[NTLUG:Discuss] IP-camera ~little off topic

[Andy Brown]

TWC will require you to be on a Business plan to get a static IP address.
However there is a simple way around this and thats is to use a Dynamic IP
address. When i had one setup I was using no-ip.com and had my DNS seutp to
delusions.no-ip.com. The nice thing is there is a cron job that will run in
the background checking to see if your IP address has change.

This would be the solution I would reccomend.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:23 PM, David Simmons <dave at dgnal.net> wrote:

>
>
> > I have an IP-video camera running on a home network (w/ Linux and
> XP).
> >
> > Time Warner Cable says I need to upgrade to
> their business service
> > (to get a static IP address) in order to
> access the video camera remotely.
> > Currently I have their
> residential service.
> >
> > Is this correct?  there is no
> way to remotely access anything on a TWC
> > home network with
> residential service.
>
> Yes and No.....a static IP address makes
> the setup pretty easy...but it's not the only way to go.  Check
> out:
>
> http://www.dyndns.com/about/
>
> What happens is
> that you create a name...something like, say:
> http://myipvideo.dyndns.com
>
> then you run a client program on
> your home machine.....it sends your (variable) ip address to dyndns every
> so often such that if it changes (as a non-static IP address does) then
> dyndns will get updated with your new one....but the name will always stay
> static at:  http://myipvideo.dyndns.com
>
> Hope that
> helps.....dyndns.com is just one company that does this....there are
> other's if you don't like them (although I'd venture to say they've done
> it the longest / are the biggest).
>
> HTH - dave
>
>
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