How to see your camera:
- if your cameras are connected to the second or third router in the chain;
- when the Internet is distributed by a neighbor, and you connected the cameras to your router and they are not visible from the Internet!
- if your ISP does not provide an honest external IP address, or requires money for providing a static address.
We have a unique solution for all these cases, together and separately.
One small device that is placed in your local network in front of the cameras will help you solve everything!
- What is this device? This is a Mikrotik router!
- How it works? An IPSec tunnel is configured in the router!
- And what does it give? Your cameras are connected to the cloud through the tunnel, bypassing all the obstacles of the chain of routers that placed before yours!
- Is such a connection safe? IPSec tunnel transfers encrypted traffic from your cameras straight to the cloud!
- How many cameras can be connected to a Mikrotik router? To the cheapest one – up to 6 cameras with a resolution of up to 2 Megapixels (FullHD) to several dozen – more expensive ones!
How we implemented it for Vladimir from Dnepropetrovsk region. (village Kurpatovka)
- We configured the router, taking into account the required number of IP addresses for its cameras, which they will receive via DHCP from our router. And they sent it to Vladimir.
- Vladimir connected the Mikrotik router to his router, and the cameras to Mikrotik via a PoE switch.
- Cameras received new IP addresses from Mikrotik.
- When adding cameras to his Personal account in the cloud, Vladimir indicated the IP addresses of the cameras received from Mikrotik.
With this method of connection, no port forwarding is needed, no static external address is needed. The standard camera ports 554 and 80 are used.
