Anybody know how I'd get wireless security cameras on the net?

I put 2 Linksys cameras in my home.
They wirelessly connect to my router with their own ip address.

I need to know how to see them in a web browser from a remote
location.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Butch

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> I put 2 Linksys cameras in my home.
> They wirelessly connect to my router with their own ip address.
>
> I need to know how to see them in a web browser from a remote
> location.
>
> Any ideas?
>
You need to set up port forwarding on the router, so that e.g. port
10080 is forwarded to port 80 on one camera and port 11080 is forwarded
to port 80 on the other. Then connect by specifying the non-standard
port in the URL e.g. http://111.222.333.444:10080

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> You need to set up port forwarding on the router, so that e.g. port
> 10080 is forwarded to port 80 on one camera and port 11080 is forwarded
> to port 80 on the other. Then connect by specifying the non-standard
> port in the URL e.g.http://111.222.333.444:10080

Great answer!
Unfortunately some of that is beyond my current experience.
Is there a website you could direct me to that could educate me so I
don't waste your time?
Or will a general google search teach me somewhere along the way.

Thanks for your quick response.
Butch

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@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Butch61
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> <snip>
> > You need to set up port forwarding on the router, so that e.g. port
> > 10080 is forwarded to port 80 on one camera and port 11080 is forwarded
> > to port 80 on the other. Then connect by specifying the non-standard
> > port in the URL e.g.http://111.222.333.444:10080
>
> Great answer!
> Unfortunately some of that is beyond my current experience.
> Is there a website you could direct me to that could educate me so I
> don't waste your time?

Not that I'm aware of.

> Or will a general google search teach me somewhere along the way.
>
Probably. :-)


The procedure for setting up port forwarding will be in the router
manual - they might call it something like "virtual servers". Other
than that you just need to manually assign IP addresses to the cameras,
rather than letting DHCP do it randomly. There may be a setting in the
router that automatically assigns a fixed address to each camera when it
makes a DHCP request, based on MAC address, otherwise you'll need to set
the address in the camera itself.
What router is it?

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> The procedure for setting up port forwarding will be in the router
> manual - they might call it something like "virtual servers". Other
> than that you just need to manually assign IP addresses to the cameras,
> rather than letting DHCP do it randomly. There may be a setting in the
> router that automatically assigns a fixed address to each camera when it
> makes a DHCP request, based on MAC address, otherwise you'll need to set
> the address in the camera itself.
> What router is it?

Hey Thanks again Rob.

It's a Linksys.
Not sure what model. Not at home right now.
I did assign separate static ip addresses to each camera.
How do I know what the "non-standard" ip address is?
I think I can figure out/research the port forwarding.
B

In article <725df5ea-4b09-45b0-a605-0e9282549f15
@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Butch61
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> It's a Linksys.
> Not sure what model. Not at home right now.
> I did assign separate static ip addresses to each camera.
> How do I know what the "non-standard" ip address is?
>
Non-standard port, not non-standard address - the cameras are
(presumably) set up to serve on port 80, which is standard for HTTP.
Because you have two cameras and only one external address you can't use
port 80 to connect to both cameras, so you use arbitrary high numbered
ports instead. (Ports 1-1023 are reserved for "well known services"
e.g. HTTP, SMTP etc. while ports 1024-65535 are dynamically assigned to
whatever wants to use them.) Because a browser expects to connect to
port 80, you need to tell it to connect to a different port by adding
the port number to the server address, so to connect to port 10080 you
need to use the format http://my.domain.net:10080 - the router then
knows to forward the connection to camera 1 port 80.

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> so to connect to port 10080 you
> need to use the formathttp://my.domain.net:10080- the router then
> knows to forward the connection to camera 1 port 80.

So are you saying that this needs to be part of a bona-fide website
with it's own domain and url?
That's the way I understand it.
If so, I don't understand how the website, that exists on a server
away from this particular pc, would know how to point to that given
pc.
Did that make sense?

Thanks again.
B

In article <df72f755-f979-44cf-92ec-554b0556c269
@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Butch61
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> <snip>
>
> > so to connect to port 10080 you
> > need to use the formathttp://my.domain.net:10080- the router then
> > knows to forward the connection to camera 1 port 80.
>
> So are you saying that this needs to be part of a bona-fide website
> with it's own domain and url?
> That's the way I understand it.

You need to know the public IP address of the router - if you have a
dynamic address assigned by your ISP you might want to use a service
like http://www.no-ip.com/services/manage...namic_dns.html to
keep track of it and provide a memorable URL. If like mine your ISP
rarely (if ever) changes your IP address then you can connect using the
dotted decimal numeric address - you can find this in your router status
info (in mine it's Config - Interface - Ethernet - WAN - Status - Ip
Address).

> If so, I don't understand how the website, that exists on a server
> away from this particular pc, would know how to point to that given
> pc.
> Did that make sense?
>
If you have a website then you could use it to host a page that links to
the cameras, possibly using a dynamic DNS service as above. Otherwise
you can connect to the cameras just as you do on your LAN - the web
server is the camera itself. The intervening stuff is just to get
around the facts that the cameras have private IP addresses that can't
be accessed from the internet, and you only have one public IP address
available to access both cameras and the router.

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Thanks a whole bunch!
I'll try this out tomorrow!
B

In article <f09b3537-a785-4a1b-945d-
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(E-Mail Removed) says...
> I put 2 Linksys cameras in my home.
> They wirelessly connect to my router with their own ip address.
>
> I need to know how to see them in a web browser from a remote
> location.
>
> Any ideas?

Port-forwarding. Read up on it.
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Regards
Jon