Operation Manual

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Step 2: Enter the username and password of the Administrator (default username is
admin with a blank password), and click “OK” to apply changes.
Step 3: Wait around 10 seconds, you’ll see that the camera’s LAN IP address has
changed. In our example it was changed to 2000, so we see http://192.168.1.110:2000
in IP Camera Tool. Also, the LAN IP address is now fixed at a static IP address of
http://192.168.1.110:2000. This IP address will not change even if the camera is
powered off and back on, the camera will remain on this LAN IP address. This is very
important that a static LAN IP address is set, or you may have problems later with
remote access and seeing the camera remotely if the camera loses power and reconnects
on a different LAN IP address. Make sure you set a static LAN IP address!
Figure 4.6
What is Port forwarding?
If you have never done port forwarding before, you can open and view the following link
to understand the basic concept. Port forwarding allows for outside connections to access
a specific device on your network from anywhere in the world. Every router automatically
blocks any incoming connections for safety purposes. Using port forwarding, you are
telling your router to allow a connection through a certain port (you can think of it as a
gateway) into your router. You set this port to a specific device, in our case an IP
Camera, so it can be accessed from anywhere in the world.
Click http://portforward.com/help/portforwarding.htm to learn more about port
forwarding:
How do we configure Port Forwarding?
For this section, we will be using an example:
Let’s say the camera’s LAN IP address is http://192.168.8.100:2000
Step 1: Login to the router, and go to your router’s port forwarding or port triggering
menu. Sometimes this is also under the name of Virtual Server or NAT.
Using the Linksys brand router as an example, we would log into the router, and go to
the Applications & Gaming menu. We would then click on the “Single Port Forwarding”
sub-menu.
Step 2: Create a new column using the LAN IP address & HTTP Port of the camera within
the router as shown below, then push OK or Submit to save your settings: