Re: House WiFi - a Fact I wasn't aware of!
Re: House WiFi - a Fact I wasn't aware of!
You mention CCTV. For that to work from outside your home network you'd need what are called P2P cameras - they establish a link to a third party server and you connect to them through that. This is because mobile phone internet access is what is known as NATted - many users have the same public IP so you can't set up an open port and use a DDNS service to connect to the cameras. I could do that for my CCTV but there is no solution for my webserver. As the sites I run on it are primarily private usage I could use free web hosting but that tends to be slow and unreliable.Re: House WiFi - a Fact I wasn't aware of!
Re: House WiFi - a Fact I wasn't aware of!
Here is an answer to CCTV on an EE home connection. It uses different acronyms but the answer is the same - it won't work and other mobile operators will probably be the same.Re: House WiFi - a Fact I wasn't aware of!
Re: House WiFi - a Fact I wasn't aware of!
It's only might not rather than will not. There is a good chance yours will be P2P as you'd never heard of DDNS and they may well be OK.Re: House WiFi - a Fact I wasn't aware of!
Re: House WiFi - a Fact I wasn't aware of!
I was with VM for maybe 3 years. The problem their technology faces is limited bandwidth for upload. The limited local bandwith is typically shared by 100 or so users and if they are doing normal things like browsing the internet, gaming or watching youtube or catchup TV there isn't usually much of a problem but should you have a couple of 24x7 seeders of torrents nearby they can easily saturate the upstream. If that happens then everybody on their little segment of the VM network suffers and suffers badly. They can also simply add too many customers into your area. Should either happen then regardless of what you are paying for you'll probably be down to single digit speeds and they can take an age to correct the problem.Re: House WiFi - a Fact I wasn't aware of!
Re: House WiFi - a Fact I wasn't aware of!
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