Promising spec, but poor in reality - the TP-Link NC220 Wireless IP camera., 7 Sept. 2015

Given the usual reliability and reputation of TP-Link products, I really wanted to like the NC-220 Wireless IP Cloud Camera, but unfortunately it failed on two important features.

To start with the few positives, the camera is well built, supplied with an extra power extension cable (useful thought) and it was an absolute doddle to set up and have streaming over my Android device with the TP-Camera app. Resolution was very acceptable and the functions and reliability of the app worked well.

However, the two fundamental requirements this model failed on were it's field of view and night time use.

The field of view is (in my opinion), far from adequate at only 64°; this leaves a lot of blind spots in most rooms, regardless of where you position the camera.

Night vision however, was absolutely appalling. I wasn't expecting miracles given this is a budget domestic product, however the NC-220 is advertised as having a good night vision function. To quote from TP-Link's...

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Dont touch it with a bargepole unless you want several more grey hairs, 2 Mar. 2017

Don't go there unless you want to waste 6 hours of your life like I did waiting for TP Link helpdesk to sort a problem. I purchased this unopened, brand new, straight out of the box camera and before it could work it needed a firmware update which TP Link website could not provide as the update on their website was not working properly. Nor was it working at their end their operative cheerfully informed me! Now I am not computer illiterate, and class myself as quite intelligent, but what followed was 6 hours (yes SIX HOURS!!) of discussion with the helpdesk (which personally I think should be renamed but I am too polite to say to what) until eventually I lost all hope as it was then 11pm at night and quite frankly having come in from a hard days work at 5pm (having not eaten all day), I rather wanted to have something to eat and go to bed before I had to get up again to go back to work.

Shocking service from TP link - if your cameras wont work without a firmware update, at...

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No speaker but gives a great picture., 20 Mar. 2017

Bought this to make sure our dog didn't eat up the sofa, the main reason I bought this one was due to how easy it is to set up. Pretty simple as long as you follow the instructions. My only disappointment was that there is no speaker so we couldn't tell the dog to stop if he was doing something he shouldn't. But gives a very clear picture and night vision works great.

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