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.

73

Regards,
Brian Franklin
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Hello Brian,

16 Feb 22 22:11, you wrote to All:

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.

Thanks for the warning. CGNAT is one of the huge drawbacks of IPv6 and one of the many reasons why I am not a fan of IPv6. I am using Spectrum that still uses IPv4 with NAT which means they can support a LOT of internal IPv4 customers easily. I have a pfSense box as my edge firewall device that does the port forwarding stuff.

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.

Why in the hell they want $120 for a single static IP on an IPv6 network is beyond me. Considering IPv6 can supposedly support 340 trillion trillion trillion IP addresses, giving someone one static IP shouldn't be much. Sounds like their main "front end" to the internet is IPv4 and they have very limited IPv4 addresses available to them.

What's your call, BTW?

-- Sean

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Hi Brian,
how about tethering you cellphone to the PC just for echolink.
Once done, unhook and use the Metronet again.
Just my 5 cents

73 de KF5WGB
Ral Voepel

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.

73

Regards, Brian Franklin
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//Hello Sean,//

on *17.02.22* at *3:18:41* You wrote in area *HAM*
to *Brian Indy* about *"Echolink and Metronet"*.

Why in the hell they want $120 for a single static IP on an IPv6 network is
beyond me. Considering IPv6 can supposedly support 340 trillion trillion trillion IP addresses, giving someone one static IP shouldn't be much. Sounds
like their main "front end" to the internet is IPv4 and they have very limited IPv4 addresses available to them.

That's exactly the reason. They don't have a giant pile of IP4 addresses to use.
They said I could just pay $10 a month for the static IP. Hey now that's a real discount.

What's your call, BTW?

Sorry.

de KB9BVN

Brian
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Re: Echolink and Metronet
By: Sean Dennis to Brian Indy on Wed Feb 16 2022 10:18 pm

Thanks for the warning. CGNAT is one of the huge drawbacks of IPv6 and one of the many reasons why I am not a fan of IPv6. I am

Why in the hell they want $120 for a single static IP on an IPv6 network is beyond me. Considering IPv6 can supposedly support 340
trillion trillion trillion IP addresses, giving someone one static IP shouldn't be much. Sounds like their main "front end" to the
internet is IPv4 and they have very limited IPv4 addresses available to them.

I'm thinking you've got confused.

CGNAT is an IPv4 solution due to the lack of IPv4 addresses - where the answer is IPv6 isnt it?

I've not heard of ISP's selling single static IPv6 addresses - I thought most gave you a /64, /60 or /56 as part of the service you get with them.


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Hello Brian,

17 Feb 22 02:11, you wrote to me:

That's exactly the reason. They don't have a giant pile of IP4
addresses to use. They said I could just pay $10 a month for the
static IP. Hey now that's a real discount.

They said this -after- telling you it was $120 as month? Spectrum won't give you a static IP unless you have Spectrum Business (which, for what I am doing, would be worth the cost).

ISP are real sleazeballs these days. I remember the nascent days of the public Internet where you had neighborhood ISPs before they all got bought up.

-- Sean KS4TD

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Hello deon,

17 Feb 22 20:47, you wrote to me:

CGNAT is an IPv4 solution due to the lack of IPv4 addresses - where
the answer is IPv6 isnt it?

Yes, you're right. I stand corrected.

I've not heard of ISP's selling single static IPv6 addresses - I
thought most gave you a /64, /60 or /56 as part of the service you get with them.

I wouldn't know. Here in the US, it is exceedingly difficult to find a large ISP that supports IPv6. All of the large ISPs have a significant investment in IPv4 with NAT/CGNAT and are -very- hesitant to change.

It's so much so that all of my computers have IPv6 disabled as there's no need for it right now.

A side note: here's an interesting opinion article about why IPv6 hasn't had wide adoption yet in the past 25 years of its existance: https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/24/opinion_column_ipv6/

This is quickly becoming off-topic so netmail is welcome or we can move this somewhere else.

Are you an amateur radio operator?

-- Sean KS4TD

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Re: Echolink and Metronet
By: Sean Dennis to Brian KB9BVN on Thu Feb 17 2022 10:13 am

ISP are real sleazeballs these days. I remember the nascent days of the public Internet where you had neighborhood ISPs before they all got bought

Yeah, before AOL bpught all of them.

-N4DLT
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Hello Gate,

18 Feb 22 11:02, you wrote to me:

Yeah, before AOL bpught all of them.

It wasn't just AOL. Earthlink bought a lot of ISPs too.

-- Sean

... Beauty times brains equals a constant.
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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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On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:13:21 -0500
"Sean Dennis" <sean.dennis@1:18/200> wrote:

Hello Brian,

17 Feb 22 02:11, you wrote to me:

That's exactly the reason. They don't have a giant pile of IP4
addresses to use. They said I could just pay $10 a month for the
static IP. Hey now that's a real discount.

They said this -after- telling you it was $120 as month? Spectrum
won't give you a static IP unless you have Spectrum Business (which,
for what I am doing, would be worth the cost).

ISP are real sleazeballs these days. I remember the nascent days of
the public Internet where you had neighborhood ISPs before they all
got bought up.

back in England, Demon Internet would provide every user with a static
IP with their 10 quid a month internet service. You were expected to run
an smtp server and they would "store and forward" you emails. They had a software package to do all that and it was actually pretty neat, all integrated.
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Hello Brian,

17 Feb 22 02:11, you wrote to me:

They said this -after- telling you it was $120 as month? Spectrum
won't give you a static IP unless you have Spectrum Business (which,
for what I am doing, would be worth the cost).

Not to but in, I have a static Ip with Spectrum and I dont have a
business account and I belive my bill for just internet is about 90.00
I get about 430mbps down and 21 up.
Sam


Bye for now...
Sam

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