Why “cgnat” is being discussed
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Huge asymmetries both in bandwidth and capability between up and downstream. A lot of US users are still on DOCSIS, a lot of users worldwide behind CGNAT (less of an issue with…
by hnav · Oct 30, 2026
No? It wouldn't be taking this long if they could do that. The problem in this thread stems entirely from v4: they're being moved onto CGNAT (which is NATed v4), because the v4…
by Dagger2 · Oct 30, 2026
Your greedy ISP won't provide you with IPv6 for financial reasons - it's cheaper not to change or upgrade systems. This won't change until they start to provide you with IPv6 fo…
by lambdaone · Oct 30, 2026
The US is already 55% IPv6, and this figure is only going to go up in future as ISPs decide to migrate their network cores to IPv6 for financial reasons, making IPv4 a lower-per…
by lambdaone · Oct 30, 2026
In my experience they charge for a static IP but not to turn off CGNAT. Obviously depends on the isp but I’ve tried a few. One of them I had to call phone support and they asked…
by Gigachad · Oct 30, 2026
On IPv4 with CGNAT you get blocked and sent millions of captchas because you are sharing an IP with 5 IoT devices actively running a botnet. On v6 you don’t have that problem.
by Gigachad · Oct 30, 2026
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