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"Allowing ports on Netgear N300 modem/router"

Hi,

Just a quick question.

I need to be able to connect my camera's wifi to my pc.

The camera appears to connect to my LAN (it gets past 'Connecting to network'), but stalls at 'Connecting to computer'.

The network guide says to allow TCP 15740 and UDP 5353 in order for the camera to connect.

Can someone please guide me through this process for my particular router.

Many thanks,

Neil

Hi,

Just a quick question.

I need to be able to connect my camera's wifi to my pc.

The camera appears to connect to my LAN (it gets past 'Connecting to network'), but stalls at 'Connecting to computer'.

The network guide says to allow TCP 15740 and UDP 5353 in order for the camera to connect.

Can someone please guide me through this process for my particular router.

Many thanks,

Neil

Port Forwarding is only required if you're looking for external access to the Camera (over the Internet, from another location), if you're only looking for local access then the problem wouldn't be ports but would likely be elsewhere in your set-up.

Not knowing much about the camera in question and precisely what you're trying to do, it's hard for me to say what the problem would be.

I have a Nikon D4 with a WT-5 wireless transmitter.

I wish to be able to download the images directly to my pc via the Image Transfer wifi option on the camera.

N.

Neilj99 wrote:
I have a Nikon D4 with a WT-5 wireless transmitter.

This was the bit that was missing from your last post ... have you seen this:

Wireless Transmitter Utility 1.3.0 Full Version

:¬)

Yup - got that.

N.

I'd be surprised if you need to set up any port forwarding, it's probably just advising that you to ensure that these ports are not blocked by the firewall in your router.

I've not used the Netgear router that you have in place, however providing that you do not have port forwarding set up for these ports and it's firewall is not filtering LAN to LAN traffic, I can't see that it would cause a problem.

I'd expect that you may just need to run the software on your PC, which I'd expect would cause your PC to listen on those ports, then connect your camera to the network.

Disabled my software firewall and the pc connected.

Now I'm stumped as I don't know what to adjust in my firewall (third party/not Freeola so can't say name).

N.

I wouldn't have thought that there was a problem 'naming' your firewall software.

I've tried a lot of them! AVG and ZoneAlarm will assist you automatically by asking you if you want to allow 'X' when it first tries to connect ... you just confirm the prompt and it's stored for good.

You may just need to add the camera software to the program exceptions list on your firewall software. The vast majority of modern firewalls seem have easy methods for doing this.

It's just a straight wifi connection to the PC.

No software loaded for the connection/automated image download.

N.