APEX Help

Now Andy... I showed you how to do that. Put in your actual home IP address/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default//emoticons/sad.gifport that we used).
Ex; 17.345.2.34:9476

 

Don't make me come over there again... lol

 

And that frowning face Is supposed to be a colon...

 

Use the external or the IP address of your router and then the port number. Make sure you router is setup to pass that port number as well. YOu may have to disable a multicast feature depending on what type of router you have. I can tell you exactly what it is if you have a linksys/Cisco.

 

Set up a Dyndns.org account and use that.

--AJ

 

You can get one free hostname from dyndns.org by doing the DynDNS Pro Free Trial:   "http://dyn.com/dns/dyndns-pro-free-trial/"



If you remove your billing information before the trial period is over, then you will not be billed AND you will keep your hostname.

 

This is clearly a question for RC.

Russ should take care of you. That dood is amazing. He basically set up my apex for me.


To your question though....I use mediacom and they basically NEVER change the ip they give you, even though it is technically dynamic. Do you use mediacom by chance?

 

Could be your port isn't open, sometimes routers a a little finicky when it comes to forwarding ports.

To see if your port is truly open use: http://www.canyouseeme.org/ and enter the port you are forwarding for the device.

That would be a good place to start.

 

Dyndns and port forwarding are totally different. Dyndns maps your public IP to a public DNS name. Port forwarding allows you to map your ports from your public IP to an internal host. Port mapping (forwarding) is required; but getting a public DNS hostname is a good thing too. Also, most newer routers have areas in the config where you can put in your account information for dyndns. Then you don't have to remember it.

--AJ

 

BTW, what router are you using? If it's Tomato compatible (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato), I highly recommend flashing your router with that firmware. User friendly, full functioned, stable and IMO, better than DD-WRT.

--AJ

 

Ill just come over tomorrow andy. It was working when I did it before. dont worry little buddy!

 

Yes, public IP = external IP.
--AJ

 

+1 on dydns. Once I set it up with external ip, and fwrded port and input account info under dns section of the router setup all was good.

 

May want to check your apex firmware make sure your running something more recent if it is really old, also you can backup all your settings when you are done.Then all you have to do is reload that file and names, programming, outlets, everything will come back its pretty easy.