topic Re: Port Forwarding EE Smart Hub for Foundry VTT in Mobile Broadband

Port Forwarding EE Smart Hub for Foundry VTT

Mr64 — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:15:38 GMT

I recently switched from 3 to EE for my mobile broadband (5G EE Smart Hub), but I can't seem to get the port forwarding to work. I host virtual tabletop via foundry vtt, and was able to set this up pretty easily when I was on 3 and can't figure out what's stopping it on EE. The setup should be simple, so I'm wondering if there's something additional I'm missing/overlooking in setting this up.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Re: Port Forwarding EE Smart Hub for Foundry VTT

JimM11 — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:35:24 GMT

@Mr64 You would be better to post this in the Mobile Broadband section of the Forum, you may get better response from there.

Re: Port Forwarding EE Smart Hub for Foundry VTT

Mr64 — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:49:19 GMT

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Re: Port Forwarding EE Smart Hub for Foundry VTT

XRaySpeX — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 14:10:42 GMT

@Mr64 : I can't see Port Forwarding working on the EE mobile network, even when you employ a DDNS.

You are finding yourself up against a limitation of EE's mobile network. The EE mobile network uses Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) resulting in a double NAT, which games consoles often object to, which means you don't get your own public IP address but share it with other users. So you can't be uniquely id'ed on the Net & therefore your LAN cannot be addressed from outside for unsolicited accesses. This is unlike fixed BB.

If this occurs there is nowt you can do to avoid it.