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What the hell Proton! (r.nf)
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[โ€“] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only thing you need to say is "my ISP uses CGNAT" you can't host anything or run games for your friends without a way to punch through the CGNAT layer. I mean you could use IPv6 if it weren't still a joke in the US but here we are.

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Yup, CGNAT sucks. But STUN works fine for me, and most games support it, so it's not a huge issue.

I could pay extra for a public IP, but for the same price I can get a VPS and do other cool stuff, so I just went the WireGuard VPN route. Same end result with a little more latency, but also more flexibility. I host a few static sites directly on the VPS, with everything else going through the VPN, so that's nice.