I was looking into Verizon's 5G home internet service. It is not available without CGNAT. With no fixed IP or dynamic dns available it will be difficult to have a VPN server for remote access. This is also currently true for T Mobile's 5G home internet service. But, Tailscale seems like it may be a CGNAT solution. I have not tried it but there are a few threads on this site worth looking at. Search Tailscale. Google it as well. CGNAT Tailscale. This is a place to start: What is a tailnet? · Tailscale
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Yes I believe tailscale is a popular choice for cgnat. You may broaden your user base if you ask starlink customers too, thats cgnat too. Now I wonder if anybody can figure out how to use Tailscale alomg side a commercial vpn for privacy such as PIA. I cant figure out how to split tunnel it.
This is good to know, I did not even realize this was a thing and I was contemplating switching to the Verizon 5G once I can get a 5G signal in my house, since its 1/4 the price of Spectrum and even with only 4G has a faster upload speed.
Sounds like this makes hosting anything from your home network very difficult, since I assume you cannot "poke holes" in the firewall to open it up for specific services?
You can setup a subnet which is just a click. It will put everything on your domain into the tailscale vpn (they suggest installing tailscale on all devices that are capable). Additionally you can dedicate a machine as an exit node if you want which will route all your traffic in and out of your local through it. I get the feeling my desire to have Tailscale and a private vpn lies within this option but im not smart enough to figure it out.
Anybody reading this thread a PIA VPN user? They support split tunnel but I cant figure it out because basically nothing shows up in my split tunnel list in the app on android.
Just a side note:
If you can present a business (EIN) to T-Mobile and get their Biz 5G you can get around their CGNAT. Pricing is not too much different than the Home offering except they've got that $25 Home deal (w/ a cell line) right now.
And actually I thought the lack of that was the differentiator between T-Mobile Home and Verizon Home.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobileisp/comments/zavz6a/business_internet/
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Honestly it is so the exact opposite regarding tailscale difficulty. It scared me how simple it was, figured it cant be working. It really is zero configuration.
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I have Verizon 5G home internet and was able to put the modem into bridge mode.
Also check out ngrok.com for their gnat solution
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