> I thought it was still considered essential everywhere to at least be able to connect to your personal IP address from the internet for personal usage. Yes!

> I thought it was still considered essential everywhere to at least be able to connect to your personal IP address from the internet for personal usage. Yes! CGN, asymmetric bandwidth plans, dynamic IP addresses, they're all treating the customer as a consumer. As if it's just a cable hookup. It's a shame, really. CGN shouldn't exist. UDP "hole-punching" would still work with CGN, but in most cases you would need cooperation of a third party. There are also trickier ways like what samy.pl/pwnat does. I'm on FIOS in NYC now, but when I was on optimum and spectrum they both gave me IPv6 delegations and, as far as I could tell, they never changed. Honestly I would not have switched to FIOS in hindsight -- it's not much better and I don't think I'll ever have IPv6 :(.