Remote connection from ARC (at work) to ARC (at home) works...

You'll have to take my word for it that behind the black mask is my home IP

Hello,

For some reason that I still have to find out (and thanks to you I got that there's something to find out) my current network config doesn't allow me to do it that way. However the fact that I can connect through WAN IP with HW from outside is a sign that I might have had two problems, and one fixed for now, one on my network config and one coming from my ARC installation. I remembered messing up some days ago with some windows services and this could also be the cause of my other pb (JPEG stream error message that we discussed recently). On the other hand I also think it's actually more likely to be another network / router issue since this happens on all my computers. I'll look into once I have the time to do so.

@Alan : at least you know that you can connect with the module we had gotten from Amazon, now.

Thanks for your help, again;

does it take time to connect ?

Not a long time at all, I was surprised at how quickly it connected to be honest.

I'd say it's a network issue, no doubt something to do with the router (it usually is, routers can be a nightmare depending on what it is). With the cameras do you use UPNP or have you manually set up the port forwarding?

Networking can be an absolute nightmare on some hardware. I made a point of changing the router my ISP gave me for something much better (I highly recommend something that can run DD-WRT firmware - Buffalo routers now come with this as standard). That said, it may be due to a VPN, I tend to avoid VPNs when possible

Excellent news about the adapter you found working. I am going to contact Roving Solutions support about mine that is no longer receiving and see if there is any warranty coverage, or if they can look at my config file and see if I somehow turned off UART receive, but at least if that is a dead end, I know what I can do when I am ready to try WiFi again.

Based on this discussion, I uninstalled Hamachi VPN (which I virtually never use anymore anyway), and it appears to have resolved a problem I have been having on my Windows 2003 server where any internet downloads were acting like it is on dial-up speeds even though I have 25 mbs FIOS. Other things besides downloads worked fine. I could even stream decent video over RDP from it.

Alan

@Rich : I use my own port forwarding for the ipcam. I'm gonna first work arround this possibility since changing the router would be frustrating since 1stly it would mean I cannot find what's really wrong while these cams work fine otherwise than with ARC and 2ndly it would be frustrating since it's an expensive a/c 200$ router that I made to myself as a christmas gift, so there's some psychology involved.

@Alan : Have you tried to hard reset it ? I personally did it by hooking it up to an arduino board with ethernet shield and an I/O switch program accessed in browser. I could not hard reset it using logical signal from EZBoard. If my memory is good it worked only while I sent low signal for little more than 1 second to the nload pin DURING BOOT UP and then returned to high signal. But I also remember having to mess up a little bit with it before it kicked in. one Other thing (I need to double check on that but I'm almost sure) : the connection worked only by connecting TXD to TXD and RXD to RXD on the EZBoard...

Elfege

The roving networks board has a hard reset jumper, which I did use which is why I am contacting the vendor. The board is totally dead (totally my fault, so I won't be contacting the vendor.

Alan

@elfege how did you make the first connection to the card in order to set it up? I have tried setting the IP on the computer but could not make any connection.