Setting up Remote Viewing - Appendix #3

Network - Router Port Forwarding

You will need to enable port forwarding on your Router to allow for external communications with your System for ports:

•TCP/IP PORT 6100

•WEB PORT 80

Computers, Systems, and other devices inside your network can only communicate directly with each other within the internal network. Computers and systems outside your network cannot directly communicate with these devices. When a system on the internal network needs to send or receive information from a system outside the network (i.e. from the Internet), the information is sent to the Router.

NETWORK EXAMPLE

Router

 

 

 

Router

Computer

 

 

External IP

 

 

 

Internal IP

Internal IP

 

 

216.13.154.34

 

 

192.168.0.1

192.168.0.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

System

Internal IP 192.168.0.3

Internet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internal Network

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When a computer on the Internet needs to send data to your internal network, it sends this data to the external IP address of the Router. The Router then needs to decide where this data is to be sent to. This is where setting up Port Forwarding becomes important.

Port Forwarding tells the router which device on the internal network to send the data to. When you set up port forwarding on your Router, it takes the data from the external IP address:port number and sends that data to an internal IP address:port number (i.e Router External IP 216.13.154.34:6100 to System Internal IP 192.168.0.3:6100).

The instructions found online in the Router Configuration Guide will assist you in the port forwarding configurations for a selection of different router models.

Visit our Consumer Guides Support website at http://www.lorexcctv.com/support for details

Web - Finding Your External IP Address

You will need to have your External IP address to set up your DDNS account. One of the fastest ways to find this information is to use a 3rd Party website such as http://www.showmyip.com

Your IP address can also be found within your Router settings. Refer to your router user guide for further details.

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