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Networking Guide Part 6 – Finding a Static IP Address for Your Network

Welcome to another ApexCCTV Video Tutorial on port forwarding for surveillance, this segment will cover how to make sure you are using a valid internal IP address for your DVR or IP camera.

We want to avoid conflicts with other devices, so there are at least 3 things to consider the first is the DHCP range. Once again you’re going to log into your customers router, ours is under LAN setup. Again you can go to port forward.com to find guides to do this on any router imaginable. Here I am at the LAN setup and I see our DHCP range is 192.168.1.100-192.168.1.254 so if I have DHCP turned on it’ll hand out IP’s for anything in that range, so anything under 192.168.1.100 should be just fine with a few exceptions.

You always want to ping an IP address you want to use to make sure there is nothing assigned with that IP address. Never use 192.168.1.1, that’ll almost always be a router or gateway. It’s very likely it’ll be used for something in your network. You can always ask your network administrator, it’s never a bad idea to stay on his good side. It’s likely that your customer will have someone contracted out, so see if you can get ahold of them and if there’s anything specific to be aware of. Another place to look is under port forwarding or port triggering, I’ve seen it called a many different things, port mapping, network address translation they all mean the same thing. I’m just checking the port forwarding table here because if anything were already configured to go to a specific IP address I would know I don’t want to use that one because I’ll end up with traffic problems.

So we’ve done all that and I’m going to pick 192.168.1.80 and we’ll ping it. It looks fine to me, if I picked 192.168.1.50 I get feedback so that’s already taken. You want to find something you can remember; I prefer multiples of 10 or 5. Now I feel pretty safe, I’ve checked the DHCP range, the existing port forwards, I’ve pinged it and I’ve asked my Network administrator to double check. So when I configure my DVR I’ll use 192.168.1.80.

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