User's Manual

Appendix A: Wireless setup instructions without Cat5

We have received inquiry from customers with no available wired network jack to plug the camera into for the

initial configuration. For instance, if an Airport Express is used as the only router for a network, the signal

network jack is taken by the required connection to the cable or DSL modem.

While we don’t recommend this, it is still possible to configure the camera without an initial wired connection

using the following procedure:

1. Temporarily rename your Wi-Fi network name (SSID) to: wirelessnc, and turn off all wireless security,

i.e. no passwords and no MAC filtering. It is important to have the SSID all lower case and without

extra spaces. Then connect to this Wi-Fi network with your laptop.

2. If you are using an Apple airport Express, use the Airport utility as shown on page 6 to reserve a fixed IP

address for your camera using the camera’s MAC address shown on the back of the camera.

3. Power up the camera and wait about 1 minute…the camera should connect to your Wi-Fi and you should be

able to access it using the IP address that you reserved for it. If you have a Wi-Fi router or access point other

than the Airport Express, you can connect to your router and look in the DHCP clients list to see the IP

address of the camera if it hasn’t automatically announced itself with a UPnP popup window.

4. Now go to the camera’s wireless setup menu, but don’t use the “Search” function. Type in the exact SSID

that you had before the change in step 1, and type the exact password that you wish to use. After you hit

“Apply”, you won’t be able to do further changes until the next step.

5. Now set your Wi-Fi SSID back to the exact same spelling as you entered into the camera’s SSID field, and

make sure the password and security mode are also exactly the same. Then update an restart your Wi-Fi

network. You can now proceed with the setup of the camera as you should be able to see it at the same IP

address as in step 3.