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I recently purchased a Foscam camera for a remote location that has a wireless router as the only thing on that particular network. In other words, there are no computers on that network and I had hoped to put a security camera on that network since it's a fairly remote location. I've been able to get the security camera to be viewable on that network but my hope is to access the camera using the router's external IP with that given port for the camera tacked onto the end of the URL (i.e. http://174.169.19.321:8090) I've been led to believe that if I can successfully 'port forward' the router, I can make that happen. So far, the camera guys blame the router manufacturer, and the router guys (Buffalo) blame the camera guys so with the finger pointing, I'm not too happy with either. Is there a "how to" guide for doing something like this available? Is this 'port forward' basically all that's needed once I can view the camera on the internal network IP ? Thanks for any pointers, cov

Thanks for the reply - I've used two separate port checkers. One within the utilities of Port Forward util and the second, canyouseeme.org. To be honest though, this is the first I've heard of a need to have an rtsp port open, I'll have to check that out.

Is it possible to have everything set up, ports forwarded okay, connection and port being verified as okay and open with Internet utilities available and then, somehow being blocked by your ISP upstream? I've wondered about that since I have a great picture on my local network, seemingly have ports open, forwarded, and available and yet - cannot access the camera on the Internet.

Another subject I've wondered about. I've identified the camera IP and port on the internal network and have wondered if that network with NEED a computer on it to hold the camera IP static ? I'd hoped to just have the camera on the network by itself but am not sure how doable that is.

I tried this on another machine where the firewalls were shut off and was surprised that all ports that I tried show closed. On this other machine, I didn't 'port forward' any ports but would have thought that with firewalls all shut off, ports might show open.

Thanks for the reply guys. I've tried the Port Forward and even bought their software utilities. So far, nada. I've also tried a couple of port open testing tools and in every case, all ports were closed. I've shut off my Windows 7 firewall and shut off the firewall within the Buffalo router as well. One thing I haven't read about and an assumption I'd like to get some clarity on. If the internal IP for this router is 192.168.1.1 and the external IP for the router is 74.161.82.10 (just examples), and I can get the camera to work on 192.168.1.1:8090, shouldn't I be able to see the camera on the Internet at 74.161.82.10:8090 ??? It's really frustrating that I can get the camera working on the internal IP and local network but not get it viewable on the Internet. Since we have offices a few miles away, I need to get it onto the Internet to be useful. Another thing I've seen quite a bit of is port forwarding for gaming with a list of games and recommended ports and one might think there would be something in terms of recommendations for security cameras but I haven't seen anything.