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IP Wireless / Wired Camera Quick Installation Guide (For Mac OS) Model:FI8908W Model:FI8908W Color: Black Color: White ShenZhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd...
FI8908W Quick Installation Guide Quick Installation Guide-For MAC users 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)
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FI8908W 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.
FI8908W Quick Installation Guide Figure 1.2 2 Software Installation Please put the small CD in your CD driver of your laptop and find the folder “For MAC”, then open the folder “IP Camera Tool”. Copy the IP camera tool to your MAC and you can use the tool.
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FI8908W Quick Installation Guide Figure 1.4 Fill in user name and password and choose the second login. Figure 1.5 The browser will prompt you enter the camera’s user name and password. Please fill in admin and choose Log in. You can see the device status.
FI8908W Quick Installation Guide Figure 1.6 Click Live Video. You can see living video. Figure 1.7 4 Wireless LAN Settings Please choose Device Management and click Wireless LAN Settings. Then choose Using Wireless LAN. Click Scan button and the camera will detect WIFI device around it.
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FI8908W Quick Installation Guide Click scan button to find WIFI device Figure 1.8 If the camera could not find some WIFI device, please click the scan button again. Make sure that the time between the first scan and the second scan is more than 1~2 minute.
FI8908W Quick Installation Guide Figure 2.1 Figure 2.2 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.
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FI8908W Quick Installation Guide can access the camera directly from Internet by the WAN IP and port number. There are two ways to obtain your WAN IP. Obtain the WAN IP from Website Please enter these strings in your browser: http://www.whatismyip.com.The webpage at this address will show you the current WAN IP.
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FI8908W Quick Installation Guide function. Then login the camera as administrator, choose UPnP Settings to enable UPNP and make sure the state is “UPnP success”. Do port forwarding manually. (details: Figure 3.5/3.6) If your router has Virtual server, it is used to do port mapping. Please add the camera’s LAN IP and port which you set in basic network settings to the Virtual map...
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FI8908W 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 www.foscam.com - 10 -...
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FI8908W Quick Installation Guide Set the following information as the picture below. 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.
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FI8908W 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.
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FI8908W Quick Installation Guide Basic Network Settings We need set a static IP for the camera when do DDNS service settings. Login your camera and set basic network settings as the picture below. 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.
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FI8908W Quick Installation Guide Please login in the camera again to check if DDNS settings is succeed. Figure 3.4 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.
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FI8908W Quick Installation Guide Figure 3.6 Please do not forget to save these settings when you finish them. After finish all these settings above, you can use DDNS domain name and port number to login your camera at any place.
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