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The Afflicted
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PostPosted: 04-08-2016 06:23 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hi there folks!

I live in the sticks and it took me ten years to get something other than dial-up or sat. I finally got fiber which I will never speak poorly of but my ISP has us behind a NAT, so I don't have an IP to call my own. I've not been able to host a Q3 server for years because of that.

I'm wondering if there's an inexpensive way to set up a tunnel or VPN that would allow me to route the server traffic through it. If anyone has any suggestions or experience on matters such as this, I'd love to hear them!

Thanks for your time!



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Elite
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PostPosted: 04-08-2016 07:05 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Signup for a Dynanic DNS from say:
Dyndns, Noip or the like and use the DNS name to connect.

Done!




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The Afflicted
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PostPosted: 04-10-2016 06:07 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Thanks amidy,

It's been a long time since I used DDNS, but I don't think that will work. The issue isn't that I have a dynamic IP, it's that I share the same external IP with hundreds/thousands of other people due to the ISP's NAT'ed firewall.



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PostPosted: 04-15-2016 06:01 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Ohhh really....

So you're internally NAT'd behind their gateway? that's a little messed up...

I think the only way around that would be to VPN tunnel and connect via that.... but even then its a little tough.




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PostPosted: 04-16-2016 04:36 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


AmIdYfReAk wrote:
Ohhh really....

So you're internally NAT'd behind their gateway? that's a little messed up...

I think the only way around that would be to VPN tunnel and connect via that.... but even then its a little tough.


That's it exactly, unfortunately. I've got limited experience with tunneling through one of my web servers, but I've always had problems assigning and retaining ports. I was hoping there was some software development that would help. I thought maybe someone might have developed something to allow it, like music placeshifting or these newer games that have it baked in.



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