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 happens when I just enter the IP address without the port number. I tried turning off access control in Advanced Setup but nothing changed.
The setup for port forwarding seems pretty simple and I have used port forwarding before on a Linksys router and there was nothing to it - worked perfectly right away.
Did firmware check and the router reports up to date.
There must be something real simple I am overlooking.
I use the local 192.168 address as the destination of the forward but I think I still need to use the Internet address of the router to get to the router from out on the public Internet.
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.
