Hi All
After many many phone calls to the Vodacom call centre and a visit to their customer care centre I am about ready to give up.
We have been granted an unrestricted APN for the office connection so we can access the security cameras through an open port that would normally be closed...
Hoping somebody can shed some light on this matter.
I am trying to setup a remote CCTV monitoring system.
In a nutshell its a fancy Samsung DVR with a NIC. the system works fine, I can access it internally no problem.
I'm connecting to the net using a Linksys WRT54G3G and 3G card. I...
The History
There are 3 'consumer' APN's available to the Vodacom user base:
internet - NAT'd IP with all incoming ports blocked, i.e. you can connect to any service with no blocking or shaping of any kind, but your PC can't accept incoming connections. This is out-and-out to protect users...