FI8608W Quick Installation Guide
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Or Use Google to check out what is port forwarding.
How to do port forwarding within the router
Example: The camera’s LAN IP address is http://192.168.1.35:88 ,
Firstly,
login the router, goes to the menu of
Port Forwarding or Port Trigger
(or named
Virtue
Server
on some brands of router).
Take Linksys brand router as an example, Login the router,
and goes to Applications & Gaming->Single Port Forwarding.
Secondly,
Create a new column by LAN IP address & HTTP Port No. of the camera within the router
showed as below.
Figure3.3 Port forwarding
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Step 4, Use domain name to access the camera via internet
After the port forwarding is finished, you can use
the domain name+ http no.
to access the camera
via internet. Take hostname
ycxgwp.no-ip.info
for example, the accessing link of the camera via
internet would be
http://
ycxgwp.no-ip.info:88
How to test if the accessing link is working
1) Just enter http://
Domain name + HTTP Port
on the IE bar, to see if the camera is accessible.
2) Send the link http://
Domain name + HTTP Port
to your friend to have a test, to check if the
camera is accessible