Work around with Vodafone Gigacube

[xraycat87]

Hello,

I've ordered Vodafone Gigacube as the area I'm in has a capacity issue and adsl is around 1-2mb.

I'm getting between 20-30mb with the cube which is fine for me, for now anyway, but the Nat type is strict. There's tons of threads about this and no work around voda will offer due to how they assign ip addresses

But I do have an option to use a vpn on the router. Never used one like this before, but would that allow me to work around the strict Nat type. Would I see a chunk of speed lost etc.

I did try 3 which offered an open Nat but sadly top speeds are 4mb as only 3g in the area for them.

 

[bremen1874]

but would that allow me to work around the strict Nat type

Should do. You'll be on carrier-grade NAT and a VPN will give you a routable IP. You'll still have the usual VPN problems if what you're connecting to doesn't like VPNs and detects that you're using one.

Would I see a chunk of speed lost etc

Yes, no, maybe.

It'll cost you virtually nothing to try it.

 

[xraycat87]

Should do. You'll be on carrier-grade NAT and a VPN will give you a routable IP. You'll still have the usual VPN problems if what you're connecting to doesn't like VPNs and detects that you're using one.


Yes, no, maybe.

It'll cost you virtually nothing to try it.

Any recommendations for a vpn. I'm based between Nottingham and Sheffield.

 

[bremen1874]

Not really. There's a dedicated VPN thread on here somewhere.

 

[~cw]

Use a VPN provider which supports Wireguard if you can find one, Mullvad support it as do TorGuard and a few others. Much less speed loss from VPN protocol overheads than OpenVPN in many cases. I have Wireguard set up on my phone for when I'm on 4G or untrusted networks, speeds are almost identical as going direct and It Just Works.