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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...
djb14336 wrote: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 why 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 scriotnonncell and home internet provisioning? Put all the cell/hotspots into the funky XLAT/CGN layer, and give all the vacated 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 a home NETWORK.
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.
But they DO have to. They all HAVE to. T-Mobile put the money and time into switching to IPv6 long before they rolled out home internet. They didn't do it just for fun. After doing so, when it came to home internet, I imagine their thoughts were: Everyone has to switch to IPv6. We are already where we need to be. Why do we want to roll back to IPv4 while our competitors.are still trying to switch their networks over to IPv6. In my opinion, the fact T-Mobile was able to switch IPv6 earlier than most, shows them as a leader. Since they have, most of my traffic is IPv6. And, like I said, please excuse me if I am assuming here, I don't think your complaint is about IPv6. Your complaint is about not having inbound connectivity. And I agree with that complaint. But that is a different issue IPv6 or not.
