Hi,
I am trying to view my IP camera from the Internet.
It works very well on the LAN. camera's IP 192.168.1.100 the camera is hooked to the lan side of a router
other side of the router given by my ISP is 192.168.0.36
I took a domain name from www.dyndns.org it detects my ISP's public address
But when I try to use the domain the I got from dyndns.org it shows my ISP website homepage.
What can I do to view my camera image from the internet?
Thanks
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The problem is, in order to access your LAN you need to be able to forward the appropriate traffic from the device with the public IP to the camera. In this case the ISP controls the device with the public IP. It is unlikely they will be willing to set up port forwarding to your router for you.
VNC would have the same issue. Another option however might be to set up a VPN that requires not port management, such as Hamachi which is also free. This would give you access to a desktop PC on the LAN. If the PC ran Remote Desktop or VNC, you could connect to it, and from there view your camera. Details regarding Hamachi can be found here:
http://www.lan-2-wan.com/3
Great let us know how it goes.
There are other utilities like http://www.logmein.com you could try as well. Basically you need one that doesn't require port forwarding. Hamachi and LogMeIn (different types of applications but same company now) both connect to a 3rd part server from both ends, making them outgoing connections, which is how they get around the port forwarding. Either works well. Hamachi would give you a little more flexibility, as it creates a virtual tunnel to your entire LAN..
You could try entering the LAN IP of the camera in a web browser http://192.168.1.100 of yous remotely connected machine, but it probably will not work, depending on the operating system you are running on the main site computer. If XP you could try enabling routing using the following registry change: http://www.petri.co.il/
However, I would recommend connecting to the camera site PC using Remote Desktop (if XP Pro) over the VPN, or if an other O/S you can use VNC http://www.canyouseeme.com
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by: RobWillPosted on 2007-05-21 at 14:08:07ID: 19129830
192.168.0.36 is a private IP, which must be being assigned by another device such as a modem that is a combined router and modem. In order to connect you will need to have port forwarding enabled on that device to forward to your router, and then port forward on your router to the camera. Some good details for port forwarding for different models of routers can be found at:
http://www.portforward.com
If you have modem that is a combined modem and router you may also be able to put it in bridge mode and forward all traffic to the router. The router still will need port forwarding to the camera. This is the better method if you are to have the DDNS service work.
Once complete you will need to use the external IP of the site which will not start with 192.168.x.x