I’ve been told that this is ‘not on the top of the list’ (like the Cobra 427?), but I would so love to be able to put up a webcam in Haven’s room for family to be able to see! It fits with my general geekiness, and who wouldn’t want to watch us get ‘blessed’ by the fruit of our loins?
I’ve looked at several of them, and so far the best ones are the following:
Linksys WVC54GCA
http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/WVC54GCA
D-Link DCS-920
http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=664
Both of them are wireless, which is nice because although I do have an ethernet port drawn to that room, it is at the bottom of the wall, and would mean routing more cat5 cable through the wall to get there. As it is, I’m already going to have to do that with power, and don’t really want any more hassle. Besides, the wireless capability will make it easy to move the camera elsewhere if we decide.
I’m a fan of Linksys… particularly since they were acquired by Cisco. I’ve never really liked D-Link stuff, but have seen good reviews of this camera. They are both priced about the same… but the one feature that stands out is the ability to stream Quicktime / Real / Windows Media from the Linksys device. I’m not sure if I would wind up using that… would probably just opt for using FTP and have the pictures uploaded when there was movement in the room… but still a neat feature.
I think that the D-Link has a java admin… while the Linksys requires ActiveX … which would mean that I could not use the web interface on the Mac without using Paralells.
So yeah… I’m torn. 
