Originally Posted by
msb0b
Let's back up a few steps and not assume public IP address is the problem.
What address do you enter to connect to your home network over the Internet? Are you using IP address or dynamic host name?
Not at home at the moment, but will reply with accurate info when I'm back. Appreciate your help. From memory, when going through the Foscam setup, it had me get my IP by going to whatismyip.com (or something similar) and trying to connect via that, from the outside, once my port was open/forwarded. I couldn't even get to my network at all that way. Their instructions said the problem could be that my IP was dynamic, but I was still in the same connection session, so it hadn't changed. Nonetheless, I set up a free IP static IP forwarding address, but that still didn't help. Enabled UPNP on the router and cam, as well as tried manual configuration steps, but nothing worked. Couldn't see my network at all, let alone the cam.
When I am already connected to my network via WiFi, I use 192.168.x.x, but obviously that doesn't solve the outside-access issue.
Originally Posted by
Justme123456
Yes, the media is u/l'd to their servers but no optical zoom. Only digital. And yes, other can connect to it on their hosting site. Which is free.
I should have realized and mentioned before, but being able to host the feed on my own site is much preferable. It's understandable why they want it on their own (ad revenue, control), but that does make it less appealing for me. That said, it looks like I might be down to just an option like them, or uploading still images to my own server, unless I can get Verizon to give me an accessible static IP over LTE (doesn't sound likely) or someone else can help figure out my way around my "unreachable network" issues.