Port forwarding/Router help?

[Maureen Haley]

Hey, Makers,

I'm looking for a little help/advice on port-forwarding.  Here's the situation:  after over a year of trying to configure Motion software with my raspberry pi using these instructions, http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/665518/Raspberry-Pi-as-low-cost-HD-surveillance-camera,  I found an article discussing MotionPie, https://github.com/ccrisan/motionPie, which is a program that essentially includes Motion on a Pi boot disc.  So, finally,  I also have the wifi dongle and have assembled the computer and camera in the fake CCTV shell so it works as a surveillance camera.  VERY COOL!

So, I've been trying to forward a port on my router so that I can access the stream from outside of my home network.

Today, I talked with Earthlink support who walked me through accessing the modem to either forward a port on the ELNK modem or, what I will probably do is put the Earthlink modem in bridging mode and open a port on my router.

Now, I take my router with me when I travel so that I can set up wireless access and/or use my roku with the hotel or apartment internet.  

So, am thinking about getting new router.  Any suggestions?   I could get a new, super fine, VPN included router which is pricey but my router is dated so it wouldn't be that bad of an investment.  Or, I could get a cheapy one since I'm really only planning on setting it up to handle the wifi stream from the surveillance camera when I am away from home.   Any thoughts?  

Thanks.

Maureen

[Sam Lysinger]

Get the cheapie router.  Netgear and Linksys hold up better than the other brands.

 

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[Russell Fair]

I second sam's thoughts about Linksys and Netgear. I installed hundreds of wifi networks when I was a twentysomething working at Geek Squad. Those brands tend to be the most stable and are widely supported. Although Asus wasn't making routers at the time, they also are producing some solid routers now. 

Two questions to consider:

1 - how far do you need the signal to travel from the router to the pi? if it is more than a room or two away and you want a half way decent viewing experience you might want to invest in a more performant router, specifically a "dual band" 

2 - Which type of wifi signal is the dongle? If it is a "G" dongle then buying an "N" router won't give you anything extra. 

3 - have you considered a hard wire? when transferring video, every bit of bandwidth helps. Just a thought.

[matt Cassidy]

Maureen,

 

Asking what router to buy is like asking someone what car to buy; it depends on what you want to use it for. If your current router meets all your needs at your home buying a new one might not be necessary. To me it sounds like you are thinking about a purchase because you want to be able to have a router at home to service your pi and also have something that you travel with to split your hotel wifi to multiple devices. If your current router is meeting your needs (and supports wireless N) I recommend you keep it at home and buy a small travel router in the $30-40 range. If your home router is missing features you want (i.e. VPN, VLAN, advanced port forwarding, firewall), check to see if your router is supported by one of the open source router firmware builds. Personally I don’t run a router unless it can utilize dd-wrt (http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index). DD-WRT can take a router with limited functionality and add quite a bit of functionality.