Hawking Technologies claims its HNC290G Wireless-G IP Camera will automatically configure router settings, making setup a snap even for novices. We installed two of them on two different home networks, and in both instances, the auto-configuration mode failed. Once up and running, however, the inexpensive Webcam delivers outstanding video that’s bright and finely detailed.
Hawking did an outstanding job detailing the setup instructions for the camera, which features a built-in Web server and does not need to be attached to a PC. But the setup wizard had trouble reading the router’s DHCP settings, and, when tried configuring the camera for remote viewing on the Web, the novice and semiautomatic modes didn’t work.We manually opened the Web and video ports on our Linksys 802.11g router using the manual-setup option and sailed through the rest of the process.



