EE mobile broadband + Xbox

[JoePatching]

Has anyone used the small little 4G/5G mobile broadband boxes connected to their Xbox? Looking at getting one as wifi isn’t the greatest but it is also not my house so cannot change provider. Will the box work like a good wifi network would or will I run into any problems?

[XRaySpeX]

You potentially might find 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.

IMHO EE the mobile network is not really suitable for gaming.