Blue Iris working on Iphone wifi but not 4g LTE

[Hellcat9]

Hi Folks, I'm new to Blue Iris software but it is working amazing. I downloaded the mobile app on my Iphone and it works great with wifi but not on 4G LTE. I have watched every tutorial on youtube, and saw some threads here and tried those suggestions with no luck. My router is a Netgear Nighthawk X9000. No problems signing into there and changed my port to 82 because it alerted me that something was on port 81 which makes sense because that is the port my cameras are going through. Any help would be greatly appreciated been trying for hours without success.

 

[fenderman]

See wiki on securing you network.

 

[SouthernYankee]

BY wifi working do you mean wifi that is external to your home network, Coffee shop, library....

Who is your 4G lte provider ? Some lte providers block traffic.

I strongly recommend setting up a inbound VPN. I believe that the netgear router should support openVPN.

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My general VPN post
There are two types of VPN, do not get them confused.
The type depends on where the traffic conversation (traffic) originates

1) origination: local home network, destination the internet.
This type of VPN purpose to hides your activity from the internet, it is outbound, it normally costs a monthly fee to use. Direction is from your home PC to the internet, going to your bank, google, porn sites,,,, this not what you want. This VPN uses a VPN server that is in the middle of your communications.

2) Origination: the internet world wide web, destination: your home network.
This VPN type is used to provide a secure connection onto your local network, in bound to you local home network, from your office computer, your cell phone in your car, tablet at the coffee shop.. This is what you want, it does not have a monthly fee and is normally completely free. OpenVPN is this type of VPN.

If you home internet provider is a cellular network, then DDNS (dynamic Domain Name System) may not work, the DDNS is needed for most Inbound VPN services (OpenVpn), so OpenVPN may not work for you.

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[Hellcat9]

BY wifi working do you mean wifi that is external to your home network, Coffee shop, library....

Who is your 4G lte provider ? Some lte providers block traffic.

I strongly recommend setting up a inbound VPN. I believe that the netgear router should support openVPN.

==================================================================
My general VPN post
There are two types of VPN, do not get them confused.
The type depends on where the traffic conversation (traffic) originates

1) origination: local home network, destination the internet.
This type of VPN purpose to hides your activity from the internet, it is outbound, it normally costs a monthly fee to use. Direction is from your home PC to the internet, going to your bank, google, porn sites,,,, this not what you want. This VPN uses a VPN server that is in the middle of your communications.

2) Origination: the internet world wide web, destination: your home network.
This VPN type is used to provide a secure connection onto your local network, in bound to you local home network, from your office computer, your cell phone in your car, tablet at the coffee shop.. This is what you want, it does not have a monthly fee and is normally completely free. OpenVPN is this type of VPN.

If you home internet provider is a cellular network, then DDNS (dynamic Domain Name System) may not work, the DDNS is needed for most Inbound VPN services (OpenVpn), so OpenVPN may not work for you.

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Hi thank you for the reply, My 4g cel provider on my phone is ATT, my home internet provider is comcast. The BI APP works on my phone only with wifi, but when I turn wifi off the phone loses any signal. Tried all day to figure this one out. It says I'm online but first time forwarding ports and that might not have worked. Went through the BI Wizard a few times but failed to connect on one of the final steps.

 

[fenderman]

Hi thank you for the reply, My 4g cel provider on my phone is ATT, my home internet provider is comcast. The BI APP works on my phone only with wifi, but when I turn wifi off the phone loses any signal. Tried all day to figure this one out. It says I'm online but first time forwarding ports and that might not have worked. Went through the BI Wizard a few times but failed to connect on one of the final steps.

Your router is doing its job.

 

[wittaj]

AT&T is known to block port 443. You have to change it.

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[Hellcat9]

AT&T is known to block port 443. You have to change it.

OpenVPN connection to port 443 is being dropped by network. Is this a policy? | AT&T Community Forums

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Ok thank you I will look into that tomorrow. Not sure what it's set at will check.