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Networking Guide: Part 5 – Finding Your Router’s Existing Port Forwarding Information

Welcome back to our video tutorial series on port forwarding, this will be a fairly brief tutorial that will cover how to find existing port forwards and network address translations in a customer’s router that might cause you problems when you go to configure your surveillance device. Let’s start by opening up internet explorer and browse to your routers LAN IP address and enter your username and password. What your really want is your routers model number, you can always go look at your router, it’s usually printed on the top, and always on the sticker on the bottom.

Now log in and then open a new tab and go to portforward.com. This is a fantastic resource and you should absolutely take a look around to see what they offer. For this video were going to go to the router list, which is an enourmous list with just about every router on the planet. I’m going to do a quick find and search for my router number. When it finds your router go ahead and click on it. Whet I’m looking for in here is my default guide this is not specific to a GeoVision or standalone card it’s just a default guide that shows general port forwarding with this router. When the page loads put your router’s IP into the top of the guide, normally the IP is 192.168.1.1, and then scroll down to start looking at directions.

Since we’ve already logged into the router the next step would be to update the firmware on the router. Click on port forwarding or triggering. What we’re looking for is this generic instruction on port forwarding, so we can already see if anyone has already done this with something else. Some common conflicts are port 80 for a webserver or port 25 for a SMTP server a lot of surveillance devices are using these common ports and we just want to make sure they aren’t already in use, in my case were fine. There’s nothing here preconfigured, and I don’t have to worry about messing up someone else’s equipment. If there had been stuff here you’d need to write it down and compare it line by line to your DVR. You’ll see this a lot with POS systems. Make sure nothing matches, if you already have a port 80 you don’t want to use it for your DVR’s port; we will have to find a way to work around that, which I’ll cover in a later video.

Again real fast, go to portforward.com, router list at the top, search and find you’re your routers model number, then go to the default guide and this should show you how get to the port forwarding screen and anything that you see there should be written down.

Come back and see us next week and see our next video training session which will cover what to do with this information. Thank you everybody and have a great week.