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TCP/IP Ports using Tooway

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Mar 25^th, 2010 at 8:32am

I just installed a Tooway system in Ireland (Viasat Surfbeam SM1101). I have a DVR that can connect to the internet and provide video from onsite cameras however, I cannot seem to get this to work with Tooway. The DVR set-up has a port setting that defaults to Port 80 (but I can change this). Does anyone know if Tooway blocks all or any ports or what ports could successfully be used with Tooway?? This is fairly urgent as I leave Ireland tomorrow.

Thanks

Mar 25^th, 2010 at 10:55am

The only guaranteed protocols are pop, smtp, http etc. see GOS.

All other have low priority but none are blocked as far we know. Ingoing connections to the modem are not allowed i.e. remote access.

Be aware, video streaming use a lot of bandwidth !

Mar 25^th, 2010 at 5:36pm

If you want to access pictures from a camera I suggest you program the camera to take a photo, compress the image as much as possible and then upload it to a server somewhere. Uploading one medium resolution 100k bytes image file every 10 minutes would be reasonable. Try not to exceed an average upload bit rate of about 2 kbit/s.

Then from elsewhere on the internet access the server to download the images.

Best regards, Eric.

Mar 25^th, 2010 at 6:55pm

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