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    Foscam FI8918W Wireless IP Surveillance Camera Quick Installation & User Manual http://www.chargerbuy.com[...]

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    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 e X 1 5) Mounting br acket ×1 6) CD X 1 (Include user manual 、 IP camera tool) 7) Quick Inst allation Guide X 1 Q u i c k I n s t a l l a t i o n G[...]

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    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 . Plug in th e power . The network light will blink and the camer a will pan/tilt . Power light wi[...]

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    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. 3 Login the camera Dbclick the IP Camera T ool and y ou could se e the f[...]

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    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. - 4 - http://www.chargerbuy.com[...]

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    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. It could also find your router and show it in t [...]

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    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. Figure 1.9 (2) Click the SSID of your ro uter in the list, the correspo nding informati on (SSID & Encryption) w ill be fi[...]

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    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. - 7 - http://www.chargerbuy.com[...]

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    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 5.1 St atic IP user Static IP users ne ed not set DDNS se rvice settings for remote acces s. When f[...]

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    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”. 2) Do port forw [...]

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    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[...]

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    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. - 1 1 - http://www.chargerbuy.com[...]

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    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. Figure 3.0 Y ou will see the follow ing picture. Cli ck Activate serv ices>> - 12 - ht[...]

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    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. Figure 3.2 (2) Basic Network S ettings - 13 - http://w[...]

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    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 . In other words, keep the first three sections the sam e with your ro uter or your co mp[...]

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    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 3.6) Figure 3.6 Y ou can also choose port range forw arding. In order to forw ard the port s [...]

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    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.dyndns.org: 8100 to login t he camera. Here f oscamipcamera.[...]

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    Quick Installation Guide FI8918W - 17 - Conclusion Other det ail settings, please consult user manual. http://www.chargerbuy.com[...]