The connections go to servers on the 1e100.net network. I’ve just run a re-test, and with version 0.22.2 of the addon in place and active with gs.netsend.nl selected as the proxy, the connection to “www.google.co.uk” went straight through to “bru01m01-in-f94.1e100.net” (209.85.147.94) a server on the google network.

Mick

I’m wondering if you have any insights on the connections made to Google that bypass the addon? I remember i’ve seen some connections to 1e100.net with older versions of the addon, not sure if they’re still made directly.

I use ixquick. My preference is scroogle, but ixquick comes second. then duckduckgo (stupid name), then bing (yes, I know….)

Cheers

Mick

The Dutch company Ixquick (ixquick.com) has been offering privacy
protected searches for quite some time. However, the prime reason
Google got so big over companies like AltaVista (remember them?) was
because they actually had the best results, and barring the paid-for
inserts that is still often the case.

Thus, ixquick made another site in the US called start startpage.com,
which combines the ixquick privacy idea with search results from Google.

BTW, if you want to annoy Google and Farcebook there are better methods :) :)

Thanks for the comment. Frankly I’m quite impressed that someone from support at TP-Link should have even found this post, let alone bothered to comment. Kudos to you for that. Unfortunately, as I said in the post, it is a shame that the software on your product is so flakey and unreliable because the hardware was actually quite reasonable.

The default IP address first assigned to the camera when I unpacked it was as stated in the documentation – i.e. 192.168.1.10. It did not pick up an address from my DHCP server. Indeed, it could not do so because my DHCP server only assigns addresses if it knows the MAC address of the device requesting it. Further, the address pool runs from .64 to .95 so the 192.168.1.97 address could not possibly have come from my DHCP server after the hard reset (not in the range assigned and the MAC address was not in the allowed list). I suggest you check the networking code on the camera very thoroughly.

I’m glad to hear that you are considering alternatives to Active X. Many people don’t like that technology at all and refuse to use it.

Reproducing the network problem should be easy. I managed it dozens of times before I gave up. Simply assign any available address (other than 192.168.1.10 of course) to the wifi interface and check that both addresses are up. Now unplug the wired interface and watch both interfaces go down. Reboot the camera without the wired connection. No network address available. Now re-insert the CAT5 cable and try again. Both interfaces come up. Try doing the same with a DHCP address assigned to either or both wired and wifi interfaces and you get the same symptoms.

Good luck in fixing it.

Mick

This is Luke from TP-LINK support team. I have ran across this article through google and I apologize if you haven’t had a good experience with TP-LINK products.

Although you have already return this camera I still want to share something here so that it may helpful to others who have also ran across this article.

1. For the strange IP thing. In firmware 1.6.18, the default setting is to get IP through DHCP. If there is no DHCP server available it will auto assign an IP address which is 192.168.1.X by itself. I suppose you just connect the camera directly to your computer after reset so it assign an IP 192.168.1.97 after hard reset.

2. Currently it seems that the compatibility with non-IE browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Safari it no so good. Some features such as snapshot, zoom, audio volume control and motion detection are missing on these browsers because they don’t use ActiveX. We know it is not convenient as more and more users are using these browsers so we are considering other ways to make these features available on these browsers.

3. For the problem you reported I haven’t encounter them before but I will take it seriously and will try to reproduce it. If you can provide me more details via email I will be grateful.

Once again I apologize for any inconvenience caused and hope you don’t lose faith on TP-LINK products. We are always working on to make our products better.

Best Regards

//Luke

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No I can’t. f***book responds: “You have not successfully confirmed a phone number. Please try again.” Having decided I do not wish to provide further personal information, I should have the right to delete that account at the point at which I have successfully authenticated.

And yes, I know that google is a worse offender.

Mick

By the way, it’s not just Farcebook that tries to harass you into providing this data, Google is at it too..

Kindles don’t work well at the bottom of a litter tray. At least, not very long. You can’t scrunch them up and use them for padding when you move. And, worst of all, in this world that is globally warming, insects will breed faster. It remains the sole preserve of a newspaper: swatting flies..