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Router Port Forwarding
Router Port Forwarding
How do I enable Port Forwarding on my Router?
You will need to enable port forwarding on your Router to allow for external communications with
your Observation System.
Computers, Observation Systems, and other devices inside your network can only communicate
directly with each other within the internal network. Computers and systems outside your network
cannot directly communicate with these devices. When a system on the internal network needs
to send or receive information from a system outside the network (i.e.. from the Internet), the
information is sent to the Router.
When a computer on the Internet needs to send data to your internal network, it sends this data
to the external IP address of the Router. The Router then needs to decide where this data is to
be sent to. This is where setting up Port Forwarding becomes important.
Port Forwarding tells the router which device on the internal network to send the data to. When
you set up port forwarding on your Router, it takes the data from the external IP address:port
number and sends that data to an internal IP address:port number (i.e Router External IP
216.13.154.34:5000 to Observation System Internal IP 192.168.0.3:5000).
The instructions found online in the Router Configuration Guide
will assist you in the port
forwarding configurations for a selection of different router models.
Visit our Consumer Guides Support
website at http://www.lorexcctv.com for more details
Computer
Internal IP
192.168.0.2
Observation
System
Internal IP
192.168.0.3
Router
Internal IP
192.168.0.1
Router
External IP
216.13.154.34
NETWORK EXAMPLE
Internet
Internal Network