Looking for a decent IP webcam..
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mcrist
Premium Member
If you are planning to view the webcam on the internet be aware that some internet providers do not allow outside traffic to connect to an internal IP address. Verizon does not allow you to do this (of course I found out the hard way) unless you upgrade to their business plan which costs twice as much.
mcrist
Premium Member
Verizon blocks all traffic that originates from the internet so that a home user cannot have a public website. Basically traffic can come from your home account to the internet but not the other way around. You can always upgrade the account to a business account a pay double the cost. I was ****ed off when I discovered this.
mcrist
Premium Member
Yes, getting a static IP address requires a business account.<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9291256#post9291256 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NoSchwag
thanks for the suggestions
mcrist what do you mean? Isn't it as simple as getting a static IP and fowarding a port to the internal ip address?
What port wouldn't they let open?
dr_bull
Member
You can usually get around the static IP address issue by using a dynamic DNS service such as no-ip. Check out www.no-ip.com . They have a free service and one that you can pay for. The difference is with the premium service you can register a domain name with them, with the free service you can have a domain name but it will have something on the end of it. I host my website from my house with their premium service and it works very well. I also use their free service for a few domain names that I use for game servers I host out of my house as well as a teamspeak server, these servers don't require a user frienldy domain name since I only share them with a few friends. Here are some examples.
(note these are just examples, not meant to be clicked)
Free service: www.yourwebsitename.no-ip.org
premium service: www.yourwebsitename.com
You can check out my website by clicking my house.
They also provide a redirect service to get around the ISP's that block port 80 traffic (web traffic) that comes from your house, and it is included in the package you just need to enable it. Basically what happens is you set up your website on a different port other than 80 and no-ip will send that traffic to the proper port on your end. This allows you to bypass verizon's block.
(note these are just examples, not meant to be clicked)
Free service: www.yourwebsitename.no-ip.org
premium service: www.yourwebsitename.com
You can check out my website by clicking my house.
They also provide a redirect service to get around the ISP's that block port 80 traffic (web traffic) that comes from your house, and it is included in the package you just need to enable it. Basically what happens is you set up your website on a different port other than 80 and no-ip will send that traffic to the proper port on your end. This allows you to bypass verizon's block.
mcrist
Premium Member
That was the first thing I tried but Verizon blocks all ports. I wasn't worried about DNS since it was only for me. I figured I would just type my homes IP address but Verizon stopped that. They wanted 99 dollars a month for the business account which I thought was ridiculous. Its not like I am setting up a public website it was just for me.
comcast doesnt block ports either. I run an FTP server, web server from my house and I can connect using remote desktop ( port 3389 ) and do anything I want.
If an ISP blocks all ports ( with the exception of 80 and some other needed one like 25 etc ), then that ISP is useless in my opinion. What you do with your connection is up to you because you pay for it. That would also prevent you from sharing files on a p2p network ( which I'm not endorsing here but just saying LOL ). That could be viewed as a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you look at it.
And I don't see what good it does to block ports for 'spammers' cause 'spam' is an email term and if that ISP blocks my email from coming in, they're useless....if they block the outbound port, then they'd be useless to me since I'm a software developer and constantly use outbound mail for things.
Just my .02.....it burns me up how large corporations try to 'control' their customers.
If an ISP blocks all ports ( with the exception of 80 and some other needed one like 25 etc ), then that ISP is useless in my opinion. What you do with your connection is up to you because you pay for it. That would also prevent you from sharing files on a p2p network ( which I'm not endorsing here but just saying LOL ). That could be viewed as a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you look at it.
And I don't see what good it does to block ports for 'spammers' cause 'spam' is an email term and if that ISP blocks my email from coming in, they're useless....if they block the outbound port, then they'd be useless to me since I'm a software developer and constantly use outbound mail for things.
Just my .02.....it burns me up how large corporations try to 'control' their customers.
