wireless cctv set up

[ronttuk]

we bought a cctv set up off ebay it worked for a while then our sky router packed up now we cant get it to work at all no config does nayone have any idea how to set these things up ??

[sidewaysdan]

Have you put the new IP address in the router . If that went down it will have hanged the IP address .

[stevie_b]

The issues you're describing don't sound specific to CCTV. It sounds like a "standard" home networking problem (by that I mean the kind of problem that any home networked device could suffer, not just CCTV).

 

With your cctv, is it all wireless, or just the cameras that connect wirelessly to the cctv base station? It sounds like your setup is more complex than 1 or 2 wireless cameras connecting wirelessly to your router. I'm guessing you have a unit with a hard disk in, to record the footage: this is what I mean by the base station.

 

How does your base station connect to the router: wired, or wireless?

 

I'm making a lot of guesses here, but I guess that you've changed or reset your sky router, and your cctv either isn't recognised as an authorised device (MAC address filtering at the router), or it's on a different IP address range which often means the devices can't connect to each other.

 

Does everything else in your home network work? Do you have anything else in your home network? Which of these are wired, and which are wireless?

 

What I would do:

Connect the cctv system directly to a laptop via an ethernet cable.

Establish a connection: it may require setting the laptop's IP config to something else, especially if your router uses DHCP.

Check the cctv's IP address(es) are in the range you want to use in your network. You shouldn't need to modify anything here, it's just a check.

Check that the cctv system knows the current wireless password you're using (aha! a likely cause)

Connect the laptop back to the router. Ensure the router either has MAC address filtering disabled, or allows the MAC addy(es) of the cctv.

 

There's a lot of geeky language here. It's hard to summarise quickly without it. At each step, the next step is a choice of about 5 things depending on the results of the previous step. Don't be put off. It doesn't take long at all.