Pro: 1Gb upload and download speeds on free Internet provided by the HOA. Con: As a self hoster, I have zero control over it. No port forwarding, no DMZ, no bridge mode. It’s Starbucks free WiFi with a wired connection.
Option A: Buy Google Fiber and don’t use free Internet. Option B: Create some elaborate tunnel through a VPS.
My public self hosted activities are fairly low bandwidth (password manager, SSH). I have a vague idea that I could point my domain to a low cost VPS that has a VPN tunnel into my home network for any incoming connection needs. That may require me to fill in port forwards on both systems but whatever. Tailscale is serving most of my remote needs but I still need a few ports. This does not fix the issue of online gaming port forwards (Nintendo Switch online requires a huge forwarded range for best performance) but oh well for now.
UPDATE: I think they’re using this system. https://www.cambiumnetworks.com/markets/multi-family-living/ The personal Wi-Fi overview makes it clear each AP is given it’s own VLAN which sounds a whole lot like the whole building is sharing one IP and there’s no way I’m going to get my own Internet access. They even detail how you can roam the building and maintain your WiFi connection across your neighbor’s and the common areas APs. This is the IPV4 future.
Haven’t had to use port forwarding for gaming in like 30 or so years, so I just looked up Nintendo’s website…
Within the port range, enter the starting port and the ending port to forward. For the Nintendo Switch console, this is port 1024 through 65535
LMAO, no thanks, that’s not happening.
For your question, you could likely route everything through a tunnel and manage the port forwarding on the other end of the tunnel.
I actually gave it 44000-65535 and it’s connecting well. That’s another reason why I wanted a more robust network: IOT VLAN to segregate that risk.
It’s not self-hosted, but Tailscale funnels are also an option.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| AP | WiFi Access Point |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IoT | Internet of Things for device controllers |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| PoE | Power over Ethernet |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
11 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 12 acronyms.
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Option A modified: get a router, install OpenWRT, install wireguard, get a VPS, create a tunnel, profit
If they’re providing IPv6 to you, port forwarding shouldn’t be necessary most of the time for online gaming.
Are they allowing UPnP upstream?
Assuming the Switch supports ipv6, and given how backward Nintendo’s tech tends to be, it wouldn’t surprise me if they didn’t.
Although at least nintendo.com has an AAAA record.
