I got a Linksys WVC54G Internet camera for Christmas... the blurb says it has a built in web-server and so can be accessed via the Internet remotely. It is wirelessly connected to my Linksys WRT54G router using DHCP.
Now... assuming that I do NOT allow the IP address assigned to the camera to change, then is it REALLY going to be accessible via the Internet. The IP address assigned by the router is a common one and so it not unique (in my opinion) in regard to the WWW i.e. if I type in
192.168.1.xxx remotely this surely cannot be unique and let a remote user access MY camera?
To me the 192.168.1.xxx range of addresses a purely my INTERNAL addresses, irrelevant to the outside world, the only address the world would have a chance of seeing/pinging/accessing would be the routers address, right?
The only other way is to pay an amount to Sololink which provides a unique domain name...which costs, and as I am trialling it, it doesnt work, even though I have port forwarding set up.
So, have I been conned, IS there a way to access my camera remotely on the Internet without using DDNS?
TIA
G