Hey Q. Genuine thanks for the response.
I have no doubt that fender has experience here, and I stated right up front that I'm a noob to the ipcam scene. It doesn't seem like it should be necessary to point out that I studied networking and electronics in college, or that I literally have decades of experience in consumer camera sales/professional photography and even some photojournalism thrown in for good measure. For all the difference it makes, I guess I know a few things about volts and lenses.
I have to respectfully disagree with something you said, though: Sricam is largely absent from the conversation on these pages. It's not hard to see why -- ask for some of the finer points on that topic and ya get shut down. He likes dahua? Fine with me. Ask for the difference? Whoa! Better not go there! I see people on YouTube saying, "Gee, this cheap camera gave me better results than I expected..." I'm having fun with it, and I've said repeatedly that over time i might find that it's a bad purchase. I'm totally open to that. At this point I've become apathetic to certain conversational input and even the fact that discussions of even cheaper equipment -- loaded with factory bugs -- are met with high-fives and smiles here.
But if you want to get up to speed on a product you've got two choices: ask the guys who claim to know or try it yourself. Looks like I'm headed up road #2 here. That's fine too. So far things are going pretty well.
Anyhow, thanks again. Have a fine day.