Toshiba IK-WB11A Webcam

Pros: Great hardware
Cons: horrible software/firmware

This camera could have been a super product, the greatest of all Internet cameras, if it wasn't for its low quality firmware. What a shame!

I short - it's unreliable. The features such as alarm, email, recording, WEP, etc. sometimes work sometime don't. I have been actively using the camera for almost 2 months and I can tell you that not much care has gone into testing, Q/A with the software. What makes it hard for me to understand is that how could such a great idea end up such a failure. When the camera works - almost 75% of the times - you say to yourself Wow! that's fantastic. But the trouble is that it's just so erratic that for me and I daresay for most people as of now, it's just useless.
I want to use this camera for security and I have found that almost all the advertised features are unreliable. Unless somebody fixes the software/firmware problems with the camera, the product is doomed.

Pros: REAL 1280x960 image. Full Color in Extreme Low Light. Beautiful images!
Cons: User Interface is shabby and half-baked.

I have a collection of wired and wireless web cameras hanging from various parts of my house. This camera has the clearest, sharpest picture PERIOD! It sees in the dark! With the slow shutter mode engaged it only updates the frame once a minute or so, but it's full color 1280x960! If you want to see in the dark at 15fps, then turn the slow shutter mode off and you get grainy black & white, but you can see everything.

As others have mentioned, the user interface stinks out loud. Only the administrator and use presets and the email alarm mode doesn't seem to work at all. I don't know if Toshiba intends to improve the software, but if they support this camera they can own the market. It beats the snot out of the more expensive Panasonic PSTV02J (which I'll sell to anyone who wants a couple still in the box).

While this is a wireless B camera, the only way to utilize it to is fullest is to hardwire it to your network. 11mbps doesn't provide the bandwidth for a 1280x960 stream.

Pros: Incredible night vision. Pan and tilt. Clear, sharp picture. Multiple resolutions.
Cons: Clunky web setup. Somewhat difficult getting it to recognize the wireless network.

I bought this camera for parking lot surveillance at an apartment complex. I have never written an epinions review, but after hooking up the camera and seeing its night vision performance, I just HAD to let people know.

During setup, I pointed the camera out my window to my darkened yard below. I live in a secluded area, and let me tell you... it is DARK. To my utter amazement, the camera auto-adjusted to show what looked like a DAYTIME COLOR IMAGE of my yard. I was flabbergasted. This camera's low light functionality is like nothing I have ever seen. The image gets a little grainy when viewing dark areas, but it is still amazing. For night vision, I was expecting, at best, a B&W grainy image with little detail. The picture provided by this Toshiba camera (in what looks like total darkness) rivals some color web-cams' performance in broad daylight.

The camera itself is incredibly sturdy and has an "industrial-strength" feeling.

The setup is a little clunky, but not terrible.

For any type of surveillance where night-time viewing is a necessity, I would highly, highly recommend this camera.