samsung SMT-190DN

Hello, I've installed a Samsung SMT-190DN 4 camera system on my house. Everything is working ok except I have not been able to have any luck getting my router to recognize my system, at all....been trying for two days. I have called my service provider (att u-verse - Model # 3800 HGV-B) and recieved the network ip adress, gateway, subnet, dns1 & dns2. I have tried static, DHCP...even ppoe....nothing. The green network light, on the front of the monitor, lights up only when the system initilizes. Then goes off. I've hooked up a laptop to the cat5 and the cable is good...computer worked just fine. This is my first cctv project and I have hit a wall. My apologies if there is a common solution to this problem. I did research in the existing forums but did not happen upon a problem such as this. Could the network adapter, built in the SMT-190dn, be bad from the factory? Thanks in advance for any responses. austin

Well, I had a friend attempt to log on and check my cameras. I am missing something. I port forwarded port 80. I called AT&T and asked them why cant I access my cameras outside my network. They said I have to purchase a static ip address. Is this true? If so, what a downer...

Geez...found the problem. When you said to check the cat5 was plugged into the correct slot it reminded me to check the pins in the DVR...one was bent. I am watching the cameras now, locally. I have port fowarded and believe I am ready for remote acces as well. Again, thanks for the help. Austin

I entered the exact information suggested for ip, subnet, gateway. I logged onto my wireless laptop, which is XP. Brought up the command prompt and typed telnet 192.168.1.200 80 It said: Connecting to 192.168.1.200......could not open connection to the host, on port 80: EDIT: I did confirm that my DVR is set to port 80.

Ethernet adapter local area connection: Connection-specific DNS suffix: gateway.2wire.net IP Address: 192.168.1.69 Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Default gateway: 192.168.1.254 Ethernet adapter wireless network connection media state........: media disconnected. I appreciate your time. Thanks again, austin