I have frequent internet outages, will this monitor still work or will it only work over a WIFI connection?
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To the best of my knowledge it may record and alert but cannot transmit if your wifi is down or you can't get a 3G connection
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Then do not buy this. As a matter of fact. Never buy it. Even with full coverage and power it works not at all.
1436586
Check other responses, but it really only communicates during setup. Once you have devices added and timers set, it pretty much never uses the Internet until you add another device or change the setup/config.
777955
Do not bother. It will not fix the problem if you are constantly dropping your internet connection over WiFi. I sent mine to Acer and they replaced the WiFi/Blutooth card. It still has the same problem, making it almost useless on WIFI. Amazon should take these all back and refund our money. Check the Acer forums or google and see how many people are having this problem. I will never buy another Acer product
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Hello Baba, thanks for your question. WiFi Baby and HomeMonitor are completely different systems, only the look of the monitor is the same - WiFi Baby is not cloud/server based to start with - please reach out to us at the contact info at WiFi Baby's website for more info. WiFiBaby.net | sales@wifibaby.net
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I have no trouble with Wifi connection. I gave had the comp for quite sometime now. Hope this helps. Best.
1247694
It's wifi ready, no dongle needed to make it so. It's internet ready through the apps it's programmed with such as amazon movies, youtube, hulu, etc., but only through the apps. You cannot use this as a big screen monitor as is. To make it more "internet useful", you'll need to have the correct equipment and programs i.e. WiDi, add a dongle to stream other stuff perhaps, Push2TV boxes, yada yada.
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I not not sure what the problem is but it could have something to do with where and I using the internet. I had no problems when I was at home but I have recently connected to a hotel internet signal during my stay with them and it get the same error. When plugged the ethernet cable in it worked fined. This leaves me to believe either my wireless board is fried, firmware has been lost, or the hotel has some sort of internet filter that prevents devices like Roku and Play Stations to drain their bandwidth.
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I found a solution. First I tried every channel, no luck, terrible internet throughput. This was on 802.11b/g, which is on the same band (2.4GHz). My solution was to config my home router to 802.11a (5GHz). Now that wifi and this monitor are on totally different bands, they don't interfere and internet performance is good again. Home router is a Netscreen SSG5, which is a power-user (or Enterprise) class "branch-office" router.
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I have not had any issues with internet connection either. Not sure what the one reviewer was referring to. But the drivers should be loaded from the factory.
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I got it connected but the screen flickers every few seconds. I Think I got a defective mini dvi.
1736747
if it was a power outage yes.... one of my units is in a mountain area that frequently losses power. I get an alert that the wifi is out and the later it tells me that it has reconnected.
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This exact thing happened to me. I was incredibly frustrated and spent hours on it trying to figure out the problem. I was never able to connect to the internet, so I gave up and returned it. I was so disappointed. I ran Windows diagnosis and kept getting winsock errors. I'm not computer savvy enough to try and fix it, so back it went. :(
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It is designed to work with Wifi. It will run in an offline mode (without weather schedule changes) if your internet is down.
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I hope this helps you. No you do not need the internet to use around your house, like a baby monitor just wireless or a Ethernet conn (LAN) Local Area Network. YES. If you want to see what is going on around the home when your away. (WAN) Wide Area Network. Set up on the internet must be done. Go to YouTube look for videos of how to set it up.I suggest to download the latest firmware and open a domain account with no-ip.com it is free.Greg
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Any answers on this, by chance? If wifi doesn't work, then I'll just have to stick to my USB hub, external speakers, power and VGA cables! So much for easy portability : 0
1412587
We too were unable to utilize our Wi-Fi when the monitor was on, and we dealt with it for many months. But I found a solution, by accident, but it worked: I saw that my neighbor wi-fi signal and mine were all overlapping on channel 6, so I logged into my wi-fi router by typing the IP address for it in my web-browser (this is how you probably initially set it up some time ago) and change the CHANNEL from "Automatic" to a specific channel...in my scenario i changed it to channel 1. After I did that we get no interference from the monitor and can use wi-fi and monitor seamlessly. Hope this helps. Also, we have a Verizon FIOS router (n) technology.
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The Web 600 is a horrible product. To work it requires a computer to be running on the network full time. A power outage will shut down your computer and thus your Web 600. I have used several types of monitors and would never again buy this one.