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    Copyright © 200 6 Lorex Technology Inc. ww.lorexcctv.com Co n su m e r Gu i de THE BASICS OF REMOTE VIDEO ACCESS English Versi on1.0[...]

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    Table of Contents Introductio n............................................................................................................................................................. 2 Background to th e Technology ............................................................................................................................... 3[...]

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    Background to the Technolog y Types of Surveil lance Sy stems In discussing vi deo surve illance s ystems there are t hree type s to consi der; – Direct Surve illance – Local Netw ork Surveil lance – Remote Network Surveil lance Direct Surve illance S ystems disp lay the vid eo images on a monitor or PC-syst em screen without using a dat a ne[...]

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    Figure 2: Local Network Surveillance In the figure 2 above, the video is displa yed on a computer, PC(a), that is conn ected to the Loc al Area Ne twork. In the follo wing f igure 3, the v ideo is be ing monitored b y a computer PC(b) that is at tached to the Internet a t some remote loc ation. Hence all conne ctions from the remote computer needs [...]

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    Figure 3: Remote Network Surveillance When you are vie wing the vid eo sig nals across the Inter net, you need to consider; How do I co nfigure my gatew ay/router? This question dep ends on th e particular model of router y ou have. Nearly a ll models support some form of inbou nd TCP/IP routing , or port forwardin g, and the re are many resources [...]

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    rent them in blocks. If, like most broadband Interne t users, you have a service pro vider who assigns y ou a temporary IP Address and changes it from time to time, then you will ne ed to sign u p for a Dynami c DNS service. What is the differe nce betw een a Static a nd Dynamic IP Address es? IP Addresses are th e numbers used by the I nternet Pro[...]

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    What is port forward i ng? Internet Prot ocols use IP Ad d resses to ide ntify dev ices on the Internet, and por ts to identif y specific serv ices within the devices. When a ne twork gatewa y maps the messages coming from the Intern et to indi vidua l interna l IP Addresses(i.e. devices) on th e LAN it d oes so on a per port basis. This is known a[...]

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    Once this is up an d working yo u should then configure th e gatew ay/router for remote netwo rk access and finally sign up for DDNS ser vice and then set up t he video device to work with the service. What does setting up a gate way/router involve? Since there is a wid e varie ty of gatewa y/ro uters ava ilable, you may hav e one tha t is not expl[...]

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    from the pre vious one . Gateway A gatew ay is a d evice tha t connects 2 different netwo rks together. The g atewa y will perform any address and protocol tran slations requi red so that messages can flow bet ween the net works. IP Add ress Computing devic es conne cted to the Int e rnet, are identified by a unique n etwork number. This number is [...]

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