From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Message-ID: <454848E4.5080909@bigpond.net.au>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:12:36 +1100
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Wireless IP-Cam
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One such service is  http://www.dyndns.org  however the wireless router 
or whatever you use to connect the camera to a broadband internet link 
(I presume you are accessing the camera via the Internet ?) must have a 
built in client to update the DYNDNS database when the IP address 
changes. Some routers have this, some don't.

Cheers/2

Ed.


Jeffrey Race 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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