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 thread, and hope the developers will notice this. The speed is great, and the same as was advertised in the chat.I would like this issue to be resolved so that I don't need to continue with Optimum (Morris Broadband).

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.

T-Mobile Home Internet uses CG-Nat - which means end users share IP addresses. Unless they move away from that (which they will not since it would require completely new infrastructure) you will not be able to do port forwarding. There simply is no way to identify YOUR unique address since you do not have one - it is shared. However, there is a solution which does work - I am using it. Paketriot https://packetriot.com/ allows tunnels to be created which will have a unique endpoint which will then allow you to hit a port in YOUR internal network. There are other providers like Packetriot. I like Packetriot because it has the option to create a Windoze Service for all your tunnels. Nice when the machine reboots because you can have the service autostart. Most of the providers offer a free tunnel so you can try it out.They should not call this Home Internet it is really a home hotspot.

They need to fix their screwy xlat464/cgnat style network first.As long as they continue to filter that unsolicited inbound traffic at the higher network layers, won't matter what options are available/configured on our local modems/routers. It is actually getting nixed at the outer edges of the networks, so it never makes it to the modem, much less the router.

I spoke with TMobile Home Internet technical support over the past week. They are working on the port forwarding feature within their 5g modem/router, but it's not available or ready yet. 2 different techs said they have a workaround, however (& it doesn't require 3rd party services).I haven't tested it yet, but what you need to do is, & many of us have this setup already, connect via Ethernet (wire) the garbage can LAN port <-> YOUR own router. Then configure port forwarding on YOUR router. That's it. (Your router needs to support ipv6! Not sure if we need to allow ipv6 passthrough for this.)Now, I was educated a long time ago on IPv4 & they barely touched on IPv6, so I don't know a lot about it, but this would never work this way with IPv6. Ipv6, however can allow passthrough so public "internet" can pass through a router, which is why I'm "buying" this theory. Ie, you can go through T-Mobiles garbage can, and then your router, and you device (call it a PC) could have a public IPv6 IP, which is why port forwarding could work this way.Anyone have time to test & report back? Or comments?I previously had a dynamic public IP (ipv4) that I made work with my domain name via ZoneEdit that allowed my PC to update ZoneEdit with public Ip changes since it was dynamic. With this NEW setup, I'm not exactly sure how that would work, or if my DNS service will play nicely or even support ipv6 or if ZoneEdit will either. And I have numerous services that I need to "hit" MY router & forward internally, such as a VPN, RDP, FTP, website, etc - not sure if all that will play nicely - or if all the services, like VPN client, can point to a domain->ipv6 ip & work. Like will the VPN client config & SW accept this new format?Anyways, lot of testing & messing around needed! Please report back with any updates!

I was researching a project I was doing and came across this thread. I have T-Mobile @ home internet. The speeds are amazing compared to what I had prior to T-Mobile. On the T-Mobile router, I have three bars out of 5. I have on average 300Mbps ↓ and on average 20-45Mps ↑. I'm very happy with the speeds. However, I can't connect to my Home Assistant, security cameras, and my media center. I have an ASUS router that I have flashed with OpenWRT and I have tried several tricks, including doing DDNS updates every 10 minutes to my DNS server, CloudFlare. Nothing really worked. I spoke to T-Mobile technical support. That was just painful. I went to a supervisor. Finally, I had to state, "I'm a 4th decade computer engineer, I have the highest licenses from the FCC in amateur radio communication. And what you are saying is so horribly incorrect". I spent an hour teaching the supervisor. Finally, I decided to try their business internet. It was the same price as the home internet. Plus, for an extra $3.00 I could have a static IP address. They send me this Inseego router. It wasn't even a quarter of the size of the @home internet router. It was about 1/8th of the size of the @home router. Before turning it on, I knew this was not going to work. Surprise, Surprise, it did not! Most of the time, I had the blue flashing light, meaning I barely had a signal. Sometimes it would switch to 4G. When I had only one bar (very weak signal), I was getting 14 Mbps ↓ and 2 Mpbs ↑. I found a spot in the house that I was getting three bars (good signal strength) and the speed was even worse. 8-14 Mps ↓ and 0.5 Mps ↑. This was not going to work. I cancelled the business account.I did find a workaround. Or the best that is possible with the situation we are all in.CloudFlare has a very generous free tier. I have many domain names. I have one that my entire family uses. CloudFlare has a very generous free tier on their Zero Trust feature. I use a Raspberry Pi Zero that costs $15.00. They're back in stock. If they are out of stock, they come back in stock very quickly. I have already received for this month (July 2023). I installed CloudFlared on the Zero W. Then in CloudFlare's Zero Trust I can set up sub domains to each device that I want. Home Assistant can have ha.familydomain.tld. Media Server, jellyfin.familydomain.tld, etc. Works with no problem. HOWEVER, there are two downsides. One, Zero Trust free tier does not "allow" and I use rapid quotes on allow. If you want to stream video, such as with your Plex or JellyFin Media server, you have to upgrade your Zero Trust plan to their $5.00 streaming service. However, as long as it's not to much, I heard they don't really say anything. But, technically, you could be cut off.Second, is that I have a NextCloud server for my family too. When, uploading files to NextCloud outside your LAN, you can only upload a max file size of 100mb due to CloudFlare's restrictions on their network unless you upgrade. Even if you upgrade, it's not that much. That's the only thing that's really horrible with this alternative work around to T-Mobiles restrictions on port forwarding. Other than that, it works very well!I'm going to create a YouTube video next week on how to set this all up. When I finish the video, I'll post an update with the link.Good luck!

