09-30-2023 02:26 PM
I have a strange situation. I live out in the country so we have very limited ISP options. Right now I am using AT&T Business fiber service and paying $605.84 per month for a 50/50MB service and a public IP address. Right now this all works great. I was even supplying Internet to six of my neighbors for the past 4 years and everyone was mostly happy. *AT&T residential service is not available for us.
Well as things change, I lost two neighbors to T-Mobile home Internet service for $50 per month and unlimited data usage. This means the for the four remaining users our share of the monthly service is $150ish. They all say that is just too much give the T-Mobile and Starlink options.
I tried the T-Mobile service and it does work fairly well. The problem is that I cannot get the unlimited data plan for the business service at my location and though it says 40-56Mbs download speeds, compared to the AT&T, its not.
I need the Business service from T-Mobile because that is the only service that they have where I can get a public IP address.
So, why do I need a public IP address? Two reasons. I use the CME part of my 2901 to make business calls from home as I do work from home and the VoIP service REQUIRES a public IPv4 address. If I use a private IP address service, I can hear the caller but the caller cannot hear me. Somehow the RTP packets must be getting lost when on a private IP address.
The second reason is that I run a small FTP server for my customers. This server sees very little usage to a 5-10Mbs upload speed is fine.
So unless I can find a solution to the RTP packets being lost and the FTP server access, I must have a Public IP address.
There are several VPN services that will provide you with a public IP address but thus far only PureVPN seems to have a possible way to connect their service directly to a Cisco 2900 device via the PTPP or OpenVPN protocol. At this time I do not have any VPN service to test.
Do you know of a good VPN service that I can program right on my router wo provide it a public IP address so that my VoIP service will work? And of course, do you have the configuration to get it all working?
PS: I do have an ASA-5506x and a ASA-5510 SecPlus that we could use if needed. BUT... I would need full configuration help on those as I do not know anything about those devices.
Thank in advance ---Michael
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