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Foscam FI8918W Wireless IP Surveillance Camera Quick Installation & User Manual http://www.chargerbuy.com.
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W Quick Inst allation Guide-For MAC users Packing List 1) IP C AMERA X 1 2) Wi-F i Antenna (only available for w ireless model) 3) DC Power S upply X 1 4 ) Network Cabl .
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W Figure 1.0 (2) Connect the Antenna. Screw the ante nna to the back of the camera, mak e it attac hed well. Figure 1.1 (3) Plug the network cab le and power . Use network c able connect s with the camera and your router .
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W 2 S o f t w a r e I n s t a l l a t i o n Please put the small CD in your C D driver of y our laptop and fi nd the folder “F or MAC”, then open the folder “IP Camera T ool”. Copy the IP camer a tool to your MAC and you can use the tool.
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W Figure 1.4 Fill in user name and passw ord and choose the second login. Figure 1.5 The browser w ill prompt you enter the cam era’s user name a nd password. Plea se fill in admin and choose Log in. Y ou can see t he device st atus.
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W Figure 1.6 Click Live V ideo . Y ou can see living video. Figure 1.7 4 Wireless LAN Settings (1) Please choose Device Management and click Wirele ss LAN Setting s . Then choose Using Wireless LAN . Click Scan b utton and the cam era will detect WIFI device ar ound it.
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W Figure 1.8 If the camera co uld not find some WIFI device, please click the sca n button again. Make sure that th e time between the first s can and the seco nd scan is more than 1~2 minute.
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W Make sure that S SID, Encryption and share key are exactly the sam e with your router . Figure 2.1 Figure 2.2 Please click Submit af ter finish the se settings, the c amera will reboo t.
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W Plug out the network cable after you cl ick submit about 10 seco nds. The camera will w ork on WIFI aft er reboot. Note: If your camera c ould not connec t WIFI, please see F AQ in user manual. 5 DDNS Service Settings 5.
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W Note: Make sure the Port mapping is success. You c an do port mapping by two ways . 1) Enter setting page of the rou ter which camera connect with to e nable UPNP function . Then login the camera as administrator, c hoose UPnP Settings to en able UPNP and m ake sure the st ate is “UPnP success”.
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W Figure 2.5 Please set as the follow ing picture. Figure 2.6 Then choose A dd T o Cart . - 10 - http://www.chargerbuy.com.
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W Figure 2.7 Set the follow ing information as t he picture bel ow . Figure 2.8 The website w ill send you an email to your mai lbox just set.
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W Figure 2.9 Please click the link in your email to activ ate your account. Or copy th e link and p aste it to the brow ser to activate the a ccount . Make sure that your account w as activated or DDNS settings will be failed.
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W Figure 3.1 All the settin gs are finished until you see the f ollowing pict ure. (Figure 3.2) Y ou can see your hos t name in the li st. Please remembe r the host name, user name and p assword; they are nee ded when you set DDNS serv ice settings of your camera.
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W We need set a static IP for the camera when do DDNS service se ttings. Login your camera and se t basic network setting s as the picture below . Figure 3.3 Here make su re that your c amera is in the same subnet as y our router .
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W Figure 3.5 (4) How to do port forwarding. Login your ro uter; find the right place to do port forward ing. Here use a L inksys router for example. Y ou can do single port forwarding . Set as the follow ing picture. (F igure 3.
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W Figure 3.7 Please do not forget to sav e these settings when you f inish them. (5) After fini sh all these set tings above, y ou can use DDNS domain name and port numbe r to login your camera at any pla ce. For example, u se strings htt p://foscamipcamer a.
Quick Installation Guide FI8918W - 17 - Conclusion Other det ail settings, please consult user manual. http://www.chargerbuy.com.
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