NAT (Forwarding) in T-Mobile Gateway

Jackson300zx
Network Novice
Hace 3 años
Not sure if anyone answered this exactly yet.....But, sounds like you can port forward. What you need to do is switch over to a business account. The monthy cost is the same, but you have to add $5 per month for a static IP address and also get their FX2000 modem. Then you can port forward. I have not tested it yet, I literally just ordered it.
Servicio:
https://www.t-mobile.com/business/solutions/business-internet-services/small-business-internet
Modem:
https://inseego.com/products/fixed/fx2000-tmobile/
CarSmart
Network Novice
Hace 3 años
I use smarthing hub mesh system with 6 hubs places around home. I was using xfinity before and tmobile now. This uses the Plume technology and yours may be different mine but it does work
mrbintx
Network Novice
Hace 3 años
I recently purchased a new home that came with a "Home Automation Kit". This included a Ring doorbell, Samsung Smartthings Hub (to connect to Z-Wave thermostats) and a Genie Aladdin Connect garage Door Control Module. I have the T-Mobile 5G modem with WiFi turned off and a Netgear AP connected for WiFi.
The Ring doorbell works over WiFi. The Samsung Smartthings Hub will not connect (using Ethernet port on T-Mobile modem or WiFi). The Aladdin Connect module will not connect via WiFi.
The installer immediately indicated that the Smartthings hub would not work with my “hot spot” and it didn’t.
Has anyone been able to get a Smartthings Hub working with the T-Mobile 5G modem.
HunchoxJac
Network Novice
Hace 3 años
So I’m having NAT Issues for my ps4 where I’m trying to connect with people in elden ring which I need a NAT 2 and I have no idea how to change the NAT type from 3 to 2 on my 5g gateway please help help help help help is there any way around this or a way
hodnett_james
Newbie Caller
Hace 3 años
Not to be pessimistic but TMO has known about this issue since inception. They aren't going to fix it. Or they aren't knowledgeable enough to do so. Needless to say, TMO is just a step to getting better services in my rural location. TMO doesn't seem to care. They laud themselves as customer-centric but TMO is just another business innit for the money. Yay capitalism.
If they could fix this issue for us their customers, maybe they wouldn’t be viewed as they are.
MrPez
Newbie Caller
Hace 3 años
Hello Everyone.
If anyone needs to port forward for a DVR security camera system. Forget it.
However, if your DVR has a Cloud P2P option, it will work.
I have a HikVision DVR and I successfully connected my phone with their Cloud P2P.

I would imagine that any DVR that uses a Cloud P2P service will work because it bypasses the need to Port Forward.
Hope this helped someone.
¡Éxitos!
JonathanYbor
Newbie Caller
Hace 3 años
After 8 very good months of fast, reliable service here in Tampa I'm about to cancel. I need to open one simple port to allow some services and TMO Home Internet can't seem to do it and I'm not spending hours trying to figure out some sort of work around.
Calling Frontier Fiber in the morning got 1GB fiber fir $69 or maybe 2GB Fiber for $150… either way I'm done w/ TMO. Kind of sux because otherwise it worked will.

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PortalWizard
Network Novice
Hace 3 años
My nat was strict and couldn’t play in a party on Xbox.
Great lad at customer service had me run 2 speed tests and that pushed me into whatever and now the nat is open. Yay for cgnat
emc
Newbie Caller
Hace 3 años
extremetm wrote:

Edit: ignore my reply.
Adutude
Network Novice
Hace 3 años
For my part, I live on a boat, using the Inseego Wifi Router. Bandwidth is good, but I have the problem when trying connect to Minecraft hosted instances and playing astroneer. I also have an Android Samsung A52, that I use as a hotspot on the T-Mobile Network. Zoom works for meetings w/ work (kind of had to set up my laptop as a DMZ machine to get it to work). Long story short. I have an iPhone that has Verizon, and no problems. On the Verizon network I have no problem with Minecraft, Zoom, or Astroneer. Whatever T-Mobile is doing on their network to hack around their lack of IP addresses (or whatever their major malfunction is) does not appear to exist on Verizon. I tried ZeroTier and was not able to get it to work, but I'm sure I probably could if I had the time/motivation to get a VPN properly working. The main problem is that the IP address that presents to the Internet can never route back to my actual box, e.g. you connect to the outside world but the IP address presented to the Internet will never route back to your local box because of the way CGNAT (carrier grade NAT) that is being implemented on T-Mobile. In other words, you make a connection to a remote host and they try to connect back to the IP address that they think you are connecting from and it doesn't actually connect back to the host that you are connecting from. It's not a problem w/ the modem or your device, it's on the T-Mobile network. It works on Verizon, not on T-Mobile. If you want to solve this problem either T-Mobile has to fix their broken network, or you need to switch to Verizon.