A router is a network device...it is totally unrelated to the hard drive (I'm assuming you're referring to an external hard drive and not the computer tower). At any rate, you might google "wireless router image" so you get an idea of what one looks like. Generally, on the back of wireless routers, there are also network jacks (it doubles as a wired router as well). Network jacks look like phone jacks, only bigger. If you have 2 computers that both access the Internet, then you most likely have at least a wired router. If there is an antenna on the router, then it is wireless as well. There would be a wire going from your cable or dsl modem to your router, and then potentially wires going from the router to your 2 computers. Or more likely, you have a wireless router and have wireless network cards in each computer which communicate with the router wirelessly. Laptops these days come with wireless network cards built in. Desktop computers sometimes have them.
Long story short, if you verify that you have a router, and if it is wireless, you could buy either a wired or wireless IP camera. If, however, your router is only wired, then you will need to buy a wired IP camera. IP cameras will communicate directly with your router...not your computer initially. Your computer (including the icamsource) can access your IP camera(s) through the router.
If this doesn't help, locating the brand/model number of all equipment hooked up to your cable/dsl router...or try taking some pictures of your cable/dsl modem and all equipment hooked up to it, as well as the back of the computers. Maybe someone can help tell you what you have.
Sounds like you need an IP camera (either wired or wireless will work). You need to have a router to hook the IP camera(s) up to....or a USB extender cable (although I think these have a significant limit on distance).
It depends on the network(s) that you're on and how they communicate with each other. Complex networks have a harder time routing everything correctly. If, once you get icamsource setup on your computer correctly, you can view the video from both your home network and from the 3g network, then you probably don't need port forwarding. If you have more than one camera, there's a good chance (at least based on my experience) that you will possibly need port forwarding.
Read the post linked below. Jay posted a link to it within that post...but also read my post because there is some additional information that you might find useful.
I think someone else had a similar problem to you...and the general thought was that it was probably hardware/driver issue with the USB ports. I don't remember seeing a fix posted. You might look through and see if you can find that post. It was a couple of weeks ago I think...if that helps find it.
Run icamsource as a service. There's a post on here that details how to do it. The only downside...you can't access icamsource unless you stop the service and then start icamsource from the Start Menu (instead of as a service). But as a service, it doesn't show up in the system task bar. Like you, I searched for free programs that would hide icons in the system tray, but never did find one. Bummer. But I do run it as a service, and it works great!
Your employer is either blocking communication with your home IP address, or with the broker server. My employer, a public school, has an aggressive firewall that blocks pretty much everything (or so it seems). I have the same issues as you. Are you able to connect with 3g? Try turning off your wireless at work and see if you can view it again.
Do you have another firewall program? Maybe one wrapped in with your antivirus? And did you assign your computer a static IP and forward the UDP ports to the correct static IP address?
I bet you didn't set up the port forwarding. I had the same issue until I carefully read/followed the port forwarding directions linked at the top of the forum.
You have different UDP ports open for each computer on the router, right? Each computer with icamsource needs several (5 I think) ports. I have 2 computers and was having issues until I read the port forwarding posts and opened up 10 ports on the router (5 for each computer). Did you also enable the ports in icamsource?
Initially I was only able to connect to one computer. After correctly configuring the port forwarding, everything started working great.
Are these CPU usage percentages for Macs??? Mine is only between 2-6% for 1 instances of icamsource...with motion detection and push notifications enabled for my IP camera.
They only support 4 cameras right now. However, you could set up 4 instances of icamsource with one username/password, and then run 2 more instances with a different username/password. The problem is that you would only get push notification for the account that you are currently logged into as on your iPhone. Make sense? Not very convenient. If your phone is jailbroken, it might (?) be possible to install the iCam app twice....and login with each username with each iCam app. I've never researched that, so I don't know if it's possible to run 2 instances of the iCam app on your phone.
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