Yes, but ONLY if you want the 2-week buffering or so of DVR recording of your stream. They give you a free trial of it but it is not mandatory. I opted no to get it. So, I pay $0 monthly. I just check in on the live feed.

Indeed I use my 4G LTE Verizon mobile hotspot distributed via "WiFi as WAN" via a Cradlepoint router as my connection (unlimited data grandfathered), so I doubt they'd be willing to provision a public IP for me, but that's a great idea worth trying.

As you noted, the hotspot won't work with UPNP, even though the router does.

That looks perfect on the surface. I'm going to look more into it. At first glance, I can't tell if it will get around my port forwarding issue though... is all the media uploaded to their servers, so I don't need to worry about the issues I've described in my earlier posts? If it also has optical zoom and the ability for others to connect without a substantial fee, it could be a very viable option.

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.

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.


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.

Try and use a different connection to check the port forwarding. Many (usually older) routers have trouble routing packets that loop back to its own external interface.

I suspected that and tried. No luck. (It's a newer router- Cradlepoint MBR1400 - btw).

Sorry for the long delay. Determined that the port forwarding, etc. is incompatible with 4G LTE, so that was my problem - not the router or configuration.

Learned that Cloudcam.biz will work with LTE, but am wondering if the aforementioned Dropcam.com will as well. Can anyone shed more light on Dropcam working with LTE, or even more helpful, comparing it to Cloudcam.biz? I can definitely go with Cloudcam - just wondering if Dropcam is an alternative, and if so, if superior. Thanks!

I have the same camera and it sends images to the email I use on my smartphone.
I keep one of the emails in the inbox.
At the top of the email is a link which will be something like http://****.myfoscam.org:**** (with * representing numbers)
When you click that link, you can sign directly into the camera at your house with a live feed and watch it on your phone.

Right, but only if on the same local network. Because my internet connection is via LTE, I cannot access from outside the home (determined that with help of others in the course of this thread). Need to move to one of the two aforementioned services to get around that, as remote access (not just when home) is what I seek. Trying to determine which of the two (or another competitor I'm not aware of) is most suitable. Thanks.

It works for me from away from home, Wi-Fi or 4G.

Mooper is saying that his home internet connection is via LTE, not that he is trying to access from a LTE network when he's away from home.

gfunkdave is correct. Sorry I wasn't more clear.

I am quite new at this, so be gentle.

For streaming/photos from home for monitoring the house/pets while on a trip, is the webcam generally the preferred method? One webcam per computer, or can you do more? Limit?

What about buying several tablets and enabling their cameras, over the wifi?

I have looked at the 8- or 16-camera security machines (Lorex, Swann, Q-See, etc.), but don't see the need in my case for a DVR "base unit" particularly, which appears to cost a decent amount. Or does that give you added power/flexibility?

Any other recommendations? Thanks.

Dropcams are great, but they are a giant bandwidth hog. Dropcams all connect to a central cloud-based service, and use about 60GB/month of bandwidth. Your phone then connects to the same cloud service to view.