[clug] 4G internet

[Adrian Blake]

Thanks all for your replies

Adrian

On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 at 10:37, Kathy Reid via linux <linux at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> It's also worth checking the MTU of the interface.
>
> I recently had a problem where I had to drop the MTU of my wlo1
> interface to 1100 from the default of 1500 while I was tethered to my
> phone, otherwise the packet loss would not let me ssh to a host while
> tethered. Once I dropped the MTU, ssh negotiation proceeded correctly.
>
> Related:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1874257
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Kathy
>
>
> On 12/7/20 4:24 pm, Bob Edwards via linux wrote:
> > My strategy is to rent a VPS with a fixed IP (hosted in Sydney - I think
> > you can get them in Canberra as well now - not sure how competitive the
> > pricing is though) and then use OpenVPN. The clients (be they 4G, NBN
> > or "free WiFi" etc.) then connect to my VPS and I connect to it from
> > whereever I am to get to any/all ports I need.
> >
> > DigitalOcean have some good articles on setting up OpenVPN on various
> > host OSs.
> >
> > In your case, the modem is getting a private IP (RFC1918) address from
> > your ISP, but it is being NAT'd to a public IP address by the time that
> > "whatsmyip" can see it - hence the two different IPs.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Bob Edwards.
> >
> > On 11/7/20 7:39 pm, Adrian Blake via linux wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> Not linux related but why can I not connect  to my devices remotely when
> >> their router has only a 4G connection to the Internet, via Telstra.
> >> whatismyip.com shows one IP address (1.129.???.???) and yet the modem
> >> reports a different IP address (10.121.???.???), neither work.
> >> I think I have correctly setup the port forwarding which I setup on a
> >> different modem/router that used a wireless connection to the Internet.
> >>
> >> Adrian
> >>
> >
>
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