Idiot Proof setup, but will not stay operating for more than a few hours at a time.
936542
I have to admit that I was quite skeptical

amera being so easy to setup and use, but I am here to tell you that the claims are largely true! While it may take a bit more than one minute to setup, it was amazingly fast and completely idiot proof. My one complaint and the only reason I didn't give this product five stars is that no where did I see it say you had to have a windows or apple computer to setup the camera. This was a major issue for me since I don't own a "computer" anymore since wall the things I did can be accomplished with my tablet or smartphone. Besides that, once setup, everything can be done with your iPhone or Android device.
The picture quality is exceptable, and everything works just fine, but another bit of information not disclosed is the fact you cannot use your own cloud drive but if you want to record you are forced into paying for dropcam's cloud drive. I am already paying for a cloud drive and am not interested in paying yet again for their services.
UPDATE: After using this camero for a few weeks now I must say I extremely disappointed! First, the TalkBack feature hasn't worked from day one, and my attempts to get support have been frustrating to say the least. I give them every bit of information possible, and they don't bother to read the email, asking for the exact same information I already provided them, in an apparent attempt to stall the process. Also, and this is much more of an issue, the camera WILL NOT stay connected to the network, dropping out at least 3 times a day, requiring me to unplug the device for a minute and then waiting 5 minutes for it to reconnect. If I was out of the house, this would mean that the camera would be dead until I returned, negating the very reason for having the device in the first place!
I am still quite impressed at the ease of setting up the camera, once I found a PC to do it from, since you cannot use your tablet or smartphone to do the setup from. But this is the only positive thing about this camera. My advice is to pass on this device and find one that is more consistent in it's operations.

UPDATE: Recent software updates have resolved my issues with this camera. Currently this camera is working very well, I still cannot understand why the refuse to offer an outdoor version, if they did, I would buy several. Overall, I wholeheartedly recommend this device now and am planning to purchase at least one more for indoor use.
415618
This KVM will lock up about once a day when the computers are inactive and will not respond to any user input (video, mouse, keyboard, button on the unit etc...)  The only way to fix it is to unplug the unit (no power button to turn it off/on either).

I called IOGEAR and they said this lockup is NORMAL.  They are trying to blame the problem on the computer saying I need to turn on WakeOnLan setting...  I'm not sure how WakeOnLan is going to keep the IOGEAR KVM from locking???

Go with the Linksys stuff.  I have used theirs in the past an it worked flawlessly with the same setup.
558657
Sadly, no amount of tinkering or reconfiguration would get this device to remain stable for more than 24 hours. I tried every trick I could find in the forums. reset to factory, flashed old firmware, flashed new firmware, etc. Set the wireless to single band, manual channel, the works. I made sure to not touch the network map function - as this seems to really break things!

Overall, I'm sadly disappointed with this device. I really wanted to keep it, but after the 5th reset in a single evening that disrupted family movie / game night... it was time to throw in the towel and accept that that this was never going to work as expected.
3980792
I almost fell in love with this thing when I first got it. It does everything it says it does well, and it's easy to set up. Configuration is done through any web browser so a monkey should be able to do it. Unless for some reason you should get the response "unable to find server" from your web-browser during this process. It's absolutely ridiculous to get a response like that from a box that's just down the hall, directly connected to my computer. This thing locks up constantly and brings my internet connection down every time, something Linksys is obviously aware of because they address it in the users manual -- Push the reset button and things'll clear right up. Unfortuantely this rarely clears anything up, the real solution is to turn it off then back on, but there's no power switch, so you have to reach around the back, unplug the cord, then try to blindly plug it back in. I eventually plugged it in to a power strip so I could just flip the switch on the strip, but this turns off everything else plugged in with it. If this thing were sitting next to my computer instead of in another room with my DSL modem, and I didn't have to move from my chair to make it work, I might be satisfied. But leaving my computer to turn on my internet connection is a little like going to the kitchen to turn on the bedroom light -- Just plain stupid, and definitely not worth the money.
2432436
Does the job, occasional resets needs, but is back up and running quickly.
2259537
As a few people have noted, eventually this unit starts producing false positives at unpredictable intervals.  Not so good when you are alerted while away from home that your garage door is open. Or maybe the same alert in the middle of the night while asleep.  Another helpful reviewer noted that the issue is fixable by wiring in a mercury tilt switch in parallel with the existing ball bearing gravity switch.  I just ordered&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/5mm-Mercury-Tilt-Switch-Mercury-Switch-0-3a-20v-Pack-of-20/dp/B00O9QVM44/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">5mm Mercury Tilt Switch Mercury Switch 0.3a/20v Pack of 20</a>&nbsp;and will do that when they arrive and update this review if I'm successful.  Also, we have a detached garage - in order for this to work, it took installing a Z-Wave repeater (<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Aeon-Labs-Aeotec-Z-Wave-Range-Extender-Repeater-DSD37-ZWUS/dp/B00K7QZUZM/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Aeon Labs Aeotec Z-Wave Range Extender/Repeater (DSD37-ZWUS)</a>&nbsp;in the garage on the opposite wall nearest the house to get the signal that far.  After installing this, I later used a relay&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Remotec-Zwave-Dry-Contact-Fixture-Module/dp/B00913ATFI/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Remotec Zwave Dry Contact Fixture Module</a>&nbsp;to control the garage door itself by wiring it to the wired garage door opener on the wall.  As the relay should act as a repeater itself, the additional repeater may not be necessary.  But I don't jiggle my stuff once it works!

