AirLive CW-720 - Manual (Page 20)

2. Getting Started
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2.2 UPnP for Windows
UPnP™ is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that
provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals. This device
is an UPnP enabled device. If the operating system, Windows XP, Vista or 7, of your PC is
UPnP enabled, the Network Camera will be very easy to be found.
Please refer to Chapter 5.9 to enable UPnP settings only if your operating system of PC is
running Windows XP.
Note: Windows 2000 does not support UPnP feature.
To discover your device, go to your Desktop and click My Network Places.
Click the targeted Device. Then Internet Explorer will connect to this Network Camera
automatically.
2.3 Install the IP Camera behind NAT router
Once installed, the device is accessible on your LAN. To access the device from the
Internet, you must configure your broadband router to allow incoming data traffic to the
device. If the device is installed on the LAN with a router, it may get a dynamic IP address
from the DHCP server. If the device wants to be accessed from the WAN, its IP address
needs to be setup as fixed IP, also the port forwarding or Virtual Server function of router
needs to be setup.