Wireless ISP issues - help required

Barno

Barno

Barno

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Hi,

I have an ongoing issue that I hope someone can shed some light on. My current situation is this:

I live in a rural area that didn't, until recently, have wired internet access. Unofrtunately my landlord insists on sticking with the old wireless provider so theres nothing I can do about that. Now, the service they provide is pretty fast however the issue I have is with how the network is set up.

The signal is beamed out from nearby mast and picked up by a box (AP, router?) attached to the side of the house which then comes into the house via ethenet and it is this which I connect to the eth0 on my Edgerouter X.

Now everything functions as it should except I have trouble connecting to people on the Playstation 4. I believe this is due to a possible double NAT on the network although it happens even when I plug my PS4 directly into the ethernet box and take my own home network out of the equation.

I have emailed them about this issue, mentioning the ports then PS4 needs open, to which I recieved this response:

'The ports the list refers to are outgoing ports, there are no filters at all on any outgoing ports on our network . Our network has a 'related' firewall rule which means it will accept incoming traffic that relates to an outgoing connection. This covers 99.9% of requirements.'

Now I don't have any access to their side of this network, I only have control over things inside my home, and I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice on how I can elimiate these connection issues? It's normally when I'm trying to connect to people in games that use P2P networking, server based games on my PC are fine.

Apologies for the long message, this has been going on for a long time now and I've never actually been able to get to the bottom of it. I've tried port forwarding, DMZ, UPnP2 although my limited knowlege of networking means I'm not sure if I set these up correctly, or if they would even make a difference.

Would really appreciate any help on this. Thanks!
 
Thanks for the reply mate.

This is the provider: http://www.kijoma.net

If I do a whatsmyip check this is what comes up:



And not sure if this is any help but this is my current setup on the Edgerouter:



From doing an ipconfig it looks like the address of my PC is 192.168.1.38 and my PS4 has a static IP of 192.168.1.44.
 
You're double-NATed.

I'm not really sure that your landlord can legally insist that you have to use the wireless ISP either, though I'm not a lawyer, and as with all things landlord related it doesn't often matter what is legal because the end result of being right is that you're evicted anyway.
 
Thanks for clarifying that Caged. Good to know what the issue is. Someone else suggested using a VPN to get round this, could that work?
 
I don't know if your Edgerouter X can act as a VPN client thus putting every device on your network through the VPN (this has disadvantages too) but if not then some old second hand router off eBay with Merlin/Tomato firmware on it could probably do for testing. Or else perhaps introduce a Raspberry Pi onto your network with an OpenVPN client and route the PS4 through that. Substitute IoT for PS4 and this guide at a cursory glance looks like the sort of thing to try: https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/h...-with-raspberry-pi-pia-routertraffic-0179986/
 
The problem with a VPN is that you have to break that tunnel out somewhere. Using many VPN providers or cloud services will just get you kicked off whatever service you're trying to use.
 
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