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Windscribe offers it with different options... go to the section about static IP for more details about the costs/benefits/limitations.

Proton and Surfshark were looking at expanding into this area about a year ago when I contacted them, but IDK if they ever put anything out there.

Think I heard something about Surfshark merging into another brand though... not sure.

Yeah I've been with thome internet for over a year waiting and anticipating for some update that will allow us to have a nat type open network but to no avail 😭

A couple months ago I spent a couple hours talking to support about this...their ‘experts’ didn’t even know what NAT is… I sent them some links and explained, I’m a retired network engineer.

Too bad it only supports NAT 3 because otherwise the 5G is great for me in a very rural area. When I want to play online, which is not too often I have to hotspot into my ATT 5G phone, not use tmobile for the internet (use ATT 5G instead) and it works fine.  But then ATT starts buffering me, even though they are not supposed to. I call their support and they turn the buffering off but it always comes back. I have the unlimited plan.

Reaching out to tmobile again to see what they say but I don't think it's likely to get changed. May just have to go the VPN route by buying an additional router or try another 5G provider once they get competitive and have coverage.

I had the same issue, but I think I’ve found a temporary solution to this:

1. On your phone, install Speedify. No need to subscribe to a paid plan (yet), they have a free plan.
2. Connect to Speedify.
3. Turn on your personal hotspot and connect your device (Switch, Xbox, PS, etc.) to it.
4. Your NAT type should now be B.

Alternatively, you should be able to install Speedify on your computer and share it with your gaming device. I have a Mac and my connection keeps dropping somehow, so I haven't been able to get it to work yet. It's been working fine on my iPhone.

Same problem.  No issues when I first got it.  If I do a restart of the gateway over and over eventually I will get a NAT B on my Nintendo Switch.  Most times I get a NAT D.  I have restarted the gateway for up to 10 times before I get a NAT B or get mad and quit.

T-Mobile tech support, says there is nothing they can do on their end.  But it just doesn't make sense that sometimes I get a B and most times I get a D.

What makes me even angrier is that 2 abject weasels representatives and agents for TMOBILE straight up lied to me when I queried them about this. One told me, I just wouldnt be able to "ethernet" my way into NAT resolution, implying that I could do so (SETUP OPEN NAT) over the air just not with a hard wired ethernet cord. I thought well who the hell wants to do that anyways, but as we all are finding out, there's absolutely NOTHING that can be done with this topology lest one wants to pay for unscrupulous VPN providers and near as I can see, there's zero guarantee with that either. THIS MAY SEVER A DECADE LONG RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR CELL SERVICE TOO, TMOBILE. What exactly is Verizon offering, anything?

Eedmond777 wrote:

Same problem. Weird thing is I've played for months using their internet on my Xbox x without issue, then last week, bam, strict and can't play online anymore.  I've been using their internet for 6 months with some minor connection issues, but now can't connect at all.

Same for me. Been on playing pubg for 5 months now all the sudden I get kicked from all games. I can stream just no game connection. I'm about to change service

i’ve had tmobile internet for about 4 months and haven’t had a problem until last week. strict nat type and upnp not successful. tmobile support is also clueless and don’t know anything either.

Set your other NAT device to pass through 

tman05 wrote:

I've been having the same issue with my Xbox for a while now. Today I was trying to figure it out and might have stumbled on to something. If you go to network settings on your Xbox and select advance settings and go to port selection and choose manual, then select one of the ports, it might open for you. You might have to try several different ports until it works but I got both my son's and my Xbox to show open.

This works but for like 10 mins then it’ll just go back to moderate/strict