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NAT (Forwarding) in T-Mobile Gateway
I recently signed up for T-Mobile internet, and I am VERY disappointed that I could not even forward NAT traffic to my home security system. I saw that this was discussed 7 months ago in a previous...
inteller wrote:I'm fairly confident that this device (Nokia) is able to handle all of these things. I think what has happened here is T-Mobile threw a very locked down firmware on the device to make setup easy.
The following things need to happen.
Provide settings to place the gateway in bridge mode. This will allow customers to keep their existing setups and NAT fine.
Provide settings to turn off the wifi in the gateway COMPLETELY. Turning off broadcast and reducing power to minimal is not sufficient.
Make all of these settings accessible only through the web admin page. The average consumer doesn't need this stuff, but the power user who is smart enough to know how to login to the admin web page should be able to modify these settings.
Ultimately, I just want “a dumb modem” just like I get with the cable co. I don’t want or need T-Mobile helping me by dumbing down the device.
But, since they really need a new modem anyway that supports the higher frequencies, it's probably easier to replace the current units with new units that support the higher frequencies as well as adds the lacking features.
Also, it's more than just port forwarding and bridged mode. Even with this, you still can't access your home remotely as there's not an ip address assigned to the device. This is why a solution like ZeroTier is needed. It doesn't have anything to do with port forwarding or bridged mode, it's that there isn't even an IP address assigned that you can point to. It's like being behind a VPN, which is what ZeroTier allows you to get around.
