Need help to setup apex controller to access it from the internet

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Hi there, i'm trying to access this thing from the internet but no luck, I've tried so many things and i'm aboutnto give up here. For the ones that have this controller and are able to access it from the internet, please shed some light here please.

I can access it from my local LAN here with no problem but i just can't set it up to access it from the internet. I know the user's guide explains it with some detail like make sure give the apex device a static IP address by disabling DHCP on the network setupnon the controller. Something the guide explains is that because some internet providers block the port 80 by default, you should map the static apex device's static ip address to a port that nothing else is using.

This is a summary of what i've done so far;

- disable DHCP on the apex device
- make sure the ip assigned to the apez device is static from the router
- port forward to 8181 port mapped to the apex ip

Now from within my lan here i just type; http://apex:8181 and it takes me straight to the default web page in the apex device.

When i want to access with the router's assigned WAN IP address

Http://Xx.xx.xx.Xxx:8181 it should take me to the apex default web page but it does not. It says that the devide is refusing the connection.

Am i missing something obvious here?

Thanks for your help.