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For security reasons you may not get a lot of help here on this topic. Most likely you will be strongly suggested to not port forward and go with a VPN solution. You need to forward two sets of ports. One is for port 80 if you want to watch remotely on a web browser or port 8000 if ivms. I...

Great question. Depends on your needs, budget and what you plan to do. If you got a decent spare computer that can support a large surveillance hard drive you could look at running NAS software such as Nas4free. Hikvision cameras can write directly to it. Other option is buying an NVR and...

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Here is the settings for my zfs dataset for my 2232 camera. I then have a cifs share setup for the dataset which the camera connects to. Camera sees it as 400gb of storage and formats it. Been running since December 2015 if not earlier. One thing I was wrong.. my 2332 is running 5.1.0 firmware...

I am using nas4free with a single 3 TB drive. Zfs filesystem so I can create multiple shares. Each camera has a single share and some are 400 GB each. Even old 2232 with 5.2 firmware supports 400 GB share. Without single shares that support quota you won't be able to use a single drive unless...

There are a few options 1) Use Internet Explorer. While an acceptable option Microsoft is slow to patch bugs. Days of using IE should only be when your work doesn't allow you to use other browsers. 2) Use Firefox 52 ESR. This option is supported until March 2018. This "52 ESR version" will...

Yes OpenVPN would be a good solution. Depending how you implemented OpenVPN it can be moderate or difficult. Check if your router supports it out of the box. If not check if you router can run firmware like did-wrt with vpn support. Another option and the option I use is a raspberry pi running...