I need to purchase a couple outdoor security cameras that will send and save video to a laptop. Preferably wireless and battery-run, and easy for a near-Luddite to set up and run. I've browsed and am confused. Any suggestions?

I would lean away from wireless if possible. Battery run means you have to keep climbing up to them to get them down to recharge the batteries. Wireless usually means they are easily interfered with. When I have purchased them for work (theater), I've had nothing but problems with them. They work fine for one minute, then screwey picture the next. It's amazing what interferes with wireless signals, especially consumer grade electronics. The ones I've played with might be a wireless camera, but they have receivers that need to connected to the recording device. I don't recall any that had the receivers IN the recording device. It's a pain in the butt to run cables everywhere, and the temptation is to have the little receivers close to the recorder, but for clear signal, I would suggest the receivers as close to the cameras as possible. So if the camera is mounted outside the bedroom window, the receiver is inside the bedroom window. And then you run video cable from there to where ever the recorder is.

That said, something like this might be what you are thinking of: [link]

not sure if those are battery powered cameras or not, but it gets you on the path to what you are thinking about.

Thank you, omnis, for the advice and the rec. This is a good start.

What does it mean when my regular wireless system says its connected but it doesn't have internet access? (I had to connect through a different available system.)

How could I not have access? It was working Sunday night but not last night or this morning.

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I can't believe that no one is talking about the iPhone being on Verizon! Or did we completely talk it out during the many times that the rumors surfaced?

Is it on Verizon NOW????

Available February 10.

More info: Verizon's iPhone is going to annihilate every phone in the U.S.

eta: The Verizon iPhone has a built-in mobile hotspot and redesigned antenna.

Okay, went to Verizon's website and don't see it listed.