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Question

Please help a newbie to set up a network camera

Sep 5, 2016 10:28AM PDT

Hello friends.

I am very new at this and need help from a kind soul who understands wifi and networking. My wife and I are first time parents and got an IP camera to monitor our baby. The camera is set up to transmit on port 777, so I can see the camera remotelly by typing its internal IP address followed by :777. So far so good.

The problem is, I can only connect to it while I'm on my own home network, and to connect to it from someplace else, I need to "open" the port and use a service like no-ip.org. That much makes sense, but is also where I'm stuck.
I know how to open my router's ports with its internal configuration page by logging in to its internal IP, but I'm unsure of the values to use.
Do I put 777 is "port range" and 80 in "local port"? Or is it the other way around? Or something else entirely?

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Sure.
Sep 5, 2016 10:41AM PDT

Try it both ways. A range is usually from one number to another. But I can't see your configuration page so I can't be specific. As such, try it both ways.

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Didn't work
Sep 5, 2016 7:45PM PDT
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Sep 5, 2016 8:38PM PDT

That looks like we can name it. Let's call it cam1

Now it also looks like we can enter the 777 in both the port range and local port. So so that.

We don't want to have it arrive on one port number and forward to another port number so these are identical.

You know the local IP so once done, select both TCP and UDP to cover both and try again.

-> Did you try the easy way? Use the DMZ?