User's Manual

netAqua

USER MANUAL Roslen Eco-Networking Products

The last thing to do is to type-in the Internal IP Address information. This is the IP address of the

netAQUA on your home network. It can be read from the LCD, on the Status tab of the Browser

Interface, or using the netFINDER application. Unfortunately, unless you have a few devices connected

to your home network and don’t turn them or the router off, the IP Address assigned by the router to the

netAQUA is likely to change. So whatever you type-in for the Internal IP Address will most likely expire

within a few hours or days and you will have to update the address. For this reason, it’s best to select a

static address for your netAQUA, so that it is the same all the time. Details of how to set-up a static

address for the netAQUA are provided in Section 2.6.3 below.

Figure 20: Netgear WNR3500L Port Forwarding Set-up Example

Once you click the Apply button, Port Forwarding for the netAQUA will be set-up in your router. That’s all

that needs to happen with this function.

Now, you need to know the external address of your router. This can be checked in one of two ways:

• Your router will have a tab, or a page, or a section of it’s configuration interface called Router

Status, or something similar. You can find the external address there, labeled as Internet Port IP

Address, or something similar.

• You can open your browser and go to a website that will identify your external address. One

such service is

www.whatismyip.com, and there are others.

When you know the external address of your router, you have everything that you’ll need to access the

netAQUA from the internet… with one caveat. That is, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) can change

the external address assigned to your router at anytime, and will likely do that if you power down your

router and power it back up again. This is why you need a DDNS service, which is described in Section

2.6.4 below. Or… you don’t have to worry about your ISP changing the external address of your router if

you purchased the option to maintain a fixed external address. If you’re lucky enough to have a fixed

address, then that’s all you need; no DDNS is required.

If you have a fixed external address for your router, or you just wish to try remote access before the ISP

changes the external address, you can type the external address plus :external port that you configured

for Port Forwarding in any internet-connected device outside of your home, and you’ll connect to the

Browser Interface. An example of that address is, using our example above

107.144.172.56:4567

Or, for some browsers, you might need to type:

http://107.144.172.56:4567