User`s manual

Fig. 13: Enter static IP Address for you security DVR.
After you have finished configuring port-forwarding, you are ready to access the DVR remotely through the
internet. To do that in the web browser, type your external IP address and the port #, with a colon between the
two, such as this:
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:port#
Enter your login information and you will be able to access the video streams from your security camera(s). I had
experience in which the router failed to forward the port right away after the setup, so if it doesn’t work, wait a
little bit and try again.
Step 4: Setting up DDNS
There is still one more thing that might or might not affect you. Most ISPs issue external ip addresses that are
dynamic, meaning that the ip address could change over time. This is a problem because in order to access the
security DVR remotely, you need to know the external IP address of the network where it is installed. It would be
troublesome if it kept changing. Luckily there are free services that will keep track of the changes for you.
Basically this is what you need to do:
1. Sign up a free account with one of the service such as dyndns.com.
2. Pick a host name while signing up.
3. Setup the DDNS feature on the device/application that will communicate with their server (in our case,
the router).
The “network setup manual” that comes with the AVC series DVRs has a section that covers the steps to sign up
a DDNS account with www.dyndns.com, I will present that section here (Pg. 2-7):
1. Go to http://www.dyndns.com and sign up a DDNS account.