Their topology simply doesn't give us a properly functioning public v4 presence for any of it to work. All of that "normal" functionality with traditional wired ISP's that give us a proper dual-stack service fails because of what they are doing upstream from their modem.
We have full functionality (except for a flat out bridge mode) on the older Askey LTE boxes. so all the concerns about double-nat on the private side, as well as whether you have access to configure forwarding/dmz on their modem router are moot at this point. TMO's XLAT464/CGNAT topology breaks unsolicited inbound connections in the upper layers anyway. I’m just about ready to return it, even though the speeds are great. None are supported by the T-Mobile home internet gateway.
Anybody do Remote Desktop to their home computer from outside? Anybody have a NAS at home they’d like to access from outside? Anybody run Pi-Hole ad blocking for their whole home network? Anybody do preassigned IP addresses for DHCP on their home LAN? Anybody VPN into their home? Anybody do SSH into their home machines? These functions are all supported by even the cheapest home routers. Those suggesting to simply plug their router into the LAN port of the T-Mobile gateway obviously don’t any port forwarding to their home devices. Nearly all routers and modems I’ve encountered are defaulted to 192.168.1.1. If T-Mobile wants to “simplify” setup they should have those four as choices, if they don’t want users to be able to choose whatever address they want. What should have taken me five minutes to setup instead took half the day and I still have to get out a keyboard, monitor, and mouse just to change a 0 to 12 in my media server config. For that I’m required to upend the configurations of every single networked device I have. Smart TV, tablets, laptop, printers, my dd-wrt wireless repeater-bridge would all carry on as though nothing had changed.īut not with T-Mobile.
My previous password was shorter, easy to remember, and would definitely not succumb to a dictionary attack and would take a while with brute force methods.īefore the T-Mobile High Speed gateway all I needed to do to swap DSL modems out was set the SSID, WiFi Password, and gateway IP. Then there’s the forced 12+ character WiFi password. 12.1 ? Is this intentional, to break as many private home LAN setups as they possibly can? I ran into this same problem yesterday setting up mine. Where I live, I’m a slave to Sectrum Cable (previously Time Warner/Charter), as we have no other internet providers in our area. The question, does anyone know of a WiFi Router that can use the Home Internet 5G Gateway/Router as a “modem”, then allow the new WiFi Router to set it’s own IP configuration?
However, not being able to change the base IP (which is really unheard of for routers) left this device useless to me. With that said, I tried the Home Internet 5G Gateway/Router for a day, and I got decent 50-80MBs data speeds, good enough for home use. If you yourself have done this, you know that once you change the base IP, you can’t go back to reconfigure those devices that ONLY communicate via hard wire. I have way too many IOT devices, multiple PC’s, NAS’s, and peripherals to think about changing my base IP. I have an existing large (for home) WiFi/hard wire LAN network setup on IP base of 10.0.x.x. x) hard coded into it’s OS, and CANNOT be changed. I tried to use the Home Internet 5G Gateway/Router in my home network setup, but unfortunately, the router has it’s base IP address (i.e.