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Comment by genewitch

> at the end of a consumer internet connection.

CGNAT needs to be routed around, which means you need at least a "$5 VPS" with a routable IP address to bastion for you. If you monitor the word "wifi" on social media it's a pretty decent proxy for where CGNAT is prevalent. Used in a sentence, "we just got wifi at the new house."

I've written a couple guides on this and subjects like it; i've had to use squid in a datacenter to forward proxy my lightning detector at the house, otherwise it would never receive a heartbeat - even though it would auth and start trying to send data; i've bypassed CGNAT so i could host console "co-op" games (diablo III, for example); and i've "mirrored" my phone media sync to a colocated server as well, just to avoid trying to route around (triple?) CGNAT to my synology at home.

parent genewitch 2 years ago

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