Port forwarding and DDNS on B315s-936

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ShamusVW

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I have been on the Telkom uncapped LTE deal now for about a month, and so far I have been very happy with my speeds.
I pointed the antenna in the direction I believed the mast to be, and it seems to be about the best I can get.
DL : 35Mbps (I get about 2-2.2MBps)
UP : 5-7Mbps
Ping : 40-50ms
Distance to mast : 1.5km with trees in the way

But I digress...!

The router I received is the B315s-936 variant. Previously I was on an ADSL 4 meg line with an NVR attached, and the router allowed me to set up DDNS using No-IP to view my cameras at home. However, shortly before going onto the LTE deal, some lightning took out the ADSL port on the router (the wifi/Ethernet side of it still worked fine).
Now with this new router (the B315), I can't choose any other provider except DynDNS on the drop-down in DDNS setup. Unfortunately the difference between DynDNS and No-Ip is one is free, the other is about $40 per annum.

Another option would be to port forward, but I can't find this functionality in the setting either!

Can someone possibly help me? First (easiest) option would be how to add No-Ip to the drop down, the second would be how to port forward.

Thank you.
 
Setup one of the machines inside your network to update your pub ip... What service do you use?
 
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I don't have my computers on all the time. They might be off for a few days at a time. Only the NVR is on permanently.
What service are you asking about? I have a No-IP domain, and my internet is through Telkom.
 
yes there is port-forwarding on those routers... and the ip address changes frequently on LTE network. If you don't have a host that available on the inside network, whats the point of the ddns service?
 
On my original router, I was able to specify No-Ip, and how often I wanted it (the router itself) to update No-IP service with the latest public IP address. I didn't need a computer on the inside network to do it, the router did it itself.
So all I had to do was use the domain name supplied by No-IP to log into my cameras. Now under DDNS on this B315 router I don't have option to choose No-IP, only DynDNS. Is there a way to further populate this list?

Where can I find the port forwarding settings?
 
ShamusVW said:
On my original router, I was able to specify No-Ip, and how often I wanted it (the router itself) to update No-IP service with the latest public IP address.
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I would direct you to tutorials to unlock and flash your device with custom firmware, but this might lead to a bricked device. Its better to look for another solution.
 
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The NVR connects to the network through the standard network port, not sure what other ports it has (at work currently).
It is a HikVision NVR.

From the link, it seems I need to configure a "Special Application". I will check that out tonight, thank you.
 
ShamusVW said:
It is a HikVision NVR.
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Had a quick look and it seems you can enable telnet from the web interface. After enabled, telnet (google telnet, very straight forward) to the device (username: root & password: the same as your web interface pass). Here it can get a little sticky if you don't have any Linux knowledge, but the idea is to first see whats available to you (resources, privileges etc), create a folder somewhere (where it will not affect the rest of the build) and upload a copy (you can use putty client to transfer files or setup a quick filezilla ftp server) of a basic dynamic dns update script (many available - just google)... configure the script with your info, schedule the script (the device should have some basic scheduling available to you) to run at 10min intervals.

I know this sound like a big job for little reward, but if you have the time to do this (and it actually works lol) the work and knowledge would be the reward itself.

You can always have a go at the router if it fails :) or just buy a router with all the capabilities you need.
 
ShamusVW said:
From the link, it seems I need to configure a "Special Application". I will check that out tonight, thank you.
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Actually wrong place. Special Applications require some action from the LAN side to open the port.

Your port forwarding configuration is in the "Virtual Server" section. You need to set camera with a static IP outside Huawei DHCP range.

However you need both port forwarding and DDNS to access cameras. It seems Huawei get kick-backs from DynDNS, it is why other DDNS servers are not allowed. Check if your camera support updating DDNS, problem solved. Alternatively you can install no-ip client on PC, but it must be running all the time.

If your old router has Ethernet WAN port, use it as you did before (port forwarding, DDNS, connect all your LAN devices). Put router's WAN IP address in Huawei DMZ option. B315s will do all LTE things and will foward all packets in both directions. This is the best solution so far for Huawei "Gateway Routers".
 
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labratza said:
With Hik-Vision they have a very hand thing. they have there own dyndns built in. goto www.hik-online.com and then can configure on NVR as well. then just do a virtual server on router and bobs your uncle you are live
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In that case, a good news, but I must ammend my previous post. You have to assing static IP on the Hik-Vision (outside Huawei's DHCP range) and on Huawei you will be forwarding Hik-Vision IP, not a camera IP.

Nice that industry is providing answer to the greed of others.
 
sajunky said:
In that case, a good news, but I must ammend my previous post. You have to assing static IP on the Hik-Vision (outside Huawei's DHCP range) and on Huawei you will be forwarding Hik-Vision IP, not a camera IP.

Nice that industry is providing answer to the greed of others.
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it works like a charm and yeah forward to nvr ip and not camera ip. it takes like 5 min to setup. will only use hik vision nvrs/dvrs with my clients
 
Mr-Macaroni said:
Hi

No-IP as a DDNS provider is supported on the B315s-936 Telkom TD LTE Router with the new firmware published on 03/03/2016. You can download from Huawei site , here is the direct link

NB! - This Firmware is for Telkom B315s-936 TD LTE Routers only according to the website, so don't use on other routers from other Networks.

http://consumer.huawei.com/za/support/downloads/detail/index.htm?id=74989
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Thank for sharing. I saw screen shots from this firmware and noticed it reports Cell ID Cell_ID and SINR on the information page. On my router from Cell C this important info is missing. I have the same hardware version WL1B310TM02, will try to flash anyway. :)
 
Hi,

I am attempting to conncet to my Hikvision DVR as well. I had a TP link router with ADSL worked perfectly, no issues. Now i've moved over to Telkom LTE with a Huawei B315s-936 router. The DVR is connected by lan directly into the router, i have an access point conncted into the router and my PVR into that. My PVR says it has no internet connection. When i use Fing (best app by the way, tells you IP addresses of all you connected devices since this modem is too useless to do that for wired devices) it tells me that the devices are down. My devices connected via Wlan have connection. Is this normal or is there something wrong with the router?

I have double checked all the settings on the virtual server, WAN port 8000 and LAN Port 8000 using DynDNS. Still cannot see my DVR.
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