Feature Request - Home Internet Gateway DHCP Settings

I agree the nokia gateway has almost no configurable features and TMobile should release a firmware upgrade to remedy these problems. There is a tedious work around for some of the problems particularly if you have an old router or old pc with 2 NIC's at your disposal.

I was with another provider and to help filter traffic I setup and old PC and installed PFSENSE with 1 port connected to my LAN and the other to the provider. I had setup OpenVPN and also used port forwarding to remotely connect to my home network and really miss those features with the t-mobile internet gateway. My old connection is still active (1 year paid) and I connected my old linksys router to the pfsense box and switched the pfsense LAN to 192.168.12.0 network and then connected them to the ethernet ports on the t-mobile gatewayand set the LAN as the default gateway. I disabled DHCP on the pfsense and linksys routers. I can now VPN through my old connection and go out through the higher speed 5G tmobile gateway.

Now I know PFSENSE can block DHCP requests per interface and issue DHCP leases on other interfaces or alternatvely put the pfsense/router box on another network such as 192.168.1.1 and have it handle all your DHCP and DNS requests. In this case I could use the linksys router for wireless or setup and wireless access point connected to the pfsense box. Note that any direct wifi connections to the 5G gateway will bypass the pfsense box and get DHCP and DNS from the t-mobile 5G gateway/router. You still wouldn't be able to use port forwarding (useful if you want to check your home security cameras) without a second connection mentioned above but it would allow some control of DHCP and DNS. You should be able to do something similar with any old wifi router even without a pfsense box. Connect with the lan switch at the back to the t-mobile gateway or connect the WAN and use a different LAN network (I haven't tried this with the wan port yet but seems it would work if you used a different network for the LAN on the old router).

I can say the T-MOBILE is much faster than my fixed connection, so for now I use that for outgoing and the fixed to get around the t-mobile limitations, at least till my other subscription expires.