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[aesmith]

[meritez]

Yes, RWG unlimited data sim until December.

[celso]

[Alex Atkin UK]

I found on SMARTY you can still use the 3internet APN and get a public IP address.

Nope I was wrong, it IS CG-NAT, I always get confused by the fact the mobile networks don't use the official CGNAT range.

[aesmith]

- Only Three offers a fixed IP was far as I'm aware. Everyone else (even Three's virtual networks/MVNOs) uses CGNAT. Some (EE) give you an IPV6, but V4 is CGNAT.

- Some EE MVNOs don't have access to every band. Plusnet, RWG, Lyca, etc, don't have access to band 20. Not that it helps a lot with speeds, but that's all that you get in some areas.

Thanks I used Smarty at first initially because I wasn't sure how we'd get on. At some point their CGNAT got a lot more aggressive, changing IP mid connection which upset some things including PayPal, and the work CRM system. By then we'd been using it as our main home Internet for two years so I was happy to take a 12 month contract with Three and benefit from the real IP.

Reason for looking elsewhere is that service has gone downhill. Normally we were on Band 20 from a last around 6km away with clear line of sight and that was solid for several years. But more recently sometimes that last goes offline for a week or months at a time. When it does i get Band 3 from a similar distance but there's a metal barn in the way so the signal is poor.

[aesmith]

I found on SMARTY you can still use the 3internet APN and get a public IP address.
Nope I was wrong, it IS CG-NAT, I always get confused by the fact the mobile networks don't use the official CGNAT range.

I read that Smarty doesn't care what you put for APN,  could be anything. I can't remember if I tested that idea.

[Alex Atkin UK]

I read that Smarty doesn't care what you put for APN,  could be anything. I can't remember if I tested that idea.

You could be right with that too.  Usually switching APNs I would see different speeds, they seemed the same the last I checked.

Well that was amusing.  Just ran speedtest.net and it says "we've done it, thanks for helping us reach 50 billion speed tests".