Subj : Re: Echolink and Metronet
To   : Brian Indy
From : Nigel Reed
Date : Tue Feb 22 2022 04:01 pm

On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 22:11:06 -0500
"Brian Indy" <brian.indy@1:229/426.31> wrote:

> Just found out something today, I recently switched to Metronet
> fiber, and my Echolink program stopped working. So I went in to the
> router and tried to setup port forwarding, it would not work. Tried
> it many times, same bad result. Called Metronet...unless you buy a
> static IP for $120 a year, you can't port forward.  Metronet uses
> something called CGNAT - Carrier Grade NAT  and this is why you can't
> port forward using their dynamic assigned external IP. 
> 
> I wish I had known that before. I don't use echolink much. So I'm not
> paying $120 for a static IP from Metronet. 
> 
> Just a heads up. 

If you happen to have a unix server vps somewhere, could you do a ssh
tunnel and proxy your connection through it?
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