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Notevery1
Follower
Aug 18, 2021

MR1100 port forwarding

I know enough on port forwarding to be dangerous. I'm trying to connect an older Camera system DVR directly to the Nighthawk MR1100 so I may review cameras remotely. The DVR will be the only item nee...
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jimmys-used-car
Aspirant
Jan 15, 2022

I am also trying to re-establish connection between our security cameras remotely - trying to open ports that say they are closed - can't seem to do it from the netgear router - what am I doing wrong???  Need some help please.

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JohnPeng
NETGEAR Expert
Jan 15, 2022
jimmys-used-car wrote:

I am also trying to re-establish connection between our security cameras remotely - trying to open ports that say they are closed - can't seem to do it from the netgear router - what am I doing wrong???  Need some help please.

I have replied to many similar requests recently on the community. Remote access to your local network is not allowed by most of carriers. You need to subscribe special plan with VPN support based on our knowledge. Carriers don't support. It is not the device setting issue.

 

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