I have a dvr and I want to monitor from my phone. this worked when I had a Belkin router that let me open ports. I use "canyouseeme" and it can't see 80, 9000 or 1025. How do I make them available?

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I have a dvr and I want to monitor from my phone. this worked when I had a Belkin router that let me open ports. I use "canyouseeme" and it can't see 80, 9000 or 1025. How do I make them available?

I have a Lorex DVR that I want to monitor from my IPhone and IPad. I used to be able to do this when I had a Belkin router (easy to open ports) but I bought the AirPort Extreme router and no longer have that capability. When I use "canyouseeme" they can NOT see 80, 9000 or 1025. Lorex says I need them all available in order to access. Help! And all the help I see refers to a earlier version of the AirPort Utility so I cant use those to look at anything, I cant find the same screens, I have version 6.1 (610.31). I also don't really understand how ports work, so I need a pretty basic explanation.

AirPort-OTHER, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Jul 21, 2012 7:46 AM

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matthew97

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Jul 21, 2012 7:53 AM in response to JudgeJudi

Open Airport Utility (Applicatopns>Utilities>Airport Utility), click on your router, and then click edit on the box that comes up. Click network on the top, and then towards the bottom you will see Port Settings. If you click the "+" there, you can open ports.

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JudgeJudi Author

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Jul 21, 2012 10:47 AM in response to matthew97

To change or add to that list I have to switch the settings to DHCP & NAT, then they do ask for public and private UDP & TCP ports (as mentioned I am over my head) so I fill all those in with the 1025 port and the DVR IP address, update and my AirPort comes back on line but I can no longer access the Internet. So I have to go back change that first option to "Off (bridge mode)"???? and I no longer have the option to add a port setting and I can get to the Internet once again. Thanks for helping.🙂

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Tesserax

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Jul 21, 2012 10:53 AM in response to JudgeJudi

So I have to go back change that first option to "Off (bridge mode)"???? and I no longer have the option to add a port setting and I can get to the Internet once again.

If the AirPort is in Bridge mode, then ALL of its ports are already opened. You would have to configure port mapping/forwarding on the upstream router that has NAT enabled.

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JudgeJudi Author

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Jul 21, 2012 12:28 PM in response to Tesserax

Well...I went to the modem (Westell, WireSpeed), found the NAT settings, once again, I'm WAY over my head, I am assuming this is a TCP connection (as opposed to a UDP) and per Lorex my mobile devices will use port 1025. So I gave it a "global port range" of 1-10 and I indicated that the "base host port" was 80, 1025, & 9000 (ports 1,2,3). When I selected the 'enable' it asked for a "host devise" my choices are my IPhone, IMac and the IP address for the dvr, so I choose the dvr. I still cannot connect and canyouseeme still can NOT find these open ports. This is taking up my whole day! I don't know how people figure this stuff out.😊

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Tesserax

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Jul 21, 2012 6:44 PM in response to JudgeJudi

When accessing a device on the local network from the Internet, you would typically enter the Public IP address of your Internet router followed by a port number. For example, TCP port 80 is used to pass the HTTP protocol. HTTP, as you are probably already aware, is used for web browsing. TCP port 1025 is typically used by the Network File Service (NFS) protocol for transferring files over the Internet. Finally UDP port 9000 is used by UDPCast ... another file transfer protocol.

When you use "canyouseeme" are you doing so from your local network or from a remote location?

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JudgeJudi Author

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Aug 31, 2012 9:03 AM in response to Tesserax

I'm back. Hopefully you will still help. I am using 'canyouseeme' from my iMac

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