Tech help? Trying to get a webcam accessible from anywhere on the web

Trying to build myself some home security chops.

As a first step I bought one of these cheapo Foscam knock-off IP cameras:

http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Internet-Surveillance-Microphone-mon...

And with a bit of a learning curve got it set up and accessible from any browser on my home network.

Kind of stuck as to the next step . . . received overwhelming advice on a Mac forum that left me not knowing what to do next. It seems I need a static IP? And my only option is to use a paid service? Someone recommended I sign up with https://www.no-ip.com/ wich I did last night, but no idea what to do next. Looking for some handholding.

I look forward to being able to help others through this process :-)

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Permalink Reply by h' 1.0 on December 17, 2012 at 12:53am

Thank you John.

Doing my best to follow, I entered this (click to enlarge):

And got this (again):

Hopefully just one little thing I'm not getting right?

(leaving the dns field blank produced same result.)

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Permalink Reply by h' 1.0 on December 17, 2012 at 1:01am

Um.... yeah, I noticed my dyslexic error; I reentered with the correct IP and now it's rebooting...

So I think it would probably lead to bad things if I gave it a single digit IP location like it keeps getting now.... my other cam is at 192.168.1.56-- would 192.168.1.58 be an OK location for this one?