Hi Ricardo, yes, I have got it working, but it required a lot of delving in my wireless router. IMHO, problems accessing Rovios are nearly always due to your router's firewall and security settings and not with the Rovio, nor your ISP for that matter. Also, the security certificate for the Rovio's ActiveX extension has expired, meaning it can be very difficult to get IE to accept it (you could try turning all IE's security settings off strictly only for the installation, but even then it may not work) - so other browsers are probably a better bet, even though you have no sound.

The thread we're on now is an article one - there is a longer discussion thread elsewhere where I put all the different changes etc I made. Please have a look at:
http://www.robocommunity.com/forum/thread/15698/Setting-Up-Rovio-For-External...

I can only suggest delving into your own router and seeing if you can find the same settings (or similarly named ones) and changing those!

Good luck and tell me how you get on!

Oliver

hello, i am trying to get a rovio connection over the internet. checked the forums and saw something about the linksys wrt54gl router. about a year ago it was posted (in this forum) that this router doesn't support the forwarding cause I can't fill in a internet and externet port. Anyway, I also read about the softwareinstaller that 2.3 also fixed the linksys problem. am I still screwed and is an other router the only solution or is there a chance to get it fized.. i opened the 80 port, enabled forwarding but it is still giving an http status 403 error.... pleeease help me

in home it works fine btw

Pep

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Hi,

I bought the rovio couple of days ago...
When setting in up in my home, using the software it works.... even the going home :)))
but when following the NICE explained step by step guide from above it fails somewhere..

I've followed every step as it should, but for some reason I'm unable to connect to it trought the internet and even the local ip (inside my network) is failing now.. Already tried several times.. Reinstalling the soft... but no luck
Any idea why this happens ?

Oliver de Peyer said: Hi Webwakko, Perhaps your router is set up for DHCP and it got reset somehow? That would mean it might now have assigned a different IP to the Rovio internally. It probably also changed your external IP. You can probably delve into the router at 192.168.1.1 and set a static IP for the Rovio internally. With any luck, there will be a setting for your router to upload it's current external IP to some external service - in my router's case it was www.dyndns.org. You can set up www.dyndns.org to give you the domain name of your choice... webwakkorovio.com or whatever! I think the Rovio can also do this itself? But I'm not too sure how that page of the setup works. I pay to see my www.dyndns.org log and I can see both the router and, occasionally, the Rovio itself updating the external IP address as it changes. If all else fails, turn the Rovio off, and then on again. I think sometimes it gets stuck on the wrong IP address. For instance, if I have to reset my router manually, the Rovio needs to be cycled as well. Philip, sorry to reply so late - everything that I posted WAS on a Mac. It is really computer-independent - it is all down to your router, and most routers can be accessed at 192.168.1.1. Change router settings at your peril! :-) All the routers have different setup pages and options... I can only say what I needed to do to defeat mine and get route from my Rovio to the outside world...

The configuration for my modem / router has to be done online trough my provider.. 

I'm able to forward ports and it's indeed DHCP...  but I already fixed the IP for my Rovio, like all my other hardware connecting on my wireless inhouse...

I installed the software for the Rovio and used the Rovio Finder.. but it does not detect my Rovio... So my guess is that it is configured by default... I read that the Rovio has some default settings.. like 192.186.10.X my range is 192.168.0.X.... could this be the problem ?

I also configurered a DynDNS address, but this won't work if the Rovio can't even be accessed from inside the network..  :(

UPDATE : I restarted the Rovio and It's running inhouse again.. now I'm trying to get the Outhouse working trough http://wakkorovio.dyndns.tv, no luck so far...

ANOTHER UPDATE : I get a message, after setting up the DYNDNS info :

domain's IP address failed to update or failed to get IP address 

AND ANOTHER UPDATE: 

this is what the info for the Rovio says :

"Forward 2 ports on your internet router to ports 80 and 554 on your Rovio (if UPnP is enabled on your router this can be done automatically)"

But the problem is that my provider does not allow to open ports below 1023 ... maybe that's the problem ???

EUREKA ! FINAL UPDATE :

I managed to get access trough the internet, I just had to setup a DMZ address pointing to the fixed IP from the Rovio and VOILA !

Hi Peter,

Thank you for your sharing...

I am a total newbie in port forwarding and using DNS...

From your thread, I noticed that you mentioned this :

Fortunately, there's a service called DynDNS that basically, will allow you to get a custom URL that you can type in to your browser in order to access your Rovio over the Web. Here's how!

First, go to DynDNS.com and set up an account. They provide a range of services, but the service you need is called DDNS - or Dynamic DNS. DynDNS has been providing this service for free for nearly 10 years. What a deal!

When I go to the URL : DynDNS.com, I noticed isn't any FREE service anymore.

May I ask where can I get a free service?

Thanks all for moment and really appreciate all the help I can get. I will reply to this thread once I started following the step-by-step of accessing Rovio from the anywhere in the world using any internet connection.

Thanks.

Eddy