Yes.
The ip address you are using (192.168.xx.xx) is a private ip network intranet address. It is ONLY valid within your network. Intranet addresses are assigned by your router.
If you are on another network,. that is a separate and distinct private intranet network, with IP addresses assigned by the Other router.
If you are using a phone hotspot; your phone actually is acting as a router, assigning IP addresses within the phones own private intranet.
If you want to connect from one network to a device on another private network, you have to connect through the router, using the routers WAN (wide area network) internet address. This WAN address is assigned by your ISP.
There are a number of ways you can find your WAN address of your home router.
As you might expect, knowing the WAN address for your home router is insufficient. You need to tell the router exactly where on the network you are trying to connect. This is where ports come into play.
You will have an external port (This is where your Router listens to internet traffic) and an internal port (this is where your NAS listens to intranet traffic) In between, in your router, you will have a “Port Forwarding table”.
Let’s say your home router has a WAN address of 12.34.56.78
Let’s say your NAS is sitting on IP address 192.168.0.101.
Let’s say you want to connect through external port 2022 (you could use 22)
Let’s say the NAS is listening for SSH traffic on port 22 (This is the default).
If you are in Bangladesh, or Japan, or Wisconsin; you would use you SSH program to dial up “12.34.56.78:2022”. If your NAS is set up to listen for SSH; it should connect.
NOTE: You may have to configure an Entry in the Routers port forwarding table to make this work.
The port forwarding table will need three bits of information:
*External port. (Where the Router should listen to incoming traffic) (in this case 2022)
*Internal IP (What device on your network the traffic heading towards) (in this case 192.168.0.101)
*internal port (What port on your device the device will be expecting traffic)(in this case 22)
Port forwarding tables really come into play if you have two NAS devices on the network, both expecting traffic on port 22.
NOTE: I think you can appreciate the risks here - - → Having open ports on your router is a security vulnerability. You should actually consider looking into BLOCKING internet traffic to your NAS at the router level (of course, the fancy but barely functional WD MyCloud features would also be blocked if you do this)
