Lorex Technology DHU500 SERIES User Manual

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You will need to enable port forwarding on your Router to allow for external communications with 
your DVR. The following ports will need to be forwarded to remotely connect to your DVR:

• DVR PORT: 2000 (or any other port you selected to use during setup)

• WEBSERVER PORT: 80 (or any other port you selected to use during setup)

Computers, DVRs, and other devices inside your network can only communicate directly with 
each other within the internal network. Computers and systems outside your network cannot 
directly communicate with these devices. When a system on the internal network needs to send 
or receive information from a system outside the network (i.e. from the Internet), the information 
is sent to the Router. 

When a computer on the Internet needs to send data to your internal network, it sends this data 
to the external IP address of the Router. The Router then needs to decide where this data is to 
be sent to. This is where setting up Port Forwarding becomes important.

Port Forwarding tells the router which device on the internal network to send the data to. When 
you set up port forwarding on your Router, it takes the data from the external IP address:port 
number and sends that data to an internal IP address:port number (i.e Router External IP 
216.13.154.34:2000 to DVR Internal IP 192.168.0.3:2000).

The instructions found online in the 

will assist you in the port forwarding configurations for a selection of 

different router models.Visit our website at 

 for more details

Computer
Internal IP
192.168.0.2

DVR
Internal IP
192.168.0.150

Router
Internal IP
192.168.0.1

Router
External IP
216.13.154.34