Question I upgraded to fiber from DSL and now my security camera DVR can't be viewed on internet ?

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They installed my new fiber internet and now one of my security camera DVR's can't be viewed over the internet. I can see it locally over the router wifi, but not on a cell phone app. I have 2 security DVR's and one works still and one doesn't. It's as if a firewall is blocking it, but I tried turning off the router firewall completely and still the DVR doesn't broadcast to the internet. My internet tech support is worthless even though it's their equipment. Everything worked fine until I went from DSL to fiber, using the same router.
 
What is kinda scary is you have no idea how the DVR was being accessed from the internet on your previous router. How do you know it is secure and nobody else can get access?

Most times there is no access to anything inside your house from the internet. To make it work you must setup port forwarding rules in your router. This is something that you would have remembered configuring.

If you have some other DVR system that somehow just magically allows access that is likely some proprietary setup and you would be best contacting the company that makes those systems.
 
They installed my new fiber internet and now one of my security camera DVR's can't be viewed over the internet. I can see it locally over the router wifi, but not on a cell phone app. I have 2 security DVR's and one works still and one doesn't. It's as if a firewall is blocking it, but I tried turning off the router firewall completely and still the DVR doesn't broadcast to the internet. My internet tech support is worthless even though it's their equipment. Everything worked fine until I went from DSL to fiber, using the same router.
They installed my new fiber internet and now one of my security camera DVR's can't be viewed over the internet. I can see it locally over the router wifi, but not on a cell phone app. I have 2 security DVR's and one works still and one doesn't. It's as if a firewall is blocking it, but I tried turning off the router firewall completely and still the DVR doesn't broadcast to the internet. My internet tech support is worthless even though it's their equipment. Everything worked fine until I went from DSL to fiber, using the same router.
The DVR manufacture figured it out. I am still not sure why but I had to change some settings in the DVR even though it was the same router. Going from DSL to fiber I guess required some different DVR settings. I am sorry to have trouble the Tom's community but I had been trying for a week to figure it out and was almost out of options, but I knew someone here could figure it out for me if the DVR company hadn't. I had to change the DNS preferred server to 8.8.8.8 in the DVR and then everything worked right.