Hi folks,

We just got upgraded to Ultra VDSL and got one of these units. I have no problems with other devices, including torrent, using UPnP to open ports as necessary. The only problem I am having at the moment is trying to set up port forwarding to my IP Cam, a Foscam unit.

My Foscam is set to have a static IP of 192.168.1.80. I am trying to forward incoming requests on port 88 to port 80 on the camera. However, according to my router there are two devices using 192.168.1.80, on ethport1 and wlan each!

Device name                             IP address           Interface
Unknown-00-12-7b-51-c0-76      192.168.1.80        WLAN
Unknown-00-0d-c5-d0-dc-8c       192.168.1.80        ethport1

The one on WLAN is our camera, but I have no idea what the other one is. I have scanned our LAN repeatedly but no such device was found. In the section where I get to configure the port forwarding (assign a game or app to a local network device) I simply cannot select the second device in the list above. Every time I do it simply switches to the other mystery one! Yes, that's right - it's a dropdown box! When I select the ...c0-76 device in the list the page posts back to the server, and automagically changes its selection to the mysterious ...dc-8c device! It had an option of putting in an IP address too. When I put in 192.168.1.80 it did the automagical switch again! I have no idea why, or if this is indeed why I cannot connect to my camera from external networks. Has anyone had any such issues?

Previous to this I had a simple TP-Link device, before that a couple of LinkSys devices. All of them had incredibly straightforward way of configuring port forwarding, etc. What's with the Technicolor unit? Is this the way of the future?? Most things in there feel somewhat dumbed down.

I have started tearing my hair out already, so any assistance would be greatly appreciated... before I lose too much more hair...

Cheers,
D.

EDIT:
I just figured out the ethport1 connection was somehow cached from when I connected the camera via cable. I restarted the router and now the port is being forwarded to the right interface. Unfortunately I still can't access the camera from external connection. The error now says connection was refused!