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I wish the T-Mobile Home Internet Gateway was JUST a modem!!!
I just left Breezeline due to horrible service for over a month, and when it went out from home, my T-Mobile iPhone became my hotspot. After realizing it was more reliable than my landline Internet, ...
" have a double NAT situation and the T-Mobile gateway is emitting frequencies that are going unused. This is a huge oversight on T-Mobile’s end. "
The problem, as I understand it, is in Carrier-Grade NAT, the protocol used by T-Mobile and some other companies.
The public IP address you get is the broadcast tower, not your device as in other forms of Internet such as cable or DSL, and it communicates with your device through a TCP/IP port.
That way, they can make best use of the limited IPv4 addresses in their netblock. If T-Mobile switched to IPv6 at the tower, we could get a fully-capable — and bridgeable — gateway because every subscriber would get their own IP address.
That's as I understand the conundrum.
There are third-party gateways out there which are authenticated on your network via your simcard and are bridgeable, but they're hella-expensive.
