NAT (Forwarding) in T-Mobile Gateway

teckel wrote:

inteller wrote:

Holy sh* man you are saying exactly what I'm stating!  The right thing to do would be instead of trying to work against me, work WITH me to pressure T-Mobile to get this deivce more functional and then we can ALL do whatever we want with it.

 

 

 

All T-mobile has to do is enable the device to bridge.  That's it.  I know this because that's how my cable modem worked and I was able to do everything else I wanted from there.  So if you want to sit there and tell me the networking configuration I used for YEARS was 'incorrect' and didn't work, go right ahead…..but you are not helping. You can be an apologist for why they don't enable these things, but this device is for HOME INTERNET.  I do not sit at home on my phone and nothing else. If that is T-mobile's position then I'll be returning it and wait until they grow up.

Actually, we're not at all saying the same thing.  You believe the modem could be updated with a few feature and it would work.  I'm saying that's not the case, as you're basically behind T-Mobile's NAT/VPN so enabling features on the model wouldn't solve the problem one bit.

How exactly do do believe enabling bridge mode would solve your problem?  You're comparing your cable company's network with T-Mobile, which are TOTALLY different.  Your cable company didn't hide your connection behind a NAT/VPN.  You could identify your home connection with a unique IP address which you could access remotely (with or without a DDNS like NoIP).  But T-Mobile's network doesn't work like your cable company.  Every connection is like a VPN or NAT, where there's not a unique IP address, but it's shared with many other people.

So, lets's say bridge mode is available on your T-Mobile modem.  How would you remotely access your home modem?  By IP? Via a DDNS like NoIP?  Nope!  As there's still not a unique IP address assigned to your home connection, it's shared with thousands of other people.  So you would try to access your home network and it could never route to your home.

So I'm sorry, you don't know what you're talking about.  You have limited knowledge and basing your assumptions on how your cable company's network is configured, when in reality T-Mobile's network isn't at all setup the same way, and as a result, your assumption that bridge mode will solve everything is totally wrong.  Sorry, it's not as simple as that.

You are forgetting, that T-Mobile LTE gateway works just fine when switched into a bridge mode! So, it is not the network issue per se, it is a firmware issue on this 5G trashcan.