Home Internet - Open ports for external access

I configured AP mode with my router and opened some ports, but I cannot access it from external IP.

I think I need to open T-Mobile Gateway’s port for external access.

Do a search, this has been an issue for a couple of years now. Clearly T-Mobile does NOT listen to their customers because it seems nothing has changed since they introduced 5G Home Internet. 

It seems they want simple Plug and Play customers only

@copz1998 is correct. You cannot create a NAT, or modify DHCP on T-Mobile gateways. I, for one, would be curious about how your Netgear MR60 reacts if you hook it to the T-Mobile gateway in any other mode than Access Point Mode, where I don't believe you can do port forwarding.

Please educate me with your results.

According to the "Nater Tater" channel on YouTube, TMobile blocks all port forwarding. Verizon does not. TMobile also blocks pretty much all router configuration on the gateway (I have that Aracadian (sp?) one. 

I was told, but have not confirmed Verizon allows the ability to open ports on your home router.

Connect an ethernet cable to their 5G equivalent device and from there you can open ports

on your router for any devices you might own that require port forwarding.  Their 5G unit will

pass it on…    

K

find it interesting that this is marked as solved when clearly it is not!  we are just signed up for t-mobile home internet (had COX) but now find that there is one MAJOR flaw in that we can no longer remotely access our IP cameras or home automation via port forwarding as we have been for years.  Glad we haven't canceled COX yet as we may have dump t-mobile if there isn't a way to get this working!

fields81 wrote:

find it interesting that this is marked as solved when clearly it is not!  we are just signed up for t-mobile home internet (had COX) but now find that there is one MAJOR flaw in that we can no longer remotely access our IP cameras or home automation via port forwarding as we have been for years.  Glad we haven't canceled COX yet as we may have dump t-mobile if there isn't a way to get this working!

Heres the solution. SSH Tunneling. You can use SSH in combination with a VPS to forward your internal network port to the VPS and then you can use the VPS' IP address to access your network. You have to set it up on a per port basis though. You can only have 1 port forwarded per ssh connection so you will have to use multiple ssh connections to the same VPS. I recommend using autossh to automatically keep the connection running should your network or VPS have a hiccup and temporarily lose connection. This docker container should be able to help https://github.com/jnovack/autossh

@bocaboy2591 the MR60 works fine as both an access point and internet gateway. But, to avoid having the T-Mobile gateway step on the MR60 signal, the MR60 is just an access point to the TM gateway. 

Maybe T-Mobile corporate can provide a response to this thread? 

I did a quick search on the corporate website and did not find any references on how to deal with NAT concerns.

KenKK wrote:

I was told, but have not confirmed Verizon allows the ability to open ports on your home router.

Connect an ethernet cable to their 5G equivalent device and from there you can open ports

on your router for any devices you might own that require port forwarding.  Their 5G unit will

pass it on…    

K

This is true