Forum Discussion
Public IP that routes to your 5g internet device
I've tried calling customer/technical support (got nowhere) and I went to the t-mobile brick and mortar up the street, with zero resolution. Neither could provide me with an email/phone number for an it department, so unfortunately I'll be posting this here. So, I found a public ip address that sent me directly to my 5g gateway device's information that contained the serial number, UI version, firmware version, run time, and my internet connection status via HTTP. That's correct, not a HTTPS address, HTTP. I'm not a professional but it concerns me that there's a way to access peoples 5g gateway devices which I'm sure someone more intelligent than myself could use to exploit the device...which my internet traffic flows through...and has no firewall… What's the solution for this?
From the portion of information provided it simply looks that you are under the 192.168.12.1/home url.That is not a public ip address that lets anyone simply have access to your router information,Its used only from devices within the network to access the cut down admin portal of the router.On a secondary note the firmware your 5g home is using does not allow anyone including your self to do anything to your router as T-mobile started shipping certain routers with firmware forcing users to either use a third party non tmobile application to do anything via their Computer using api’s.T-mobile has gone to using their T-mobile Internet application on your ios or android device for making simple changes to your router.
From the portion of information provided it simply looks that you are under the 192.168.12.1/home url.That is not a public ip address that lets anyone simply have access to your router information,Its used only from devices within the network to access the cut down admin portal of the router.On a secondary note the firmware your 5g home is using does not allow anyone including your self to do anything to your router as T-mobile started shipping certain routers with firmware forcing users to either use a third party non tmobile application to do anything via their Computer using api’s.T-mobile has gone to using their T-mobile Internet application on your ios or android device for making simple changes to your router.
The network gateway is using NAT to hide the public IP from your home internet
use whatsmyip.org to see your public IP
FYI: For everyone looking for advice on this subject. After speaking to multiple technicians today, opening new business account and going through 19 phone transfers, finally got a hole of an amazing representative from TN. You must have a business account and get a Inseego Wavemaker 5G indoor cellular router FX3100 that T-Mobile will give you to receive a static IP Address officially from them. They charge you an extra $3 a month for the static IP Address, which is very comparable. Thank you so much T-Mobile for finally helping me out after two days of phone calls, and brick and mortar store visits.
