The direction for the setup is very straight forward. I connect the router to my cable modem and plug it into the wall outlet (you have to use the wall outlet in order to communicate with the DST adapter). Once the router is on, I plug the DST adapter to an outlet in my bedroom. The adapter established the connection to the router fairly quickly with the indicator on the adapter showing blue and green which means the connection is good. Next, I configure the outer using Netgear Genie using the wizard. I also connected my USB 3.0 hard drive and configured via the Netgear Genie to use as my NAS. The router firmware needs to updated during the initial setup. The GUI is intuitive and has many other features like guest network and QoS with I plan to use in the future.
The Test:
My cable speed is 100+MB. I connected to the adapter using 5Ghz was able to get the strong signal and speed at 92MB in my bedroom which used to be the dead spot. I used to get drop connection while watching Netflix in the living room and now not any more. The power line DST adapter is great and now i have good signal and speed throughout my house.
The beauty about the DST adapter is you can plug it to any room outlet where there's known dead spot which is great. Previously, I tried to use the WIFI bridge to solve the dead spot problem but it was not reliable and it's only supported 2.4GHz band at the time. The DST adapter proved to be the best solution for me.
A couple things to note is the router do run hot and the blue light is little bright so you need to consider the appropriate placement for the router. Tip: you should try each of the wireless channels and determined the best one to use in your case.
My Best Buy number: 0573873766
I would recommend this to a friend!
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See and hear in perfect detail with the Arlo Q HD security camera. Experience a new sense of security with 1080p HD video, night vision, and 2-way audio. Arlo Q alerts you whenever motion or sound is detected and notifies you with instant alerts so you never miss an important moment again.
It has a wire in all the photos. Is it truly wireless?
It's wireless camera. The only wire the the power plug to run the camera.
8 years, 2 months ago
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No more WiFi dead spots. The powerful Nighthawk DST AC1900 WiFi Router along with the DST WiFi adapter eliminates WiFi dead zones. Create additional WiFi coverage right where you want it. The DST Router comes with a year of worry-free set up and support from Geek Squad.
Can this be used with DSL?
Yes
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