From: "R. G. Newbury" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:49:17 -0500
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Wireless IP-Cam
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This is a little obscure so I ddoubt you understand.
Get yourself a domain name...the cost is now very low and if you want, 
you can have you e-mail hosted under that name too.

You sign up with DYNDNS for the startling sum of about $25 per year.
DYNDNS then 'hosts' your domain name. so the external world's DNS 
servers resolve *your* domain name towards DYNDNS.

Dowenstreamm of DYNDNS, you run a small client program... which is built 
into a lot of routers, for example the Linksys WRT54G (with wireless) 
which I have here. That client program reports the IP address served to 
you by your DSL/cable high speed provider, to DYNDNS, which reports that 
address to the world.

Think of it like telephone forwardign: You set your main phone to 
forward your calls to whichever phone you are at. When you change phone 
numbers, you re-set the number to forward to.

How does this fit with your needs? You put a router at your parents 
house and hang the web camera off that. You browse to 
camera1.mydomain.com and sign in...
You can have multiple cameraa on the same or different routers.
You don't care if the IP changes as the name always resolves.

You need nothing beyond a router with the proper built in client program 
and the camera.. and of course a browser for access.

Way cool and actually easy to set up. I had a IP web cam set up here for 
a while, intending greater schemes but I cannot get a round tuit to start.

Geoff


Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE wrote:
> clients are also built-in to a lot of routers as well so you don't need 
> anything on the PC at all.
> 
> Leon
> 
> Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
>> Jeff, please see your private mail for details (later tonight). 
>> Meanwhile, sign up with DynDNS (http://www.dyndns.com) for Dynamic DNS 
>> service. This will allow you to access the unit via a symbolic name, 
>> with a client running on the "network" (within the router or on a 
>> workstation - clients are available for a slew of platforms, including 
>> Win32, OS/2, *nix, Mac) to send updates to the DynDNS server when the 
>> address changes.
>>
>> Bear with me. I have to go Trick or Treating with the kids tonight, 
>> but I'll get back to you on this!!
>>
>> On 10/31/06 04:34 pm, Jeffrey Race thus wrote :
>>> Help please.   I have bought a DCS-6620-G IP camera which in principle
>>> will allow me to watch over my elderly parents from afar (including 
>>> 2-way
>>> audio and remote control of zoom pan and tilt).   However I read a 
>>> warning
>>> in a review that my ISP will keep switching my IP address so even though
>>> I can initially access it from offsite, soon I will lose that ability.
>>>
>>> I recall reading about some service(s) which somehow can advise you
>>> of an IP address change or even update a domain name database somehow.
>>>
>>> Could some kind soul confirm my recollection and briefly tell me how
>>> it works?  Even point me to a tutorial?   I'm hoping to set this up 
>>> later
>>> tonight.
>>>
>>> I have a Toshiba  PCX2500 cable modem from RCN and a Speedstream
>>> 2614 router.   I am planning to put a Belkin F5D6231-4 wireless router
>>> behind that (or replace the Speedstream with the Belkin as it has a
>>> bunch of Ethernet ports too I now see).
>>>
>>> Tell me all the gotchas too.
>>>
>>> Help pls!
>>>
>>> Jeffrey Race
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