Updated July, 2016.
After more false positives, I finally cut out the ball bearing tilt switch (the metal cylinder)  and wired in a mercury switch to replace it.  It is a bit of a delicate operation but ended up not being that hard.  So far so good.  I'll update after a month on the false positive issue.
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A few weeks later and the mercury switch has definitely fixed the false positives - not one since I wired it in.
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Several months later this still works perfectly reliably after my modification.
2244569
I have used this for about a week now. Setup was a blast and I love the design.

But in order to act as a security camera it needs to stay connected for more than a couple of hours, which so far it hasn't managed to do.

I've sought remedies, reset the station, moved it close (only 20ft to start anyway). I have a consistent 100mbs/20mbs internet connection too, so i can be sure thats not the problem. A quick search will lead to many others with the same problem.

At $150 a piece and a name like Netgear I expected much better. But fortunately Amazon IS a name I can trust so returning it won't be a hassle.
4280662
It is really cool - when it works.  But unfortunately it is in a non-working state most of the time.  It randomly drops its network connection, and rarely stays connected for more than an hour.

 It can get it to re-connect by manually turning the bulb off and on, but what use is the remote control when have to manually reset the bulb all the time?

The company says it is "working tirelessly" to fix the problem.  But what they really need to do is fire the people who wrote their software/firmware and hire some programmers who can write software that actually works.
3816656
it worked for maybe a month and now since then we have had to reset sometimes multiple times a day.  It may only work for 1 hour at a time.  It is very frustrating, especially since we have SmartThings devices connected to it.
2621929
If this product actually worked, it would be the cat's A$$ (awesome). But it doesn't. I tried one, it crashed several times, I exchanged it and the replacement crashed several times. It would start failing only a few hours after starting up and would never stay up more than three days straight. Other reviewers prove that there is certainly a hardware defect that causes it to burn out within 3 months. I'm returning it now, I'm looking at the Apple AirPort Extreme and the Cisco RV220W.
1573328
I am by no means a computer idiot, I audit computer systems security for a living. I have had to contact customer support (webchat) at least 3-4 times during the first 30 days of installing the software. The install was on a brand new system (Windows XP Pro), with all of the Microsoft patches and service packs and little to nothing else installed.

First Pest Patrol would crash numerous times a day until technical support walked me through a complex workaround to prevent an Active Protection error window appearing over 100 times every 10 minutes (which you had to click to clear each one). Second, the firewall would tell me I was not authorized to visit certain webpages until technical support walked me through a complex process of deleting certain files created by the firewall and resetting the firewall after a process involving safe mode. Third, Pest Patrol never would run a thorough scan. I'd receive two separate errors that either said a fatal error occurred with the Pest Patrol GUI, or that system resources was not available. I contacted the customer support and they told me that yes, sometimes Pest Patrol doesn't work at all unless you use MSCONFIG to disable all startup services (systems.ini, etc) reboot, run Pest Patrol, then use MSCONFIG to enable the startup services. It was a canned reply during a live web session, which means that the operators were probably used to giving since it likely occurs to many people.

I haven't tried out the third solution yet because I wanted to remind myself to write an Amazon review.

If you are looking for simplicity, or don't know much about computers, look elsewhere. Otherwise you will be in for one major headache trying to implement several technically involved workarounds. I'll give it two stars, since it didn't cause my dog to choke, explode my house, or cause irreparable damage to clothing (which is my one-star).
3275211
I have owned one of these KVMs for ~3 years. I mostly used it to switch between two desktops side by side. I didn't use the video portion as I had two monitors and I didn't use the audio as I only cared about sound from one of the desktops. Not sure why I have put up for it this long but I finally ripped it out.

It loves to randomly switch you. I can kind of understand when a machine boots that it might switch then, but occasionally it will switch for no reason at all. Another huge annoyance is after it switches it won't switch again for ~10 seconds. This means you will be doing something and it will switch you, you swear under your breath and go to push the button to switch back, but you have to keep trying before it will finally switch again.

As other reviewers have mentioned, it occasionally locks up and both lights will be displayed. When this happens, you have to crawl under the desk and disconnect it from both computers and then replug it in. This tends to happen when cold booting one of the computers.

I don't have a need for a KVM anymore, but if I did, I think I would get one without all the fancy auto switching capability since I want to be in control instead of it 'intelligently' switching.
2070601
The drive worked for almost 96 hours before becoming completely invisible to the BIOS.  Apparently these guys still can't figure out how to address Suspend & Hibernate states.  Great speed; crazy fast boot - but it's too unreliable for me to try to work on it.
3412922
When power is lost to it or it's turned off, it loses it's settings.  Also, not as easy to configure as it seems.  After three months of support, you end up with something that doesn't work.
1297948
The unit seems to require daily power cycle to keep it happy and functioning.  That's not very dependable.

Even when it does work,  there is quite a bit of latency, and much reduced bandwidth.
1075618
Pretty savvy guy. I have many devises. This product in particular is a POS! The auto rotate works when it feels like it and this unit will not detect a wifi network period.
1473898
Timeout on the mini should be a setting option - I need a 12 hour timeout on one of my three Mini's that should run un-attended,