
Purchasing a networking support session for remote support allows our knowledgable technicians to set up port forwarding for you. While P2P makes things simpler there are potential privacy and security risks. P2P or Port Forwarding? When you use P2P networking such as scanning a QR code in to your mobile app to connect to your DVR, you are relying on a cloud server that's being shared by several customers. However, since P2P connectivity can be sluggish, we recommend the user setup port forwarding on their router's firewall to allow quick and direct connections to the camera system.

Port forwarding is not necessary if you want to view the security camera system from the local network only, or if you would like to use the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) method to connect to your system from the internet.

IP CAMERA VIEWER RECORDER HOW TO
If you haven't here's how to connect your security cameras to the internet. You have connected the NVR to the internet by assigning an IP address on the NVR that matches the network scheme of your network.Your phone or tablet is connected via WiFi to the same network as the NVR.You see blinking lights on the back of the network port of the NVR.

