🔴Solving Double-NAT / CG-NAT issue with T-Mobile Home Internet using Modem Only and Bridge Mode 

Of course not 😉. Kids will be kids. Mine kids tease me like any other dad but someday I hope they will come around.

@@PeterC408 I'm sure they will. Even the rebels will realize at some point that nothing can replace family. I may or may not have been one of them! 😂

In order to make your TMobile SIM chip work in another device you are going to have to change a few settings. It is not a big deal but some locations around the world consider changing these values as a nefarious act. In my opinion it is not and it is legal in many location around the world. If you live in the USA, it is not a big deal but RU-vid is shown globally. Great news! This the Invisagig has awesome US based support. Give them a call and they will help you out!

Okay, so here's the skinny. It sounds like you are very capable at doing some good Network skills and know how do do a lot of the standard tricks. TMobile Home Internet is going to fight you the whole way. The good news is that we got most of them solved. The gateway that TMHI gives you is good for the average person, but not for you. It is both your access point and your modem and both are lacking features. You need to get a new Modem and you probably use your existing WiFi access point (that's the good news). My AP is so much better than the TMobile Gateway. I have found some 3rd party 5G modems and have been successful in configuring them to pass through the IP address (bridge mode), not my NetGear access point is in control. I use DDNS and No-IP to keep track of the changing IP address (CG-NAT) and allow that all to work. PLEX has been serving well for over 4 months now and I can CRAFT my signal so that I am getting ballanced UPLINK and DOWNLINK scores. I needed good UPLINK to serve and now I get about 140Mbps. Hope that helps. Stay tuned... I am reviewing my favorite 5G modem yet!!

He's using an InvisaGig 5G Modem to passthrough his public IP address to his Netgear Orbi router. I have seen comments with others that have tried this and not being able to port forward. Peter has demonstrated Plex but I have yet to see him demonstrate any other services. I'd like to see Peter set up some alternate services and present that as a video. Think this would help a lot of people.

Double NAT isn't a real issue for most people. I lived with it for two years, no issues except for not being able to serve Plex outside of my home. Here's the issue, all T-Mobile gateways are gateways (both modems and access points). Neither have a ton of high end features, but get the job done for what they are selling. The problem is to take care of CG-NAT (changing IPs from a phone network), I have to use an advanced feature common on many access points called DDNS but when I employ another access point (using NAT), I am using NAT twice (once form T-Mobile and then again by myself), I traded one problem for the other... that's why I got a modem only and put it in Bridge Mode and let my router DDNS to report my changing IP to a 3rd party, which was No-IP. It is easy once someone points it out, but the whole industry told me that I could not fix it... now it is fixed.

@@PeterC408 Genuinely curious here. Besides Plex what else have you managed to connect to over the Internet?

To be clear there's no way to get the bridge mode to work with the T-Mobile equipment. You need to get a third party gateway in order to pull that trick. You also need an access point that has a DDNS feature.

Thanks,@@PeterC408

@@PeterC408 How do you pull out the SIM from the T-Mobile gateway to install it into the third party one? I need to make the remote access for Plex work with T-Mobile internet and I tried about a year ago and everything was too complicated. Your videos make it look fairly simple, but sounds like you must still use a third party gateway, even when doing the No-IP solution, is that right?

Most game servers are on a different part of the internet than T-Mobile and thus the latency or ping is not quite as good as some of the other networks. It all depends on what kind of games you're talking about

That's what I am saying... I wrote to them about it but it was Chinese New Years. Now they have answered back asking if I have any other questions.... no, that question will do just fine.

Checking with them on this.

Same issue for me.

Yes, I did get a reply on this. I just need to test it out.

@@PeterC408 that's awesome I hope they have a solution

Originally, I thought they might use the GPS feature to make sure that the Fixed Area Wireless was being used in the right location, but they have never enforced it. There is nothing nefarious with 3rd party routers, we are paying customers who are just trying to get a better signal by going outside to get the signal. I think TMobile should allow 3rd party gateways and they do for business accounts. It says BYOD on their Website. Also, it is just good business to allow 3rd party gateways. We should be allowed to register the IMEI. When they send us a $400 gateway and charge $40/mo, it takes them 10 months to break even. They should allow us to bring our own devices and save them that cost so that they go cash positive on month #1. I wish they would use the GPS to allow us to climb the priority ladder and properly set our location. I am tired of the network thinking I am in Sacramento!! If you have a T-Mobile SIM, you can get on the network with priority 8, but if you are in the right location, you shift to priority 7. Business customers, priority 6.

Lucky for your Invisagig is US based and very responsive. Reach out to Richard over there and he can help.

I would use Bridge mode and try to let the access point do the forwarding.

Did you get it to work ?

@@PeterC408 No it didn't. Kinda bummed that i spent alot of $ on Invisagig for nothing. Hopefully they allow my return.

@@qwik6spdWhat solution did you end up using to get access to your camera system?

What is your uplink speed? I get over 120Mbps UP!

