We used a Qsee like this one at a cabin we had in the hills and it worked fine. (mine was 600 lines for this same price) Not top of the line, but sufficient for our needs. In addition to security, we used it to watch the weather and to keep an eye out for the critters that frequented the area. Our place was above the snowline on the edge of a National Forest.
Assuming you have even a little understanding of the Internet and you can read, Qsee's dynamic DNS tools for remote viewing are pretty simple to use and fairly straight forward to set up. If you live out in the sticks or other area where power failures or brown outs happen with any kind of regularity, consider a UPS device to clean up any dirty electricity and to keep the system up in the event of an all-out failure. I kept the DVR and DSL router modem/router plugged into a 2000va APC and could connect remotely even if the power was out, which was usually during heavy storms.
If you have a long cable run that has to be outside the house and you have any rodents in the area (including squirrels), consider putting your cables in conduit. Because of the roof pitch on one side of my place, one camera had a 25' exterior cable-run that I tucked up under the rafter tails where they met the outside wall. Squirrels chewed through the exposed section of cabling, the little bastards.
Q-See's IR isn't the greatest, but I added two 300w motion activated floods to the darkest, most secluded places where an asshat would likely try to gain entry.
Assuming you have even a little understanding of the Internet and you can read, Qsee's dynamic DNS tools for remote viewing are pretty simple to use and fairly straight forward to set up. If you live out in the sticks or other area where power failures or brown outs happen with any kind of regularity, consider a UPS device to clean up any dirty electricity and to keep the system up in the event of an all-out failure. I kept the DVR and DSL router modem/router plugged into a 2000va APC and could connect remotely even if the power was out, which was usually during heavy storms.
If you have a long cable run that has to be outside the house and you have any rodents in the area (including squirrels), consider putting your cables in conduit. Because of the roof pitch on one side of my place, one camera had a 25' exterior cable-run that I tucked up under the rafter tails where they met the outside wall. Squirrels chewed through the exposed section of cabling, the little bastards.
Q-See's IR isn't the greatest, but I added two 300w motion activated floods to the darkest, most secluded places where an asshat would likely try to gain entry.