[Ghost of SVR4]

I put one in my main home (for reasons un-disclosed). If you have Internet service at your cabin/property, get a system with at least four camera’s. Mine are indoor/outdoor with IR. I also opted for the system with two 1TB disks (mirrored for redundancy) and a medium resolution setting. This enables almost a month of capture before historical video starts to get deleted. My unit plugs into my router and all I had to do is open a couple ports on the router and the viewing applications were easy to install on windows and mac and already existed in the google playstore and apple app store.
My investment was $400.00 doing the installation myself. The camera’s have 65 foot cables that came with them.
It has already paid off for me as my home was vandalized and I captured ALL of it from multiple angles.
I picked my unit up from http://www.supercircuits.com/ and it arrived four days after I ordered.

Hope this helps

[Ghost of SVR4]

I should note, I opted for very “visible” cameras. I want people to know they are being recorded but there are some very cool concealed camera’s that can be had for not too much more money.

[Faith65]

My game cameras paid off. Best investment made in a long time. Returned to my property over the summer to see there was more vandalism. Pulled the game cards to see pics of the perps, what they did, vehicle and license plate. Gave it to the cops, they were charged and the case was disposed of this fall.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Your system sounds like a "Swann Security System". They make good equipment and the price is reasonable. They sell bundled systems and bits and pieces. I've got a 16 camera setup which had 1/2 T-byte drive as purchased but was expandable to two 2 T-byte drives which I did myself. I've thought about remote cameras but the need for 12 VDC at the camera has always been a deal killer for me.

Regards,
GtG