Connecting a DVR box to the internet and was wondering about testing it instantly.

If I connect to my home machine via remote desktop and fire up the dvr software, should I be able to view the cameras on my home desktop even though I'm on line at this end?

I hope I'm explaining this OK.

Bob

you need to set the IPs up first

there is a thread on this subject last year. if you google port forwarding that should give you some good advice.

Connecting a DVR box to the internet and was wondering about testing it instantly.

If I connect to my home machine via remote desktop and fire up the dvr software, should I be able to view the cameras on my home desktop even though I'm on line at this end?

I hope I'm explaining this OK.

Bob

It should work fine (although it is not a very save way of doing it). When you connect to your home machine via remote desktop and then start the DVR software the router will handle the connection automatically from your DVR to your home machine and further to where you are.

But you cannot connect directly to your DVR that easily. For example if you have the DVR software on a laptop and try to connect to the DVR at home from a hotel room it will not work.

Remote desktop has the disadvantage that it is slower than directly connecting to the DVR. Advantage is that you can access other stuff as well on your home PC.

But you cannot connect directly to your DVR that easily. For example if you have the DVR software on a laptop and try to connect to the DVR at home from a hotel room it will not work.

Why can't you connect to the dvr from a hotel room connection? Assuming like most dvr's no port forwarding is needed at the viewing end and the hotel internet connection dosen't have any nessaery ports closed.

Connecting a DVR box to the internet and was wondering about testing it instantly.

If I connect to my home machine via remote desktop and fire up the dvr software, should I be able to view the cameras on my home desktop even though I'm on line at this end?

I hope I'm explaining this OK.

Bob

When you've completed the dvr setup at home and programmed any portforwarding needed the remote desktop should work fine albeit a bit slow. I think the remote desktop should work just the same as if you were sat at your pc at home. It's still only one client connected to the dvr at a time ( some dvr's only allow one client connection at a time).

remote software used to acces anpother pc is very slow, add that to the cumbersome dvr software i think this is not a good way to go forward.

you would be better installing the software on your 'travelling' pc and et a fixed ip

regs

alan

remote software used to acces anpother pc is very slow

Not necessarily, it can be very effective and quite quick.

HOWEVER in this case I think the chances are that it will give very poor results as the way that remote access software works is not really designed to deal with moving images. It's built to deal with things that are structured and that it has some understanding of, e.g. windows, mouse pointers, menus, text etc. so that it can transmit changes quickly and efficiently to the remote.

I wouldn't be doing this more than once. The dvr box is in the office and the software is on my pc at home.

I thought it might be a way of seeing if it's working remotely without going home . . . . .

I wouldn't be doing this more than once. .

Worth a try then.