Home Internet Port Forwarding working in 2021?

Donutpanda wrote:

What's the deal here I can't PORT FORWARD?  Has this been fixed I can't find PORT FORWARDING on my router, please advise!!

Yesterday I called T-Mobile to inform them I'll be canceling their service because port forwarding is not available. Long story short they acknowledged that they can't do port forwarding and gave me instructions to cancel the service and return the trash can.

They called back later and said that they are just now pushing out a firmware update that will allow port forwarding!

He said to leave the unit on for the next 12-24 hours and I should see port forwarding available in the configuration options.

I checked 12 hrs later and there was no firmware update. Will check again later and let you all know.

THIS IS A MAJOR PAIN IN THE … i switched over to tmobile wifi, and it killed my xbox games on my pc.

so…. i have been trying everything i can to resolve it.  now will try the ethernet cable.  if that does not work i will have to say goodbye to TMOBILE

and the thing is, THEY KNOW this issue exists.  the engineers knew it when they rushed it to market.  and the rep’s you sit on the phone w// for hours are clueless to resolve it.    and when the rep says they will follow up …. don’t hold your breath

   thanks Tmobile!   your the best at killing my gaming 

so very annoyed

Deal breaker. I switched not knowing they would send a router instead of just a modem. Doesn't work for my needs. By T-Mobile Internet.

UPDATE to prev reply: Configured a script to access and monitor the network / cell tower connectivity and working on the optimization / fall over logic.

Abstracting the APN's to available devices offered TM-End-Users and segmenting the tower mapping at TM is the second step, I will auto configure a suitable automation for router, ip, net, sub … etc … in php next, this will provide the base QA testing I will preform on GCP to 'ping' alternate cell towers, by alternating alias (apn/vpn/multi...etc) configurations, isolated to different regions in US (to start). If I can isolate and debug those issues in the logic of the back-end, I'll construct a GUI - built mobile first of course, to access the beta and I can do a live run - I'll continue to update devOp's as I move forward.

For those interested in that beta - please let me know, don’t release your personal information here, I will link an open repo where you can help me continue through-out the process along with appropriate documentation and ways to post issues and offer suggestions.

The overall aim is to offer a optional software that can be individually configured, modified, or at a novice level - utilized to auto-detect the appropriate network configuration and assignment for the issues facing the Nok/Kdv Gateway's and there Network connections to multiple Bans' on a variety of devices. Done so, in a simple and predictable manner based on the users device - or overridden by custom instruction. Third, by monitoring the tower signals - provide fall over to the best band for the users needs and without mis-configuring that connectivity, periodically looking to elevate or change to improve, unless overridden.

Most importantly- Security - Will at first require logs be native to the device until proper encryption and protocols can be established - this will be accessible and customizable if you require it to do so by stable, bare in mind - I do not plan on creating alternatives or documenting the process of how to do so, until considering a "stable" release. So please, if you would like to beta test - for now, keep this in mind, until further developments are made - the standard encryption/security provided - will be the only one of focus of me or those on the build team - when and if we start testing a published software to the public. Further more - any Beta or Nightly application should be considered 'unstable' no matter who or what it is referring to - if you find that undesirable please await a more developed version before asking questions about the build to those working on it.

Lastly, for anyone not familiar with open-source software, most if not all of us do this kind of thing for free, maintain at our own cost, and have lives - I hope it helps you, but will not guarantee the modification will be ideal for every person using TM - they have the massive infrastructure … I’m a nerd from NJ … maintainers will be nice nerds from (somewhere) … please, ask / complain respectfully, we will do our best to provide a solution.

KS

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I needed to access a very basic web server and a DVR at my business. With my current provider was very slow and unreliable so bought this home internet gateway. I setup a ddwrt router behind the gateway with Purevpn service and got an outside ip address to the router. The web server port was set at 80 and received the requests from the remote pc browser but getting packets back to the browser fails as they are not in sequence and results in dropped packets. I tested this as I connected the same setup to my home internet and was able to access the web page from my phone. Conclusion is the t-mobile service either drops packets or forwards the in wrong sequence.

T-Mobile…

We need a solution.  Even a reverse proxy would be a great start.  I need to get off of this Spectrum garbage.

Gracias

What's the deal here I can't PORT FORWARD?  Has this been fixed I can't find PORT FORWARDING on my router, please advise!!

Cameraman wrote:

Regarding the lack of port forwarding, I put the camera images onto an Android tablet that is also running "Anydesk".  When away from home, using my cell phone that also has the 'Anydesk' ap, I can connect to the tablet computer at home and see the camera images. It's slower than I like, but it works.  However, I also have internet switches in the house, as well as a Wifi garage door opener, and a Wifi controlled AC unit and this will be hard to do with the same approach.  If Anydesk can punch through the T-Mobile network, a VPN can also, I'm assuming. Will try this next. So much time has been blown on this... I'll probably return the unit.

I ditched TMHI because of this issue. However, I may in fact sign up for it again because I'm running Zero Tier One, which allows the same type of tunneling as Anydesk, but ZT1 is not a remote desktop program. Zero Tier One basically creates a LAN between devices anywhere, so they show up as if they are in the same local network. The setup is extremely, boneheadedly simple. If you're trying to basically set up a home VPN server, I recommend Zero Tier One. I haven't tested it on TMHI, but it should work just fine.

Ok found this it may help some ppl. 

Fix Double NAT on an Xbox, router, and PC

https://www.purevpn.com/blog/double-nat/

Darnold wrote:

I have been using t-mobile hotspot and other carriers for years and have also had issues with the port forwarding. The issue is that t-mobile and others use a carrier grade NAT which will never assign you a public IP when connecting to the internet. You will be assigned a shared IP to WAN which means there is no way to direct any particular port to your device directly. Unless t-mobile offers a service to allow a public or dedicated IP this probably will never be supported, even if the router they provide has it available in their settings. 

However, I have found a decent work around that has worked well for me, though I am still waiting for my device to come in for me to try on the t-mobile home internet. It works well with my phone tethering and hotspot though so I assume it will work the same. PureVPN has a service with their VPN that assigns your connection with a dedicated IP address and port forwarding. It works with PPTP and L2TP / ipsec only but this makes it very easy to set up. PPTP is hardly encrypted and is not standard to use for many VPNs, but it is very very fast and is minimal on latency / bandwidth compromises. 

I use a second router with dd-wrt firmare and use PPTP to connect straight through its WAN connection settings. Super easy to setup, and the dedicated IP you assigned becomes the WAN IP of the second router which means port forwarding is used directly. No need to open any ports or DMZ with the t-mobile router at all. Routers will vary with PPTP WAN support, but this should be a pretty common protocol so others might work the same. 

This is actually easier than it might seem, and it works better than you might expect. The benefit is that you will also have a dedicated IP which is super handy to have. The downside is that there is a cost to these services, but PureVPN also supports OpenVPN so you can use to connect other devices as a standard VPN. Its a work around, but so far its the only way I have found to poke holes through that wall. 

Hola,

Have you got PureVPN to work with your settings? If so, is anything in addition to the instructions PureVPN provides at their website you did?

Gracias.