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dennisr0
Feb 27, 2023Aspirant
Port Forwarding R7000
Trying to port forward to the security cameras on my home network. When I enter the Internet address of the router with the port number appended I get a message of "connection refused". Same thing ha...
michaelkenward
Feb 27, 2023Guru - Experienced User
dennisr0 wrote:
Trying to port forward to the security cameras on my home network.
Make and model of the cameras? Maybe someone has "been there, done that" and can point the way.
The people who make these things are often clueless and their setup instructions are hopeless.
- dennisr0Feb 27, 2023Aspirant
Vivotek cameras and I have several models but the software and instructions are pretty much all the same. However, I don't think the port forward is getting past the router so the camera isn't the problem. When I try to connect to the router I get a message that the router has rejected the connection. It rejects the connection whether I append the port number to the router IP or not.