ACTi E11 Hardware Manual

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www.acti.comHardware Manual10Accessing the CameraConfigure the IP AddressesIn order to be able to communicate with the camera from your PC, both the camera and the PChave to be within the same network segment. In most cases, it means that they both shouldhave very similar IP addresses, where only the last number of the IP address is different fromeach other. There are 2 different approaches to IP Address management in Local AreaNetworks – by DHCP Server or Manually.Using DHCP Server to Assign IP AddressesIf you have connected the computer and the camera into the network that has a DHCP serverrunning, then you do not need to configure the IP addresses at all – both the camera and thePC would request a unique IP address from DHCP server automatically. In such case, thecamera will immediately be ready for the access from the PC. The user, however, might notknow the IP address of the camera yet. It is necessary to know the IP address of the camera inother to be able to access it by using a Web browser.The quickest way to discover the cameras in the network is to use the simplest networksearch, built in the Windows system – just by pressing the “Network” icon, all the cameras ofthe local area network will be discovered by Windows thanks to the UPnP function support ofour cameras.In the example below, we successfully found the camera that we had just connected to thenetwork.