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New apartment Internet has no port forwarding, admin login (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Pro: 1Gb upload and download speeds on free Internet provided by the HOA. Con: As a self hoster, I have zero control over it. No port forwarding, no DMZ, no bridge mode. It's Starbucks free WiFi with a wired connection.

Option A: Buy Google Fiber and don't use free Internet. Option B: Create some elaborate tunnel through a VPS.

My public self hosted activities are fairly low bandwidth (password manager, SSH). I have a vague idea that I could point my domain to a low cost VPS that has a VPN tunnel into my home network for any incoming connection needs. That may require me to fill in port forwards on both systems but whatever. Tailscale is serving most of my remote needs but I still need a few ports. This does not fix the issue of online gaming port forwards (Nintendo Switch online requires a huge forwarded range for best performance) but oh well for now.

UPDATE: I think they're using this system. https://www.cambiumnetworks.com/markets/multi-family-living/ The personal Wi-Fi overview makes it clear each AP is given it's own VLAN which sounds a whole lot like the whole building is sharing one IP and there's no way I'm going to get my own Internet access. They even detail how you can roam the building and maintain your WiFi connection across your neighbor's and the common areas APs. This is the IPV4 future.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Haven't had to use port forwarding for gaming in like 30 or so years, so I just looked up Nintendo's website...

Within the port range, enter the starting port and the ending port to forward. For the Nintendo Switch console, this is port 1024 through 65535

LMAO, no thanks, that's not happening.

For your question, you could likely route everything through a tunnel and manage the port forwarding on the other end of the tunnel.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

WTF? Nintendo wants you to get that wide open? 🤣

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I actually gave it 44000-65535 and it's connecting well. That's another reason why I wanted a more robust network: IOT VLAN to segregate that risk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's how I have it at home. 6 VLANs total. Even IoT and Media/games are separated from each other.

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