Spectrum Port Forwarding

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jwadsley

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Anyone have any luck forwarding ports with spectrum internet and their own router?

I have a new Asus router with Spectrum Phone / Internet modem and even thought port shows as open on the ASUS router, I'm unable to get to my camera or see that the port is open in a port forward online checker...

None of the other ISP's where I have my own router do this...
 
Assuming they operate the same in all regions, it should be possible.

Confirm that your router's WAN address is publicly routable. The easiest way to do this is to look in your router to see what its WAN address is, and see if that matches what third-party services think your address is. what is my ip - Google Search
 
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bp2008 said:
Assuming they operate the same in all regions, it should be possible.

Confirm that your router's WAN address is publicly routable. The easiest way to do this is to look in your router to see what its WAN address is, and see if that matches what third-party services think your address is. what is my ip - Google Search
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That is the strange thing. The WAN IP Address is 192.168.0.2 but the what is my ip is giving me a 174.99 type address.

Not sure what to change in the WAN settings though and dont' want to knock it offline as I'm remote
 
Attached are the public IP Address that I get when I go to whatismyip.com and then the Router settings. Its set to Automatic IP Address, and I think that might be my problem...
 

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jwadsley said:
Anyone have any luck forwarding ports with spectrum internet and their own router?

I have a new Asus router with Spectrum Phone / Internet modem and even thought port shows as open on the ASUS router, I'm unable to get to my camera or see that the port is open in a port forward online checker...

None of the other ISP's where I have my own router do this...
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fwiw:

Port Forwarding is not recommended, VPN is recommended to access the cameras.

Note: You should be easily able to run a VPN server on the ASUS router.

Please see the wiki for the VPN notes.
 
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Since you are getting a private IP as a WAN IP, it confirms you have not put your Spectrum gateway into bypass mode/gateway mode or whatever they call it. Do that, and you'll be set. Leave the IP set to Auto

Otherwise, you will have to port forward twice. Once in the Spectrum Gateway, and then again on your own router

For what its worth, I'd take the advice above and not do it anyway. But I'd for sure put that into gateway mode anyway so you don't do double NAT
 
mat200 said:
fwiw:

Port Forwarding is not recommended, VPN is recommended to access the cameras.

Note: You should be easily able to run a VPN server on the ASUS router.

Please see the wiki for the VPN notes.
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Looked at the wiki and the VPN on Asus, pretty complicated and never got it to work. I"ll stick with port forwarding..
 
IReallyLikePizza2 said:
Since you are getting a private IP as a WAN IP, it confirms you have not put your Spectrum gateway into bypass mode/gateway mode or whatever they call it. Do that, and you'll be set. Leave the IP set to Auto

Otherwise, you will have to port forward twice. Once in the Spectrum Gateway, and then again on your own router

For what its worth, I'd take the advice above and not do it anyway. But I'd for sure put that into gateway mode anyway so you don't do double NAT
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I don't think I have a gateway though. No other ports except the LAN and the Coax and phone lines....
 
Whatever the Spectrum box is called, gateway, modem, router etc, its for sure handling NAT right now

You need to log into it (Almost certainty 192.168.0.1 based on your last post) and change those settings
 
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How do I tell on the Asus router what my WAN IP is? I don't see it obvious anywhere like I do in netgear devices...
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You don't. Its not communicating with the outside world right now. 99.9% chance you have a dynamic IP meaning you will never need to input your external IP into any of your own network equipment, its all handled via DHCP

Incoming traffic right now is being handled entirely by your Spectrum gateway, you need to put it in bypass so it goes directly to your ASUS router
 
Find the model of the Spectrum device and then post it here, as well as searching "XXXXX Bridge mode" or "XXXXX passthrough"

I'd be very surprised if you couldn't do it yourself without getting them to intervene with a login etc
 
Here is what I got when I go there.
Does not look like a router to me at all, just a cable modem

admin / blank admin/admin admin/password did not work to login
 

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Whats the model of the device?

Check the device, there could be a password listed on it physically. There often is with things like this
 
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