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Has anyone sucessfully managed to port forward cameras on Telus WIfi Hub
Hi Everyone, just wondering if anyone has managed to sucessfully port forward any of their cameras on the newer Telus Wifi Hub (it is a white cylindrical shaped modem, there are no manufacturers that...
Certain ports on residential accounts are blocked at the router, 80 and 443 being 2 of them.
See this thread for a discussion on blocked ports: https://forum.telus.com/t5/Internet-Home-Phone/Port-blocking-STILL/m-p/67780
You need to use another port on the WAN side like 8080 and forward that to your camera on port 80 on the LAN side. If you have multiple cameras you will need multiple ports mapped. Something like this for HTTP:
WAN LAN 8081 -> Camera 1 IP: 80 8082 -> Camera 2 IP: 80 8083 -> Camera 3 IP: 80 8084 -> Camera 4 IP: 80 8085 -> Camera 5 IP: 80
You will need similar mapping for RTSP and HTTPS but each on different WAN port ranges. Assign static IP (DHCP reservation) for each of your cameras.
You need to set up a Dynamic DNS service so you can find your home external IP address. You can't count on the assigned IP address being the same over time. When you access camera 1 from outside your network you need to go to http:\\YOUR_DDNS_NAME:8081 for example.
Found this article that explains it in more detail for a specific app. You'll need to decide how much of it applies to your cameras/app.
http://help.angelcam.com/en/articles/372637-how-to-setup-port-forwarding-for-multiple-cameras
