As the title says has anyone used the service to get around CGNAT? Is it even possible?
I’ve come to the end of a very long road with my isp regarding a poor broadband connection over copper and I feel that until fibre is installed in my village (I’m in UK so could be for ever), I’ve looked at a 5G connection. I’m getting 300-400mbs down and 20mbs up (fixed line 20mbs down 6mbs up). I don’t want to give up on my nodes but feel I may have to until in the future. so before I cancel the service and go fully mobile is this an option? I know vps can do this but my nodes don’t generate enough revenue to justify this. Having said this I would have to use the paid service at localxpose but I feel its cheaper and easier to maintain. Your thoughts.
@Alexey is this an ads?
No not at all. I’ve been a Storj node operator since V2. This is just a service I’ve come across during a google search and a few YouTube videos. Just want to know if it works in this scenario. I don’t want to leave Storj but feel I may have to due to this technical limitation of my new isp.
I use Oracle free forever to get around my cgnat. It works very well. I don’t know, if they offer it in the UK.
Slight tangent but have you looked on https://www.openreach.com to see if there is any indication of if and when they’re likely to bring FTTP to your address?
Without going into a massive post with loads of research. I don’t believe Openreach are laying fibre anytime soon. Connect fibre won the contract to supply Rural Derbyshire with fibre but details of progression are very slow coming (they won it around Christmas last year and I’m not aware of any physical progress). My current landline has had many fixes on it but it slowly seems to be deteriorating. Even the minimum promised speed has been reduced. Its got to the point where 20 down 6 up is not coping with normal use plus Storj. What I’ve not mentioned is the continual drops and many thousand errors reported by my modem.
Ironically, I live with in a few hundred meters of an industrial estate that has fibre, right at the side of the M1 and A38 and every surrounding village has multiple fibre suppliers and we don’t have one FTTP supplier.
I see… Literally a postcode lottery…
Are there any FWA providers available where you live?
so have you tried this? please update. I may need this too. Thank you for sharing.
Sorry FWA Provider?? Never heard the term
I’ve not tried yet just seeing if anyone has already used the service.
There is 10TB/month free egress. After that it gets very expensive. I moved my nodes from oracle to AirVPN during tests – and if the tests reflect anticipated reality then oracle’s generous plan is also out of the window.
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Fixed Wireless Access
When I didn’t have FTTP in my new home in Shrewsbury (not even FTTC), that was an option. I believe the company were called Airband.
Perhaps there is something similar available to you?
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I guess you have better chances to get FTTP with Hyperoptic or Community Fibre than with Openreach. But be careful, FTTP doesn’t mean you get an IPv4 address by default. I pay an extra £5/month for an IPv4 address with Hyperoptic, otherwise they use CGNAT.
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There is 10TB/month free egress. After that it gets very expensive.
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I was using an oracle node for free for a long time. Then a massive test month came along for storj and it used 20TB of data total, and I didn’t notice until I was hit with a $90 bandwidth charge from oracle.
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Some 5G providers offer public IP, they even have two options - static IP and dynamic IP, and different prices for each option.
You can try contacting your 5G provider, maybe they offer this option, if so, you also need a 5G router that will allow you to do port forwarding, this can also be available through the 5G provider’s app in case of a 5G modem.
However, I would agree that FWA can be an option too, but they may have the same limitation regarding CGNAT.