Nothing works like that. If your plex is serving with TMobile it is because your IP address has not changed yet. It will stop. Don't be afraid to try and learn new things. Not sure why you think your Plex is working over T-Mobile but perhaps you are mirroring a small amount of data using the Plex service. It is not 420 Movies, 22 years of pictures and 200 hours of Television .

@@PeterC408 Hey Peter, I definitely do not get that kind of upload speed. I think my speeds are anywhere from 100down/5up at busy hours of the evening to 250down/15up at slow times(Denver suburb). Also I can not say for sure that what you say isn't true but I did convert my library of several hundred movies and TV, dvd and Blu-ray (I was a movie buff with poor financial planning growing up haha) to a small home NAS. That NAS and Plex stopped working outside of my home network when I first switched to T-mobile internet. Initially I was very upset. After some tweaking that I in no way remember, and following some reddit guides at the time I think, was able to get the NAS to serve my plex library over T-mobile(to my knowledge) anywhere I want. Across the country and even while on vacation in Jamaica funny enough. So like I said I can not tell you what exactly I did but I can confirm that I am able to watch my plex library and so are friends and family through my T-mobile internet. Because I can not remember what I did I am afraid to switch to something else at the fear of not being able to get back what I currently have that works, but is just a little slow especially in my basement. That's all that I meant.

@@captainpackage7 which T-Mobile gateway do you have?

I think it is the Nokia 5G21. That is what the bottom says. It is a grey cylinder@@PeterC408

Congratulations! If a battle with T-Mobile was the worst experience you've ever had, you have lived a very blessed life. Stay away from AT&T and Comcast, those guys are terrible ^10

@PeterC408 Unfortunately, it's not the worst experience, just worse service. And guess what I received in the mail today? Another bill from T-mobile for $422 for the hub I returned 5 months ago. And yes, AT&T is almost as bad, and I hear Comcast is as well. I'm now considering contacting a lawyer about the harassment.

It gets pretty crazy with the lingo, but there are gateways, modems and routers (or WiFi access points). I like to keep them separate as challenges are different both inside and out. My favorite modems allow for bridge mode and solve many problems that T-Mobile claimed was impossible!! These modems start at $600, not my fault.

The tower they have set up here is ultra capacity and is not covering the entire city in ultra capacity and I’m in between where it keeps switching on and off apparently and it’s been problems for many customers calling n pissed off and because they are upgrading there networks to have ultra capacity almost everywhere now they asked me if I would be willing to lease land to them and I would get paid for awhile I couldn’t get any more lucky if you ask me 😂 also there coming out with fiber now found that out they already got some up in New York

Which frequencies? I wouldn't want any frequencies above 6 GHz near me and you also need to make sure that you're not too close to the antenna otherwise you won't be able to pick it up.

@@PeterC408 it’s suppose to be a small cell with mid band n41,n71,b2,b66 I’m just now getting to know all the bands and what they can do but I do know while they are putting the 2 small cells up the actual big tower is supposed to be high band which I was told is really fast but doesn’t travel far I guess to cover the rest of the city that isn’t getting good speed

@@PeterC408 they haven’t started yet but they did come out here and mark off where it will be built it’s a good little distance away they explain that it isn’t safe to have it close to homes so they would mark a spot further off I didn’t even know that

But the fact there coming out with fiber now is incredible I can’t wait to see what that is like

USCellular sucks. Sorry.

I have and I have more data that I am worthening to share!

@@PeterC408 Be interested in seeing the additional data that you have.

@@PeterC408 Could you show us your Plex Dashboard when streaming content outside your network? I'd be interested in seeing how much data you are serving from your server. I know you said you had 140Mbps up so curious how much is in use at the time of watching something.

A Ping is simply a test of speed from your computer to a server. There is not one Internet, that is just the media talking. Sounds like the server you want to get to is on another trunk of the internet. It also sounds like you are far from an IXP, internet exchange point (big city).

Interesting 🤔. Where did this come from?

@@PeterC408 came from a T-Mobile employee. But now I know why. I was just emailed that they'll be changing extra for a traveling home internet.

I am not part of the problem, I do not work for T-Mobile or AT&T; I am a consumer like you sharing what I know and for FREE. I am having fun solving problems that others have created, even ones that engineers for these companies said could not be solved. I have made a $40/mo service come to life and be used to replace what ISPs are charging over $100/mo for. I am a gift that you are free not to accept. Lol. Now I know how Jesus felt. 😘 Check out this one, a 5G solution to beat them all ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gMRfklUD_E4.html This is the best piece of equipment that I have ever tested. The T-Mobile gateway leaves a lot to be desired. This fixes every issue that I had with it. You can not fix it with their equipment, I am certain of that.

Paying more for slower speeds?

@@jgleigh And email only tech support.. and premature hardware failure.. network oversaturation..

StarLink is awesome when rural but it's 25/5Mbps. Not bad for streaming but not so great for Zoom meetings. Still cool but limited

No way brother 😂

​@@PeterC408say what? Getting about 225/30 here in Southern California.