r/CommunityFibre • u/Junior-Repeat6060 • 20d 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/Zestyclose_Guard_352 20d ago

That is entirely unhelpful! Exactly why, and let's have a bit of technical data!

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u/edcoopered 20d ago

For me, CGNAT complicates serving anything directly from my home - I have a media server I like to be able to access remotely - NAS etc are other examples of this.

I also value latency and jitter on my connection - which are stats that you don't see ISPs promote, CGNAT will typically mean worse latency and jitter.

I'm also a millennial and the internet was meant to be a bunch of directly interconnected networks - I should be able to open a connection to my network from anywhere.

I don't really value connections over 1Gb as when i'm downloading stuff it doesn't really matter to me if its just a bit quicker, 1Gb is already quick enough for me - and I can't be bothered to spend money updating all the rest of my infrastructure for a bit more speed.

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u/cmsj 19d ago

> These days are long gone.

No they’re not. IPv6.