RE: Mobile broadband and CCTV

["Peter Church" <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim,



I think Nigel is right that depending on the APN settings you may or may
not
get an external IP address - I'm in Ireland so not comparable, but there
was
something like 3ireland and 3internet in the APN choices - there is a
massive thread on Boards.ie about this if of any interest.



The problem I still had was that the Huawei B260a modem is also a router,
and wants to do DHCP, NAT etc itself and whatever I did to it I could not
see past it onto my network that hangs off a Netgear router that sits
behind
the Huawei so I gave up trying.



If you have a modem directly into a router you may have more luck, and the
DynDNS could work, but you need to make sure you can see the router at
least
- I can remotely manage my Huawei using the DynDNS name and/or WAN IP but
nothing more on my network.



Hope that helps


Pete



From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Nigel Giddings
Sent: 05 May 2012 13:29
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Mobile broadband and CCTV





Tim,

>From memory there are 2 APN settings that '3' have, one provides an
external IP and the other provides an internal (to three) IP address.

Is the IP address that is allocated to you by three, the one you see with
DYNDNS a public IP?

Nigel

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx
<mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
] On Behalf
Of
Tim Hawes
Sent: 05 May 2012 09:17
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Mobile broadband and CCTV

Hi Pete,

Can I pick your brains a bit more please?

I've now got all the bits I was intending to use - Vigor 2820n router,
Huawei E200 USB dongle (to plug into router) and a mobile BB sim from 3.
As I was expecting the 3G coverage at the property isn't great although I
do get a connection and can surf / pick up emails etc.

The updater on the Vigor router correctly updates dyndns with my the
dongle's current IP so I know that works.
Pinging <mydomain>.dyndns.org works and reports the correct IP
address.

However, when I try to connect to the house from a remote location,
internet explorer (need activeX) returns a "cannot display the
webpage"
message.

3 say their network doesn't support this type of remote access but I spent
10mins educating the service rep on how dyndns works so I'm not entirely
sure that's "fact".

Did you have any trouble like this?
I was starting to suspect the dongle/router combination (vs your 3g
router) but the ping is successful.

Any help appreciated,

Cheers,
Tim.

On 10 April 2012 17:17, Peter Church <yahoo@xxxxxxx
<mailto:yahoo%40petechurch.co.uk>
> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> I do just that, so have some experience.
>
> I have a Huawei B260 3G router rather than a dongle, and on the
> network I have Comfort, a low power Aleutia PC (running my 1-wire
> stuff and allowing access to WizComfort etc) and the CCTV DVR.
>
> To start with I have to admit that my connection is not good as I am
> in a very rural area in Ireland and have a booster installed (which
> I'm not sure makes much difference, but it has a smashing blue light!)
>
> So, the minimum data registered on a daily basis is 0.05Mb, which
> presumably is just "ticking over". On days when the PC sends
a
> temperature update e-mail (500kb) this seems to rise to about 1.5Mb
> (presumably due to the poor
> connection)
>
> As for accessing CCTV - I do not do it very often, and have also had
> to abort the idea of accessing the DVR directly via a DynDNS server
> because of problems getting the ports to forward correctly over the
mobile broadband.
> Instead I use Teamviewer to access the remote PC and run locally from
> there.
> This probably might give a better internet utilisation because
> TeamViewer adapts the quality to connection speed, whereas the DVR
probably won't.
>
> So, in the month when I had just finished commissioning the system and
> returned home and probably used the CCTV the most (about 10 days
> visiting) I used a total of 1.2Gb. Now one day accounts for about
> half of that and I cannot remember what I did that day to make it so
> high.
>
> Hope that helps. When I get my next bill I'll have a closer look as I
> know when I've looked at things most recently.
>
> P

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