Q-See Security Cameras by q-see.com do not work: problems with Internet Explorer 9

After you have already wasted your money purchasing what looks like a good security system, the 8 camera QT426 Q-See Security System, you quickly realize that it is impossible to access remotely.
So, you will struggle to install it in your home. That will take about $600 to install the cameras and a lot of reading and work to get them to work on your DVR that they supply. You'll have to purchase a TV to view the camera images and then spend weeks through trial-and-error learning how the system works because the instruction booklets are worthless. They are written by geeks with no sense of how normal people live, act and operate.
Then, you will spend weeks trying every possible configuration to access your new system that you spent a fortune trying to install, only to discover that the Q-See Security Camera System doesn't work with Internet Explorer 9. And, when you call Q-See to ask, they will tell you that you have to hire a professional installer to help you. When you call the professional installer to help you, they will offer to do the work for a mere $2,500.
You will also download a software program that will cost another $30 to $100 to "Port Forward," which allows, supposedly, outside access to your computer system so you can view the cameras remotely. (It doesn't work folks. Q-See did all this as a joke on you.)
If you already purchased the system, you are out of luck. Although Comcast has announced plans to offer their own security system for the home that works with the Internet. You can disconnect and through out the DVR and then purchase their security camera DVR. Then you will have to clip all of the wires and then install new connectors that fit. That's tricky in and of itself.
In then end, you will go out and purchase a new security camera system from another manufacturer because Q-See Cameras do not work.
You will spend a lot of money, wasting a lot of money, to discover that on your own if you are foolish enough to have wasted your time trying to figure this garbage Q-See Camera system out.
Although you can always write off the lost money, realizing that Q-See has the worst possible technical support ever will only make you that much more angrier.
--- Ray Hanania www.hanania.com