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Originally Posted by fat boy
I do have a static IP address(4 of them) avalible if needed but I still don't get it and need a work sheet to walk me through any way that is needs to be done. thanks for any help.
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Here is my short version:
Your camera has been given an internal IP address for your internal network. You can't use that IP to access the camera from the outside.
You are going to use one of the static IP addresses you have. This is a publicly available address. To get this to work, the router/firewall that sits between the internet and your internal network has to be configured to send traffic from the Internet that is meant for your camera, to your camera. This is done through "port forwarding".
Check your camera's documentation to see if there are any special requirements for a port you can use. (A port is just a number.) You need to check to see if there are port numbers that you should or shouldn't use, and find out the port type you should use (UDP or TCP).
Once you know the port number and type you are going to use, the router/firewall should be configured in port forwarding to forward traffic arriving for that port to your camera. Let's say your camera's INTERNAL IP address is 192.168.1.200 and you are going to use port 400. You'll tell the router/firewall (for the specific static IP you're going to use) to forward port 400 to 192.168.1.200.
Let's say your PUBLIC static IP is 200.200.200.123. To access your camera from the outside, you'll put
http://200.200.200.123:400 in the address bar of your browser. Since there is a ":400" at the end of the address, when the traffic gets to your router, it will send the traffic to your camera since the traffic has been identified for port 400.
Well, maybe not short, but about the shortest I could do.
Good luck!