Install The Device Behind A Nat Router - Honeywell 720P User Manual

Install the Device behind a NAT Router

Click the targeted Device. Then Internet Explorer will connect to this Network Camera
automatically.
Once installed, the device is accessible on your LAN. To access the device from the Internet
you must configure your broadband router to allow incoming data traffic to the device. If the
device is installed on the LAN with a router, then it may get a dynamic IP address from the
DHCP server. However, if the device wants to be accessed from the WAN, its IP address
needs to be setup as fixed IP, also the port forwarding or Virtual Server function of router
needs to be setup.
However, if your NAT router supports UPnP feature, it can be very easy to achieve NAT
traversal automatically. To do this, enable the NAT-traversal feature, which will attempt to
automatically configure the router to allow access to the camera.
Installing the device with an UPnP router on your network is an easy 3–step procedure:
1. Enable UPnP option of your NAT router
To use UPnP IGD function (NAT traversal), you need to make sure the UPnP function is
enabled in your router. Most new home routers should support this function. Some of routers
are default enable and others are not. Please check user's manual of your NAT router for
detail.
2. Enable UPnP NAT traversal option of the Network Camera
Refer to Setting Network
option is default enabled.
UPnP page for detail NAT traversal setting. Note that this
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