Foscam FI8918W Quick Installation Manual

Foscam FI8918W Quick Installation Manual

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IP Wireless / Wired Camera

Quick Installation Guide

(For Windows OS)
Model:FI8918W
Model:FI8918W
Colour:Black
Colour:White
ShenZhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd

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  • Page 1: Quick Installation Guide

    IP Wireless / Wired Camera Quick Installation Guide (For Windows OS) Model:FI8918W Model:FI8918W Colour:Black Colour:White ShenZhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd...
  • Page 2: Packing List

    FI8918W Quick Installation Guide Quick Installation Guide Packing List 1) IP CAMERA X 1 2) Wi-Fi Antenna (only available for wireless model) 3) DC Power Supply X 1 4) Network Cable X 1 5) Mounting bracket ×1 6) CD X 1 (Include user manual、IP camera tool)
  • Page 3 FI8918W Quick Installation Guide Figure 1.0 Connect the Antenna. Screw the antenna to the back of the camera, make sure it attached well. Figure 1.1 Plug the network cable and power. Use network cable connects with the camera and your router. Plug in the power.
  • Page 4: Software Installation

    FI8918W Quick Installation Guide Figure 1.2 2 Software Installation Put the small CD in your CD driver of your computer and find the folder “For Windows”, open it and choose IP Camera Tool. Double click IPCamSetup.exe and install the software as instruction.
  • Page 5 FI8918W Quick Installation Guide Figure 1.4 Figure 1.5 You can find the icon on the desktop after you install the IP camera tool. 3 Login the camera Dbclick the IP Camera Tool and you could see the following picture. Figure 1.6 The IP camera tool could find the cam’s IP automatically after you plug the...
  • Page 6 FI8918W Quick Installation Guide Figure 1.7 Note: If you use IE browser, please choose the first login mode (ActiveX Mode) to login. If you use other browsers, such as Firefox, safari or Google chrome, Please choose the second login mode (Server Push Mode) to login.
  • Page 7: Wireless Lan Settings

    FI8918W Quick Installation Guide Figure 1.8 If you could not see living video, Please make sure allow the activeX running when it prompts you. (details: see user manual) If you only see a black screen with a red cross in the center, Please change a port number to try, do not use port 80.
  • Page 8 FI8918W Quick Installation Guide Figure 2.0 Figure 2.1 Figure 2.2 www.foscam.com - 7 -...
  • Page 9: Ddns Service Settings

    FI8918W Quick Installation Guide Please click Submit after finish these settings, the camera will reboot. Plug out the network cable after you click submit about 10 seconds. The camera will work on WIFI after reboot. Note: If your camera could not connect WIFI, please see FAQ in user manual.
  • Page 10 FI8918W Quick Installation Guide example, the address is 183.37.28.254. Access the IP Camera from the Internet You can access the IP Camera from the Internet. (remote access) Enter WAN IP address and port number in IE browser or other browsers you use. For example, Http:// 183.37.28.254:85...
  • Page 11 FI8918W Quick Installation Guide Here fill in a name and choose dyndns.org Your current internet IP Figure 2.5 Then choose Add To Cart. Click here after you finish the settings above Figure 2.6 Set the following information as the picture below.
  • Page 12 FI8918W Quick Installation Guide Fill in user name,password and email address Click here to create account Figure 2.7 The website will send you an email to your mailbox just set. Figure 2.8 Please click the link in your email to activate your account.
  • Page 13 FI8918W Quick Installation Guide Figure 2.9 You will see the following picture. Click Activate services>> Click here to activate services Figure 3.0 All the settings are finished until you see the following picture. (Figure 3.1) You can see your host name in the list.
  • Page 14 FI8918W Quick Installation Guide Figure 3.2 Here make sure that your camera is in the same subnet as your router. In other words, keep the first three sections the same with your router or your computer. Gateway is your router’s LAN IP. You can find DNS server in your router, if you don’t know the DNS server;...
  • Page 15 FI8918W Quick Installation Guide Make sure DDNS succeed Figure 3.4 (4) How to do port forwarding. Login your router; find the right place to do port forwarding. Here use a Linksys router for example. You can do single port forwarding. Set as the following picture.
  • Page 16 FI8918W Quick Installation Guide Figure 3.6 Please do not forget to save these settings when you finish them. (5) After finish all these settings above, you can use DDNS domain name and port number to login your camera at any place.
  • Page 17 FI8918W Quick Installation Guide ShenZhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd www.foscam.com - 16 -...

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