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D-link Dvc -1100, I2eye Wireless Broadband Videophone

US $450

Bessemer, Alabama, United States
Jun 9th

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New D-Link DVC-110 Wireless Broadband Videophone. See product description for details. Product Descriptuion: Model: DVC-1100 Sugg. Price: $249 Pros: good audio and video quality, Cons: will force 802.11g networks into mixed modeD-Link's Ethernet-based DVC-1000 i2eye Broadband Videophone was a significant product when first released last year. Although videoconferencing gear was hardly a new phenomenon, the majority of prior offerings were marred by a high price, poor quality, or in some cases, both. In addition to being relatively easy to set-up and use, the DVC-1000 was also inexpensive to purchase and offered reasonable video and audio quality for those users with a fast broadband connection. About the only practical drawback was that, in an era where wireless networks were becoming commonplace, the DVC-1000 required a wired 10/100 Ethernet connection (though that limitation could be circumvented with a Ethernet-to-wireless adapter). The need for any amount of wire is no more with the advent of the i2eye Wireless Broadband Videophone(model DVC-1100). As the incremental nomenclature implies, the DVC-1100 is a strong relation to its predecessor. In fact, the technical specifications are identical, save for the DVC-1100's addition of internal wireless capability. Physically, the DVC-1000 and DVC-1100 are essentially carbon copies, with the only difference being the latter's antenna (removable via reverse-SMA connector). Otherwise all the same ports-- 10/100 Ethernet, microphone, RJ-11 phone handset, and composite video and audio-- are still there, and almost in the same place. The remote control has been reworked slightly and is now svelter.The DVC-1100 is a so-called 802.11b+ device, based on the TI ACX1100 chipset, and is thus capable of the 22 Mbps data rate and 256-bit WEP encryption that chipset supports. In my tests, the DVC-1100 easily associated with several 802.11b, 11b+, and 11g access points using WEP, including non-D-Link units. No browser-based interaction with the DVC-1100 is possible (or necessary), since all interaction directly through the unit's remote control and the on-the-TV-screen interface. As was the case with the DVC-1000, you can configure IP information this way, but with the DVC-1100 you can also scan for and connect to wireless networks and configure WEP keys, all with the remote control. The DVC-1100 will support data rates from 96 to 512kbps and frame rates of up to 30 fps, at either 352x288 or 176x144 resolution. Not surprisingly, given the relatively low data rates used by the video and audio codecs, quality was essentially the same whether the DVC-1100 was connected to the network via Ethernet or wirelessly. Some boxes have signs of wear..