Hi wonder if anyone can help. I have got TOT ADSL silver package. Have just installed a linskys web camera so i can look at bthe house when not here. Can connect and view OK over my own wirless network but when i try and log onto the ip address to view on line I am asked for a username and password which i am pretty certain is from TOT on the router. I have put in phone number@silvercyber aas username and phone number as password. Have tried every combination i can think of but it still rejects it, any ideas?

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DAVE

Most probably it's because when you access your TOT IP address, your router thinks you are trying to access the set-up pages of the router. Much the same like you would type 192.189.1.1 (or whatever IP your router has) on the LAN side. You'd need to have the username/password of your router to get in there. (as opposed to "phone number@silvercyber as username and phone number as password" which is your PPP authentication need by TOT to give you access to the internet.

Two steps needed to solve this problem:

1) tell the webcam to serve it's web interface on another port (standard is 80, make for example 6543 of it). This setting should be available in the web cam's set-up pages, refer to the manual.

2) you'll need to forward this port to the webcam in the set-up pages of your router, so that your router sees vincoming requests to that port number, it has to send them on towards the webcam! Refer to the router's manual.

Afterwards you can access your webcam by typing xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6543, where the x's are your TOT IP address.

From your LAN you'd also need to add the :6543 behind the local ip address to get access to your webcam...

It is possible to "create a port forwarding" in your router, so then if you connect to http://58.12.255.1:2222 what is IP address plus port address.

But I belief that remote viewing a webcam is best don by sign-up with a dynamic DNS service provider, http://www.no-ip.com/ is one but I'm sure that others on this board or with Google you find many many of this companies, some cheap, some expensive and a few free.

If you sign-up for a dynamic DNS service provider you get a URL with login what is something like http://www.no-ip.com/mywebcam. It works like the webcam with dynamic IP address will login into the dynamic DNS service provider and the dynamic DNS service provider gives you a static address.