How-to Connect a Security Camera DVR to a Wireless Router

Sometimes customers install CCTV DVRs in locations that do not have a hard wired Network connection. For example, maybe you ran all of your RG59 or CAT5 cable for your security cameras back to a closet where your DVR will be located, but you had no way to run a network cable from your wireless router to that location. Most CCTV DVRs and network recorders for IP cameras only have a wired Ethernet port (no built-in WIFI).
Now, you want to view your security cameras remotely over the Internet and in order to do this, you need to connect your DVR to your router.

What can you do?

 
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Wireless Network Diagram to Connect DVR to WIFI Router

This is how it works using the above example installation.

1. There are two X-Den security cameras hard wired to an DVR surveillance DVR. using RG59 coax cable. However, this solution works the same if you are using IP cameras with a network video recorder.
2. The DVR only has Ethernet port for network connectivity (no built-in WIFI).
3. The Ethernet port of the DVR is hard wired to the wireless bridge using CAT-5e cable. I am using a WIFI-AP3500 for the wireless bridge. The WIFI-AP3500 is actually a multi-purpose wireless device. It can be configured as a router, access point, or bridge. This one is configured in bridge mode which enables it to connect to our router.
4. The WIFI-AP3500 is configured to connect to the Linksys / Cisco wireless router using the WIFI.
5. The Linksys router is connected to the Internet. This can be using a DSL, cable, dedicated fiber, or any other type of modem / Internet connection.