CCTV and ADSL Help !!

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marine1

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Hi guys need some help.
I purchased some CCTV eqipment and installed it, all working perfectly and I can view the feed on the LAN.

I now want to view it over WAN but it is not working and I am doing something wrong.

I set up a DYNDNS account and entered it on the router and tried to setup everything but still it isnt working.

I have also tried Port forward but my router isnt listed.
Billion 7300 G

Please, some help
 
Your router most likely does not support NAT loopback, which would mean that you won't be able to test the port forwarding from the LAN on that router -> so you'll have to test it from another Internet connection: eg. via 3G

For the port forwarding to work correctly, your CCTV equipment has to have the default gateway & subnet mask set correctly - like the rest of your PC's connected to that router.

The port forwarding is usually called Virtual Servers.

Could you perhaps tell us what kind of CCTV thing it is that you want to port forward for?
 
Oh god now if Only I knew how to fix it :D
It is an "Alhua" 8 ch
As I said , on LAN it works perfectly, but on WAN, it says "your port is not open or reachable" ) portforward.com
 
AFAIK you cannot use port forwarding for the RTSP protocol.

The port forwarding testing sites won't be able to test connections that use UDP either.

I can't find anything regarding the port numbers and protocol for that device, so I can't really help you any further.
 
Marine you'll have to go more indepth with precisely how you access the feeds on the Lan,if there is any plugins etc to install,and how you configured port forwarding to the router,and also who your ISP is
 
marine1: make sure that the device is listening/binding on 0.0.0.0 IP address, and not on a LAN IP address such as 10.0.0.3.

Does that CCTV device have terminal access, where you can log in and ping Internet hosts, such as 'ping www.google.co.za' ?
 
marine1 said:
It works like a charm man really thanks so much was totally beyond what I expected from anyone man, really owe you big time.
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Awesome great to hear :) and no prob at all, had my share of help from others on the forum :D
 
Pada said:
D3x!: care to share what the problem was?
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Well basically I logged in with team viewer, then recreated the dynamic dns name as couldn't reach it from my side, then removed the dmz and port forward settings, then the DVR wouldn't let us change the port so marine1 changed it from the unit instead of the software and I reconfigured the port forwarding to the new port.

Even when we do clients those billions are tricky, the easiest by far is netgears to be honest.
 
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