FI8906W Quick Installation Guide
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5.2 How to configure Remote Access Settings (For dynamic IP user)
DDNS is a service that allows your Network Camera, especially when assigned with a dynamic IP
address, to have a fixed host and domain name, you can access the camera directly from the
Internet by the domain name and port number.
①
Make Port Forwarding of the HTTP Port of the camera
What is port forwarding?
If you have no concept of Port Forwarding, please open the webpage
http://portforward.com/help/portforwarding.htm to learn some knowledge of Port Forwarding.
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.
Figure2.4 Port forwarding
②
Use domain name to access the camera via internet
Each FOSCAM camera has embedded a unique DDNS domain name when producing, and the
format of domain name is xxxxxx.myfoscam.org. On the bottom of the camera body, you can see the
domain name sticker.