Let me start by saying, I'm a level 2 IT engineer.
If you like to sleep at night, or get stuff accomplished while your baby is napping, then DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS!!!
You will constantly have login/buffering issues. The camera will randomly lose connection through out the night, then won't reconnect. Want to try to connect from a different device, HA! That's not going to happen (refer back to login/buffering issues).
Want to take it on vacation with you? Sure, you can do that, just plan on doing a factory reset when you get there, because it will not connect to a new WiFi address without doing that. Then plan on doing another factory reset when you come back home. Oh, and plan on just doing factory resets frequently, because of all the issues it has. Also plan on going to you phone/tablet settings and clearing the cache, only to find that that doesn't help, so now you need to uninstall, reboot phone/tablet, and reinstall app. Guess what?! That only works about 30% of the time.
It's got to be my internet! Nope, I have AT&T fiber, with an avg of 900 Mbps up and down. It's definitely got to be my router then! Nope, I've got an Asus AC3100 RT-AC88U, and have QoS enabled, with the Arlo as the highest priority. Then what is it?! It's Netgear!
Lastly, Google: "Arlo baby no sound iOS", and look for all of the complaints when Netgear decided to push out the iOS app update (that's your iPhone and iPad app) that broke the sound. They refused to rollback the app, and it was a full week before a fix was rolled out. That's some great testing by Netgear! Also, try sleeping during that time!
So, like I said, if you like to sleep, or get things accomplished while your little one is napping, then this camera is not for you.
Pros:
- Great picture (when it works)
- Decent sound (when it works)
Cons:
- See my entire post.