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Spectrum Community WiFi (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi All,

Xpost from c/[email protected]

So since Reddit is out for me, I’m turning here to see if anyone has some insight or can comment on this. Anything you’ve got would be great!

Long and short, I made a quick decision and am now living in a “Spectrum Community” - whereby tenants are charged a fixed rate for Internet and TV and connect to a “mesh” network via captive portal where MAC addresses must be registered to the tennants. Everyone shares the same network, sorta, but it’s got that feature where no one can sniff each other (unless MAC addresses are registered to your name).

There’s some debate on posts regarding this, whether connecting your own gateway will cause an issue, but I would like to connect my own gateway / router. Now, I’d also like to port forward, as I run my own mail server, etc… which need this and a public IP address I can register with my domain in order for all the fun stuff to work.

I doubt I can connect the gateway / router and port forward as if the community were offering a “communal modem”, so the question becomes:

Can I defeat this “double NAT” by routing all traffic from MY gateway through a VPS? Then, can I tie my domain / proxy service to the public IP address of this VPS to make all my services work?

Other services I run: PiHole Unbound DNS resolving Emby Wireguard (for mobile access to PiHole) And other web based services

Again, thanks. Hopefully someone reads this and knows what I’m talking about. I believe in Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Personally I use tailscale which should punch through double NAT. It's a wire guard based mesh VPN, but an exit node should make it a normal VPN