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PS4 hotspot issue

Umzy93
Explorer

Hi,

I recently got a new iPhone with an unlimited 5g data plan. I was hoping to hotspot my PS4 with it to get faster connection speeds, however I get a NAT3 connection type and pretty slow speeds when I connect to the hotspot. 

Can anyone give some advice on how to improve this?

Thanks

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Umzy93
Explorer

Hi,

I recently got a new iPhone with an unlimited 5g data plan. I was hoping to hotspot my PS4 with it to get faster connection speeds, however I get a NAT3 connection type and pretty slow speeds when I connect to the hotspot. 

Can anyone give some advice on how to improve this?

Thanks

XRaySpeX
Grand Master
Grand Master

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 xBoxes 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.

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