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Rating: - Buy other D-Link cameras or spend a little more on a Panasonic.
I bought this, a Panasonic Wireless camera, and a Toshiba IK-WB15A wired camera to sample externally-facing cameras for my home. The Toshiba is the best (and the most expensive), the Panasonic is acceptable during the day and a little more expensive, but the D-link is a huge disappointment.

The D-Link DCS-950 doesn't share video via MPEG or Motion-JPEG, unlike some of the other D-Link cameras. It requires a proprietary ActiveX browser plugin, so if you're running Mac OS X, Linux, etc., you'll either need to use Virtual PC or similar technology, or be happy with the single frame snapshots. Also as a result, a lot of the security DVR software will not work with this camera, so check the supported hardware list of any of these packages that you're using, or are thinking about using.

The worst thing is the camera stability. I don't mean physical, although that's very bad, too -- the software crashes frequently and requires power cycling (unplug and replug) to reactivate. As a result, this camera can't go anyplace remote or difficult to access, and can't be relied upon to watch your house if you're not home.

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Rating: - Best Light Level poor support for cable modem network
This is the best low light IP camara I have found in its price range. However I also own an Linksys IP camara and found their software to be far more intuitive and user friendly. They also include support for cable modem style network (DHCP) sharing so you can broadcast the feed to the world. The Linksys was poor in low light situations though. Linksys's motion triggered event software =was much better out of the box as well.

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Rating: - Figured it Out Finally
Finally figured out how to get around the constant rebooting issue. You shouldn't have to do this but the Camera does give a good picture. Once you open a browser and assuming you can log on and connect the first time, and after you have logged off, don't close the browser or go to another Web page on the same browser. Just minimize it and open another Browser for other Net activity. When you want to connect to the camera again, restore your minimized browser. You should have the Connect screen to sign in with. Have done this process the past few days and have connected everytime. It appears that when you log off from the camera and then go to other websites and then go back to try and log in again is when the reboot issue seems to come up way to often. Had also upgraded to the latest Firmware and that didn't seem seem to make any difference.

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Rating: - A Poor Product
You never can tell how to qualify opinions like this. I'm a big fan of Dlink cameras. I own and use at work 4 models. This one however is a HUGE disappointment. Here are some points:

1) The camera is very unstable. I upgraded to the latest (1.03) firmware version to be sure I wasn't outdated. The camera locks up at times requiring a factory default to fix. Of course, then you have to spend time configuring again. I've found that turning on "night shot" and sending to e-mail causes a lockup 100% of the time. I've also locked up the camera a few other times and I haven't yet figured out a pattern.

2) Limited functionallity. My other DLink cameras have nice features like upload to FTP and an image that can be pulled and used on websites and such. This one does not. It does have some kind of random image thing that allows you to view an image but since the filename is random, you can't do much with it.

3) Missing timestamp. When you record video, there is no date/time stamp. Support Case ID "DLK397450207" from DLink: "It does not have a date & time stamp." That seems like a dumb thing to do.

4) Inoperability with Server 2003. Support Case ID "DLK397450207" from DLink: "I know we tend to have issues with windows 2003 OS". In other words, if you're thinking about uploading images to Server 2003, forget it.

I bought this because I need a low-lux camera. When I can get a night shot picture, it does look ok. But not much use to me when I have all these problems.

Summary: Move on to the next product. Sorry Dlink. You failed on this one.

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Rating: - Very bad camera, don't waste your time or money
At the computer store I help out with, I have tried to set up the camera and everything went wrong. Poor software, poor documentation and everything else went wrong. Do not buy the camera at all. It is a waste of money and it isn't even worth trying to get it to work properly.