Question Network drive usage with 5g network routers ( gateways)

[eogutveren]

Hi, I just started to use 5g home Internet with T-Mobile. Their gateway doesn't have a network drive connection, I connected my Linksys router to the T-Mobile 5g gateway with Ethernet cable and everything works except my network drive ( connected to Linksys router). In the lan side I can connect to the network drive but I can't find a way to make a external FTP connection to it on the Internet. Anyone has a working way for this? Thanks in advance.

 

[lantis3]

5G home internet uses IPv6. It will not have a public usable IPv4 address and let you do port forwarding.
https://community.t-mobile.com/gate...te-ip-network-address-from-192-168-12-x-52519
T-mobile home internet is hard to work with. https://community.t-mobile.com/gate...ge-the-ip-to-other-ip-than-192-168-12-x-40832

Haven't touch FTP for years. Not familiar with IPv6 either. Your Linksys probably support OpenVPN, but it's hard to setup and configure it.

What I will do is:

• Run Linksys router in AP mode, set a static IP (192.168.12.x), turn off its DHCP server and link the linksys router to T-mobile router using one of Linksys's LAN port. (not WAN)
• You probably need a mini pc / raspberry pi to run ZeroTier / Tailscale on it to create a VPN first so your devices can talk to each other remotely, however don't think ZeroTier / Tailscale can run on your Linksys router.
• Run a software FTP server on the mini pc / raspberry pi
• Your remote devices also run ZeroTier/Tailscale and use assigned IPv4 address or device/computer name to access the minic pc's FTP server.
• ZeroTier/Tailscale use UDP and no firewall/port forwarding required.
• Many ZeroTier / Tailscale tutorials on YT.

Other members/moderators might have better ideas.