First thing to do is unplug the camera and take it into your house. You never work on that sort of thing with the camera hundreds of feet away and with all that other hardware between your computer and the camera. Get it working at your desk, first, and then take it out and put it in its final location.
The readers digest version of what is required to make it work is your computer and the camera must be on the same IP network. So if your desktop computer has an IP of say 192.168.1.2 then the camera will have to have an IP somewhere in the range of roughly 192.168.1.3 - 192.168.1.253.
So if your computer is 192.168.1.2 and the camera is 192.168.1.3 they will be able to talk to each other and the camera should work. Your router is likely set up with DHCP which means it will assign the IP addresses to devices on your network. Your router also likely does Network Address Translation (NAT) which will give you a public (internet) IP address. NAT allows the public IP address and the internal addresses in the 192.168.1.x range to talk to each other and therefore those devices can access the internet and vice versa. There is also something called port forwarding in your router, which may eventually need to be set up for the camera so that you can access the camera from the Internet. But don't worry about port forwarding to start with. See if you can get your desktop to talk to the camera first just using your local internal (192.168.1.x) network.
Find the install manual for the camera and it should walk you through setting the camera up to work with your network. If you bring the camera in the house as I suggested, you'll have a lot more luck. It shouldn't be that complicated to set up. Normally it only takes 15 minutes.
Oh, and if you do set it up so that you can access the camera from the internet or using your phone when you're out and about, just keep in mind that people will be using that camera to watch you. None of those cameras are secure and you can count on people watching you. The only way to avoid that is to set up a VPN (virtual private network) that is required to access the camera.
The readers digest version of what is required to make it work is your computer and the camera must be on the same IP network. So if your desktop computer has an IP of say 192.168.1.2 then the camera will have to have an IP somewhere in the range of roughly 192.168.1.3 - 192.168.1.253.
So if your computer is 192.168.1.2 and the camera is 192.168.1.3 they will be able to talk to each other and the camera should work. Your router is likely set up with DHCP which means it will assign the IP addresses to devices on your network. Your router also likely does Network Address Translation (NAT) which will give you a public (internet) IP address. NAT allows the public IP address and the internal addresses in the 192.168.1.x range to talk to each other and therefore those devices can access the internet and vice versa. There is also something called port forwarding in your router, which may eventually need to be set up for the camera so that you can access the camera from the Internet. But don't worry about port forwarding to start with. See if you can get your desktop to talk to the camera first just using your local internal (192.168.1.x) network.
Find the install manual for the camera and it should walk you through setting the camera up to work with your network. If you bring the camera in the house as I suggested, you'll have a lot more luck. It shouldn't be that complicated to set up. Normally it only takes 15 minutes.
Oh, and if you do set it up so that you can access the camera from the internet or using your phone when you're out and about, just keep in mind that people will be using that camera to watch you. None of those cameras are secure and you can count on people watching you. The only way to avoid that is to set up a VPN (virtual private network) that is required to access the camera.
