Swann SW243-9MB DVR9-Net-4000 – 9 Channel Digital Video Recorder

July 3rd, 2010 Admin


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9 Channel Digital Video Recorder with CD-R/RW Drive – Enhanced MPEG4 video quality & compression wth easy CD back-up!… More >>
$469.00
Swann SW243-9MB DVR9-Net-4000 – 9 Channel Digital Video Recorder

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6 Responses to “Swann SW243-9MB DVR9-Net-4000 – 9 Channel Digital Video Recorder”

  1. William Stackhouse says:
    July 3, 2010 at 6:54 am

    This item is currently with Swann, for repair or replacement, since 3/16/10, I am not sure yet.

    The video is weak, we had 3 monitors hooked to it and the screens were hard to see. I never thought about it, till I replaced this one with another brand and the video is bright as a television, easy to see.

    We chose this item because you could hook 9 cameras too it, the large hard drive, & internet access.

    We recorded everything, but never needed to review it. so basically we were monitoring. Our warehouse has no windows to see when someone drives up.

    The item locked up mid January, but went un-noticed till mid February, since video still worked, just no recording. What got our attention, was the video started getting wavy and upon further review found the unit was locked up. Upon trying to reset the unit, power down, unplug, it just completely failed, to the point it would not even post. I would not buy this unit again.
    Rating: 2 / 5

  2. E. Aragones says:
    July 3, 2010 at 9:52 am

    I bought the Swann DVR Securanet 9-Channel with 250mb hard drive last May 2008 and it has most of the features I need including 9-camera hookup, 24/7 recording, seleted or all camera viewing, remote access, etc). It serves the purpose for home security and monitoring while at home or remotely and was happy with it until now.

    Recently this Swann DVR started to malfunction and deteriorate. Some of the issues include 1) failing to boot up 2) system hangs up (goes into record mode directly) 3) front panel buttons and remote do not function when system hangs up 4) software fails to run and gets a grey screen (no video)

    Customer service is poor as I’ve sent an email to Tech Support in Australia (Asia) and still no response. Now, I don’t have any DVR to record and monitor the house, and I hope Swann can provide an immediate resolution.

    The brand of DVR I was looking into prior to buying the Swann product was Q-See which has similar features, but lower-end brand.

    I may have to figure out if I should ‘reformat’ the hard drive and re-install the software/firmware to make it work.

    Rating: 2 / 5

  3. D. RIBARRO says:
    July 3, 2010 at 12:22 pm

    I have owned other Swann dvr’s with no problem what so ever. This on the other hand has been a problem since the beginning. First usb backup did not work. Then it crashes randomly and has to be rebooted. It now is up to crashing once a day and has to be rebooted. Which in case you have not figured out by now means I have no video surveillance until I notice it is not working and reboot it. Network feature is COMPLETELY USELESS. The instruction tell you to go elsewhere to figure out how to use it. Customer support is worthless, slow and embarrassing. I too am looking for a new dvr manufacturer.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  4. Brilan Wells says:
    July 3, 2010 at 1:22 pm

    I have had this DVR for 9 months. I have had to make 15 calls to customer service for this DVR to try to set up remote access from another computer when not at home. First, when you call Swann expect at minimum, a 20 minute hold time. On average 35 minutes and up to an hour and 10 minutes. (Often you will call and simply get disconnected from the call after punching “push 1 for tech support” —- sudden disconnect – no message, nothing)

    Each time I have called, depending on who I talk to, I’m given a different thing to “try”. Often 1 Rep will reverse what the previous one told you to do. They are polite and friendly when you call (with 1 very notable exception – Kelvin), but nobody really seems to know how to fix a problem.

    I have taken 6 trips in the past 9 months and before each trip I have tried to get the thing to work right by calling Swann. In the course of getting help over the phone, one step is to reboot the system – and this is the trick (it took me 9 months to figure this out on my own, surprise, surprise nobody at Swann told me about it) and that is what fixes it – not all the different things thy tell me to try… but rebooting it only fixes the problem for 2-48 hours. So… when I leave on my trip… check it the next day… I cannot get remote access. Of course, I could fix the problem… if I was home to reboot the DVR. (The problem is not my dynamic IP address updating – I’ve checked before and after I’ve left to see the IP address unchanged)

    Let me give you of an example of a day dealing with Swann Tech Support – this was yesterday.

    Call number #1 (40 minute wait)I got Kelvin on the phone – this is the one notable exception. He is extremely rude and condescending. Don’t ask any questions because he will let you know how stupid you are and how smart he is. I explained to him that I finally figured out, not what the problem was, but what fixes it – rebooting the system. His “try” was a NEW, JUST RELEASED firmware update that would fix all my problems! I’ve heard similar 14 times before.

    I said I’d try it though. He emailed me the firmware update – (for the wrong model DVR I found out after I opened the email). At the end of the call I asked for the number for management because I did want to say something about the long wait times. I know that never makes a difference, but I wanted to try anyway. He told me to tell him. I told him I wanted to speak to someone in management, not tech support about the long wait times. He told me he was a supervisor (turns out he’s not), finally he gave me a number in the US.

    Call #2 – I called Customer Service in the US and explained my situation regarding my problems not being able to ever get this thing working right to the woman who answers the phones, all the managers were on the busy – they were suppose to call back – That was yesterday, no calls back. She also left a message with Hugh, the real supervisor at Tech support in Australia, she said he would call back at 4:30pm yesterday… he never did.

    Call #3 Back to tech support. (40 minute wait) I got Christan on the phone. I very polite nice guy, I explained my situation to him and he read in his notes that Kelvin suggested the firmware, so he said, “let’s try the firmware update”, he directed me to the correct firmware update at the Swann website and after 30 minutes we reached a step he was unsure about, he said Hugh knew the system better than he and I’d get a call back within the hour. That was 22 hours ago.

    During my wait, I decided that I did not want to “try” the firmware “update”. Since nobody told me “ahhh, I know what’s wrong, this is your problem and this firmware fixes your issue” I realized this was just the latest thing to “try”. I figured at least the DVR records now, it records while I’m away. I just can’t check it until I get back.

    I have no confidence at all that if we “tried” to update the firmware, I might have a much bigger problem which would lead me to having to replace the entire unit and have to probably wait a month to get the new one (only to have to call tech support again, more wait times, to set it up again… and my guess is I’d probably have the same problem anyway)

    I just reached a point where I finally had to say to myself, I’m just wasting a tremendous amount of time on this and my confidence that whatever they tell me to try will not work.

    I’m looking into other DVR manufactures now.

    Rating: 1 / 5

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