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[Stelcom66]

I set my camera with a static ip address because today I couldn't connect with my desktop shortcut, then realized it was because the dynamic ip had changed, and it will typically at times. Not a big deal, I found what it was with a DOS command. After changing it to a static ip I could not access the camera via mydlink, but could locally. I changed it back to DHCP, and again can access it via mydlink and locally. Is it necessary to keep the DHCP setting for mydlink access?

[FurryNutz]

Either static or dynamic IP should work well with the MDL service.

[Stelcom66]

I wonder why I had trouble - the site kept indicating the camera was offline, but I'd then browse to the ip address and the connection was good. I may try again, but it's fine if I must keep the ip dynamic.

[FurryNutz]

Try setting an IP address reservation on the main host router for the camera. This should work as well.

[Stelcom66]

I should specify I set the camera ip as 192.168.1.126, same as the DHCP address assigned. I was discussing the situation with someone more knowledgeable than I with networking, he mentioned I may need to do 'port forwarding'  on my router, maybe on port 80? I noticed the default static ip was (I believe) 192.168.0.20. I wonder when setting it as static, does it need to be 192.168.0.x? I would think not, since my router is allowing the MDL service through on the dynamic assigned address of 192.168.1.126. I recall though, when I did set it to static 192.168.0.20 - I could not connect either way. I can't say for sure - was doing a lot of configuration changes at the time.

[PAFL]

I use a static IP on my camera with no issues.  I set it to the same as  the DHCP address the first time I did it.
Make sure you set  the subnet mask, gateway and DNS
if not the camera cannot connect to the internet.

[Stelcom66]

"Make sure you set  the subnet mask, gateway and DNS"

That's got to be it, I didn't set that up when setting the ip as static.

Thanks

[Stelcom66]

Thanks PAFL- I set the ip static and this time entered the other required settings like I should have before! Works locally and through mydlink.