[arm-allstar] Allstar on TMO Home Internet?

[Patrick Perdue]

Greg:

As with any of these types of services, YMMV.

I have a friend on the west coast with T-Mobile Home Internet who has no 
troubles with Allstarlink at all, and another on the east coast with a 
ton of them, despite generally OK service with other stuff.

I ended up installing a Wireguard VPN client on his clear node to both 
work around the port forwarding problem, as well as provide generally 
better service, as even when he could establish a direct node 
connection, it was unusably bad, constant packet loss, etc. until the 
VPN connection happened.

We ran into things like outbound connections timing out due to 
incredibly long hangtimes before a DNS query would get resolved, and 
other weirdness that the VPN endpoint running on a $5 Linode VPS fixed. 
He now has very solid audio ,and can accept direct incoming node 
connections if needed, though he is behind carrier-grade NAT.

I put a macro on the node so he can toggle the VPN connection easily 
from DTMF or Supermon. That was a while ago, so I don't know if the VPN 
is strictly necessary anymore for general use.

HTH.

73

N2DYI


On 5/10/2023 5:40 PM, Greg Stahlman via ARM-allstar wrote:
> Anyone tried or done it on T-Mobile Home Internet?
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> Speed is not the issue, just wondering about port forwarding etc.
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