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Home internet service IPv6 traffic is all filtered even when using a Netgear LTE router. No port forwarding. Plz fix!
My background is in IT / networking and I started using Tmo Home Internet for the past 2 weeks. The router being shipped today to customers is missing very important features for power users - it act...
Not sure you caught all that was posted in there.
I ran a generic search on a specific name (T-Mobile USA), which returned like a dozen unique ASN's.
That in no way encompasses the entirety of their organization's provisioned addresses.
Remember, they also just picked up all those Sprint assets as well, which also has over a dozen ASN's provisioned.
Just ONE ASN had over 12million v4 IP's reserved…
...as in provisioned for their exclusive use.
How many are actively in use, and how many could be repurposed is an important question.
For example, what if they flipped the script on fully functional cell over to home internet provisioning? Put all the cell/hotspots into the new funky and restrictive XLAT/CGN layer, and give all the vacated fully functional IP's to home internet.
Think about this for a moment…
Why is it sooo important to reserve all that super high speed bandwidth and port traversal capability for those mobile devices, as opposed to the home internet users? What is the rational for prioritizing north of 100-200mbps down and 20mbps up as well as a properly functioning network model for mostly single user device cell usage while denying such important things to HOME NETWORKS?
They very well COULD have set this up properly…
...but for whatever reason, they CHOSE to set it up this way.
They didn't HAVE too.
