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Hi all, I have stumbled upon this forum having searched endlessly for some help! Right, I have: A virginmedia wifi connection in my house which has a laptop, ipad and mobile phone using it. A 'VONETS VAP11G' wifi bridge 'EN6404V' DVR (for home cctv) 'Avtech Eagle EyesHD (plus) 1.1.4.6' on the ipad What's happened so far?... By some pure fluke I've managed to get the Volnet wifi bridge to have its blue light on whilst plugged into the dvr's ethernet cable port. I have absolutely no idea about networking and 'gateways' and 'subnet masks' mean absolutely nothing to me I'm afraid! On the pre-loaded software on the dvr is a menu and settings for joining a network.... the three options are 'STATIC' , 'DHCP' or 'PPPOE' - each option as a multitude of ports / channels /gateways etc etc to fill in. I've tried googling what all these means and it just doesn't make sense to me! Could one of you guys please explain how on earth I get my non-wifi ip cameras to connect to my wifi network (so I can view on ipad / remotely etc.) using this vonets bridge I've purchased. I'm stumped! Many thanks, Sam

Hi all, Right, I've gone for plan b and bought I 15m network cable. I've plugged one end into the ISP-provided WIFI router and the other to the DVR... where do I go with it this now? Cheers, Sam

Hi again, Right, this is getting really frustrating! Would my 'plan b' be any easier?... Purchase a 15M Cat5e network cable and run it from the back of the DVR to one of the ethernet ports on the back of my ISP-provided wireless router? I would still have wireless internet in the house for the laptop / ipad / phone / printer etc. but the DVR would have a physical connection to the router... can that be done? If so, I'm guessing I could still access the cctv feed via the 'outside' internet and ipad app? Would this be easier for me to sort than using the wifi bridge? Regards, Sam

Hi again, After a night's sleep I'm ready for having another go! The good news is that I've managed to find a pdf version of the instruction booklet for the DVR set-up. As for the 'Vonets' wifi bridge - The instructions (if you an call them that) that came with it on the cd are about as good as you're going to get... they are made in China and the instructions are very generic. I have 'restored' my laptop to 48hrs ago as I felt I had got myself into a little bit of a muddle with some of the connections and stuff. I'm going to follow the instructions on the PDF the best I can although it does not have anything about using a wifi bridge. However, regarding the STATIC/ DHCP / PPPOE options; I chose 'DHCP' to see if it would 'automatically' find the IP address... and it did. Still not sure what I need to do about the 'DDNS' settings and/or if I have a 'static ip' from my ISP (they're a cable provider) or a ever-changing one. I'll feel as though I'll be an expert after all of this! Cheers, Sam EDIT: ... and now neither Google Chrome nor IE will allow me to go to my router's web address?? EDIT (again) ^^ Right, I've managed to get on the router page... I appear to have somehow changed my router's address to 192.168.0.6? - The same address as what the DVR has picked up??

Hi again, Regarding the DDNS part of the set-up... is that anything to do with the 'MAC ADDRESS'? - Can't seem to find much else on the 'info' part of the DVR's set-up menu. Secondly, do I need to go into my main wifi router (the one the internet provider supplied) and change anything? This seems to be incredibly hard! Cheers, Sam EDIT: Right, tried entering the ip numbers etc. but get 'Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data.' when I try and connect via a web browser. (The DVR uses a browser type interface by the way).

Hi again, Right, I've checked that the wifi bridge thing works how you've said and it does! I've jotted down the ip etc. details from viewing the connection in the 'details' section of the internet connection and since plugged the bridge back into the CCTV DVR. It's atill flashing blue which (I think) is a good sign. However, on the 'network' menu on the DVR software are three options: STATIC, DHCP and PPPOE. On STATIC, the things I need to fill in are: Media port (pre-filled in as 09000) Web Port (pre-filled in as 00080) Ip address: Subnet mask: Gateway: DNS: UPNP (what's this?) (ON/OFF options) then a sub menu of DDNS settings ^^^ Is this the option I want then? If so, what are the ports etc? Also, how does this transmit the video footage?.. and where to? Sorry for all the questions

Hi, The wifi bridge is the same as this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vonets-VAP11G-WIFI-Bridge/dp/B0050AI804 Unfortunately the 'instructions' it came with was next to useless... I just followed the installer / set-up CD until it said 'congratulations... it's ready to use'. I plugged it into my dvr (the wifi bridge flashes blue... supposedly this means it is picking up my wifi signal) and went into the menu area of the dvr (to set up the network for the ip cameras) but haven't a clue what to put. I'm guessing the bridge device is working correctly but I have no idea about the IP side of things? Thanks, Sam

Hi, Many, many thanks for your response! I'm a little confused here... 2. On your VONETS VAP11G wifi bridge. 2-1. Connect your laptop to the bridge via a network patch cable, and then access the IP address of the bridge. 2-2. See if your VONETS picks up your VIRGIN wifi signal. 2-3. set it to STATIC mode (the IP address never changes), and then assign an IP address that does not overlap with the rest of the products. If your laptop has 192.168.1.101, and so forth, you may want to assign the bridge 192.168.1.200. Subnet should be the same as on your laptop, and the gateway should be the same as your laptop as well. 2-4. On your laptops command prompt, PING one of the other devices that are already on the network (which can be often found within the router itself). If your iPad has an IP address of 192.168.1.102 for example, PING 192.168.1.102 and you should get 4 returns. I had already followed the user cd for the Vonets bridge (Had to plug into my laptop and install drivers / go through a set-up process etc.) and I've since unplugged it from my laptop and fixed it to the cctv dvr. It's flashing blue which (I think) means it's picking up my wifi signal....? I'm really sorry but I'm no good with this kinda stuff. The advert for it made it look so easy! EDIT:... how would I set the vonets bridge to 'static mode'?