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Originally Posted by Psyire
I'm just curious if anybody has had any luck gaining access to their Neptune Apex from outside of their home network with Telus as a provider? I'm particularly interested in people's experience with the Telus DSL Siemens router settings... I can't get a connection no matter what settings I try to change.. (ie. port forwarding/dmz/packet routing/etc)
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If you have a normal home connection there is a good chance your IP address can be rotating, if this happens you will have traffic routing issues while trying to tunnel back into your home.
This can happen if your Telus router has the power cycled, it can acquire a different address; or if the IP range you are on is being shared by another Telus customer, and they are drawing on the bandwidth to much; Telus will send a signal to renew the IP's on your entire block automatically, Telus uses this technique to stop people from using large amounts of torrent and p2p data.
You can get around this by installing a VNC client ( similar to remote desktop ) or if you own a mac with an Apple router, simply turn on the ( back to me ) feature with the airport utility; if you are on a windows based system, you can installed a VNC client that will automatically update your IP configuration on the fly.
This product for Windows is free
https://secure.logmein.com/products/free/ and it will tunnel you to your home computer; from there you can launch a browser and check your Apex.
Another option is to pay Telus for a static IP address, sometimes this is not available to home users, you will have to ask.