Basic CCTV Networking Tutorial from ApexCCTV.com
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Most of the questions we get on a daily basis over here in ApexCCTV’s production floor deal with the dreadful task of networking. If it’s your first time configuring a network or assigning IP address to the cameras in your NVR system, it can seem like one of the twelve labors of Hercules. I’ve been there. I’ve done it. I’ve thrown my hands up in the air screaming,”Why won’t you work?!” so many times the words lost their meaning.
Don’t spend hours pulling out your hair and cursing the heavens. Don’t call up some networking “specialist” and pay exorbitant hourly fees for them to drag their feet and dance around your questions so they can milk your for all you’re worth. Go to our YouTube channel. We’ve compiled a basic networking course that will help you learn what you need to know to get your network off the ground and running.
Watch our videos, get the knowledge, and you’ll be leaps and bounds further than when you started.
Networking Guide Video Tutorial Series – Part 9: DNS & WINS Setup Best Practices
Our final Networking Guide Video Tutorial covers DNS and WINS best practices when setting up your network. Eric explains and demonstrates the purposes and procedures for setting both services up.
You will find DNS and WINS helpful when setting up personal or client security camera systems. Both services allow for easier access to CCTV cameras without typing in their direct IP addresses – who remembers those anyways?
Part 1 – Basic Networking Information
Part 2 – Finding Your Router’s IP Address, or Default Gateway
Part 3 – Finding Your Router’s Default Username & Password
Part 4 – Finding Your Network’s DHCP Range
Part 5 – Finding Your Router’s Existing Port Forwarding Information
Part 6 – Finding a Static IP Address for Your Network Device
Part 7 – Finding Your Public IP Address and Setting Up Dynamic DNS
Part 8 – Locating Your Static IP Address Information
Part 9 – (You Are Here)
Stay tuned, the next video will be released next week, and don’t forget to let us know if our videos are helpful!
Networking Guide Video Tutorial Series – Part 1: Basic Information
In this multi-part Video Tutorial Series on Networking, we will be covering everything that you will need to know when setting up a network (IP) based security system. Many of the tips and tricks here can be easily utilized when performing other everyday networking tasks, like setting up other network-based gadgets in your home, but we will focus on, and use terminology from, the surveillance industry.
Part 1: Basic Networking Information
You’ve always got to cover your basics… so part one of the series goes over some of the information you’ll need to begin setting up a system.
Series Links:
Part 1 – (You are here)
Part 2 – Finding Your Router’s IP Address, or Default Gateway
Part 3 – Finding Your Router’s Default Username & Password
Part 4 – Finding Your Network’s DHCP Range
Part 5 – Finding Your Router’s Existing Port Forwarding Information
Part 6 – Finding a Static IP Address for Your Network Device
Part 7 – Finding Your Public IP Address and Setting Up Dynamic DNS
Part 8 – Locating Your Static IP Address Information
Part 9 – DNS & WINS Setup Best Practices
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