[arm-allstar] Allstar on TMO Home Internet?

[Patrick Perdue]

Just to add to this:

  I just pinged my friend's clear node from the machine hosting the VPN 
server it is connected to, and got these results, which are very 
respectable for a 5g connection, so latency and jitter aren't a problem 
here.

32 packets transmitted, 32 received, 0% packet loss
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 14.527/17.101/24.004/2.026 ms


73
N2DYI
On 5/10/2023 8:24 PM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> Speed is not the issue, just wondering about port forwarding etc.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Greg Stahlman  KJ6KO
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