Home Internet - Open ports for external access

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…    

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From what I was told, T-Mobile uses a single ip for multiple devices/accounts. so if they opened up a port for one user it would be opening it up for several making it less secure for others.

I have no idea if this is true but I was them told if I got a business' account and a different router i might be able to. so far no luck. I need ports open so bad. 

Edit: it might be called CGNAT (Carrier-Grade NAT) 

If the T-mobile 5G internet does not give you a local IP address how does services

like MLB not think your outside your local area ?   With the news with Netflix tracking IP

address of password sharing, how does it know your not the account holder?  I believe

Netflix lets you roam a bit but you have to check back and log in one every 30 days or

so with that device.

This problem needs to be fixed at the T-Mobile end at some point so hardware that require

opening ports to connect to will work.  If you have to purchase a VPN that defeats the saving

and why you might have gone to T-Mobile 5G

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. 

Scdrew15 wrote:

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

The issue is that T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T are selling Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) which is not the same as the Internet access sold by other ISPs, e.g., Xfinity. Take a look at your external IP address. Most likely, it is not where you live but in another location. I live in S. Florida but my external IP is in Bellingham, WA. That's part of the way FWA works. I know that there are workarounds, but I haven't had a need to try any of them. When I need a local external address, I use Mullvad VPN and connect to an external network here in S. Florida.

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

@jin735, take a look at this Nater Tater video on how to NAT a device on the T-Mobile network. I'd be curious to know if this works for you.

Same issue can’t find advanced setting and see that even having a router in between may not help

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.

Alas, there's the rub! That's why most people on the Forum who need to NAT an address find they can't do it.