AXIS 2120 User’s Manual Installing Your Camera to a Modem
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Connecting Your Computer Using the Null Modem Cable
Important!
Follow the steps below to configure a serial modem connection for your AXIS 2120:
• The information and screen examples featured here are specific to Windows NT. Although similar to
the dial-up procedures in other Windows versions, small deviations in the dialog instructions for
other operating systems should be expected. Refer to your system documentation for further infor-
mation on creating a dial-up modem connection if you are using any other operating system.
• Windows dial-up Networking and TCP/IP must be correctly installed prior to commencing with the
modem cable connection. Detailed information on how to check this is provided in Windows Help.
❶Connect the supplied Null modem
cable between the Serial Connector on
the AXIS 2120 and the serial port on
your computer.
❸From the Start menu, open the
Control Panel and double-click the
Modems icon.
❼Select the serial port to
which your AXIS 2120 is now
connected via the Null
Modem cable. Click Next>.
❽A Standard 28800 modem
connection is now available for
the AXIS 2120. Click Finish to
close the Install New Modem
Wizard.
❹If a Standard Modem is already set up and
displayed in the Modem Properties dialog (see
right) proceed directly to step 8.
❻Select the Standard 28800
modem from the displayed list of
modems. Click Next>.
❾Click the Properties button to finally check that the
displayed Communications Port is set correctly; that is,
set to the same port as you have connected the AXIS
2120. Click OK.
❷ Connect the power supply to the
camera server and check that the Power
Indicator is lit.
❿Click Close.
❺Check the checkbox:
Don’t detect my modem, I will select it
from a list. Click Next>.
