Cannot access my router's public IP

[Guest]

Hi,

I'm working on a datalogger project and I'm trying to have it operate on its own LAN which I can access from the internet. My datalogger is all hooked up to my Cradlepoint IBR600LE router, which has been assigned a static public IP of <<removed by moderator>> from Verizon (confirmed by whatsmyip and the router dashboard).

I have no problems accessing my datalogger from inside the LAN but I run into trouble trying to ping my router from other networks. I've tried from multiple networks and I just get request timeouts. My router is connected to the internet over Verizon's 4G LTE (I'm writing this from that network), so I don't really have any idea why this is happening.

Thanks for reading.

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[COLGeek]

Check your router to ensure that external access (sometimes called remote access) is not disabled. Also, you may have to access via a particular port. That can be configured in many routers as well.

Last, some routers have ping disabled to help prevent DDOS/DOS attacks. Check that as well.