I brought the camera into my workplace where I have Virtual PC, and installed the Toshiba Camera Finder. I also had to switch my IP address in VPC to 192.168.0.50 and the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0. It did not specify a router address.
So, I open the software after hooking the camera up to the network, and it finds the camera. I can login either as an admin or guest. Clicking on the camera in the list simply brings up a browser window to either the root level (
http://192.168.0.30/) or the admin login page (
http://192.168.0.30/admin.htm).
I do not think a PC is needed to access and configure the camera. In addition to the admin login method described above, the camera defaults to DHCP. If you can figure out what the auto-assigned IP address of the camera is after you plug it into your DHCP network, you can access it via that IP address in your browser. The Toshiba tech gave me this tip but left out the actual page that I needed to access, which is
admin.htm. Just typing in the DHCP-assigned IP address only gets you to the guest login, and you'll be where I was last night, confused, lost and frightened. Well, maybe just frustrated.
ANYWAY, I don't know what the Apple firmware I was emailed will accomplish for me, but I installed it anyway. The camera accepted it and rebooted.
I took a couple of screenshots to give you an idea of video quality. These were taken using 640x480 picture size and "MIDDLE" picture quality.
http://www.hazmatt.net/external/maco...snapshot_1.jpg http://www.hazmatt.net/external/maco...snapshot_2.jpg
I will post any further impressions that I have as I come across them.