So since Reddit is out for me, I’m turning here to see if anyone has some insight or can comment on this. Anything you’ve got would be great!
Long and short, I made a quick decision and am now living in a “Spectrum Community” - whereby tenants are charged a fixed rate for Internet and TV and connect to a “mesh” network via captive portal where MAC addresses must be registered to the tennants. Everyone shares the same network, sorta, but it’s got that feature where no one can sniff each other (unless MAC addresses are registered to your name).
There’s some debate on posts regarding this, whether connecting your own gateway will cause an issue, but I would like to connect my own gateway / router. Now, I’d also like to port forward, as I run my own mail server, etc… which need this and a public IP address I can register with my domain in order for all the fun stuff to work.
I doubt I can connect the gateway / router and port forward as if the community were offering a “communal modem”, so the question becomes:
Can I defeat this “double NAT” by routing all traffic from MY gateway through a VPS? Then, can I tie my domain / proxy service to the public IP address of this VPS to make all my services work?
Other services I run:
PiHole
Unbound DNS resolving
Emby
Wireguard (for mobile access to PiHole)
And other web based services
Again, thanks. Hopefully someone reads this and knows what I’m talking about. I believe in Lemmy.
Running a solution like Wiregaurd + VPS or Tailscale is probably your best solution. It’ll be transparent for you and won’t set off any red flags for the network.
I’ve run tailscale on a cellular home internet platform as well a shared one like you have and it was slick.
I’ve had the exact same spectrum setup in Orlando and I just gave up connecting to local services. Had a VPS for my external stuff and things I wanted to reach away from home and then used a couple of local services when at home.
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Running a solution like Wiregaurd + VPS or Tailscale is probably your best solution. It’ll be transparent for you and won’t set off any red flags for the network.
I’ve run tailscale on a cellular home internet platform as well a shared one like you have and it was slick.
I’ve had the exact same spectrum setup in Orlando and I just gave up connecting to local services. Had a VPS for my external stuff and things I wanted to reach away from home and then used a couple of local services when at home.