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C2 · Guest

Well, I'm still out of luck on the network camera set-up. Geek Squad
has thrown their hands up in the air. Cox changed my static IP address
to a new one. I purchased a new camera to replace the non-working
DLink. This is what I currently have:

Static (new) IP from Cox Cable
Panasonic BL-C10A network camera
Veo Observer network camera
Linksys EtherFast Cable/DSL 4 port router

I've read through the suggestions from before including the links, tried
everything. What seems so simple is not proving to be. Setting up the
router with the Static IP, port forwarding to the cameras, trying
different port numbers (although Cox says they don't block port 80 on
static IPs), tried three different routers (Lynksys, NetGear, DLink),
turned everything off for an hour for a complete clear...nada.

I'd like to say I've tried everything, but there must be something that
hasn't been tried. Or am I just wrong and this set-up just won't work -
IP to cable modem to router to cameras?

When one of the cameras worked ONCE using plain old dynamic IP, it was
great! Right now, I've used the Panasonic provided service
viewnetcam.com, but this seems to considerably slow things down and
impact quality as well. Last thing Geek Squad mentioned was using a
switcher instead of a router. Novice here didn't quite understand why
that might work.

I'm desperate to make work what all these camera vendors say should
work. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

Si Ballenger · Guest

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:50:00 -0500, C2 <C2@nomail.com> wrote:

C2 · Guest

[quote]On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:50:00 -0500, C2 <C2@nomail.com> wrote:

Well, I'm still out of luck on the network camera set-up. Geek Squad
has thrown their hands up in the air. Cox changed my static IP address
to a new one. I purchased a new camera to replace the non-working
DLink. This is what I currently have:

Static (new) IP from Cox Cable
Panasonic BL-C10A network camera
Veo Observer network camera
Linksys EtherFast Cable/DSL 4 port router

I've read through the suggestions from before including the links, tried
everything. What seems so simple is not proving to be. Setting up the
router with the Static IP, port forwarding to the cameras, trying
different port numbers (although Cox says they don't block port 80 on
static IPs), tried three different routers (Lynksys, NetGear, DLink),
turned everything off for an hour for a complete clear...nada.

I'd like to say I've tried everything, but there must be something that
hasn't been tried. Or am I just wrong and this set-up just won't work -
IP to cable modem to router to cameras?

When one of the cameras worked ONCE using plain old dynamic IP, it was
great! Right now, I've used the Panasonic provided service
viewnetcam.com, but this seems to considerably slow things down and
impact quality as well. Last thing Geek Squad mentioned was using a
switcher instead of a router. Novice here didn't quite understand why
that might work.

I'm desperate to make work what all these camera vendors say should
work. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

First try getting the cams to work at your home to verify they
will work and to practice the setup. You say you assigned the
static ip address in the router. You shouldn't need to do this.
Set the router to get the ip address from the isp just like it is
a dynamic one (the only difference is the ip address will always
be the same). You may be manually entering something incorrectly.
Try connecting a computer/laptop to the router to see if it and
the cam are working. Try to get back to the same setup that you
had working in the past, then work from there.
[/quote]
I did check the cameras at home on a local setup, not viewable from the
net. They work. The only set up that worked in the past was DHCP and
it only lasted 12 hours before the IP changed and I lost connectivity.
That was why I started with (and still have) a static. Again, I'm just
going by the documentation that indicates a need for static IP and then
how to set it up, which always says to put the static IP address in the
router and then to do port forwarding.
Another thing I don't understand (I don't understand much :() is why the
router goes and gets a dynamic IP (70.xxx.etc) and doesn't grab my
static IP (68.xxx etc.) when I tell it to get the IP.
Thanks for the input.

bumtracks · Guest

C2 · Guest

How important is the PC configuration in what I'm trying to do? I was
reading some information on portfowarding.com and I'm beginning to think
my laptop might come into play as to why this network camera isn't
accessible from the internet. I've done all the things everyone has
suggested (as noted previously) without success. Of course, I connect
my Windows XP laptop to do all the setup, but then it's out of the
picture (the whole point of a network camera :)). Is it possible that I
need to be doing something specific to the laptop network set-up that is
causing my problems?

Thanks.

C2 wrote:

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