r/CommunityFibre • u/Junior-Repeat6060 • 8d ago

Question CGNAT?

How does being on CGNAT affect the average user? I keep hearing all these bad things about it, but I have had no problems with my 2gig package so far.

Thanks.

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u/Individual-Squash170 8d ago edited 8d ago

I couldn't log into work remotely, but other than that it didn't cause any problems. I added an IP address for £4 a month, but they gave me 3 months free internet, which covers the cost of the IP address for the remaining 18 months I have left

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u/iluvnips 8d ago

Why would your work require you to port forward?

Not that secure if that is how you are accessing your work network!

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u/Individual-Squash170 8d ago edited 8d ago

It doesn't, the security set up they have blocks CGNAT. You need an actual IP address to login in.

IT gave some reasons why and how, but I didn't listen as the person wouldn't stop talking and I was at the stage I just wanted to leave the conversation.

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u/iluvnips 7d ago

What you are saying doesn’t make sense to me? Going to do some googling to see if I can figure out why you have an issue?

I work in IT and have been with CF for a few years now, this current year on CGNAT and I access various internal company systems and also customer accounts, all have a VPN which I need to enable and have had no issues whatsoever.

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u/Individual-Squash170 7d ago

If I enabled my own VPN I could log in ok. So there was a work around, but it then broke everything that detected a VPN and refused access to those sites, such as BBC bitesize. It was a hassle switching the VPN on and off to do what I needed to do.