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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