What is Special Applications?

[Pipebomb]

Hi there. I have this very weird Huawei LTE Router and I'm trying to port forward on it. (I dont know how common it is to have LTE as your primary internet connection but I cant seem to figure this out.)

I cant find "Port Forward" anywhere on my router's gateway. The closest thing I found was "Virtual Servers" and "Special Applications". I doubt virtual servers will work for port forwarding games like GTA 5, CS:GO etc... but I believe "Special Applications" can. I just don't understand anything when it comes to networking and port forwarding. So I linked a screenshot of the "Special Applications" page on my router, hopefully you guys can understand.

(I don't get horrible ping, 'around 60ms on CS', I do get a stable connection but I'm always stuck with a Strict NAT)

http://imgur.com/a/B6NT9

 

[jsmithepa]

Different vendors call it by different names, u just have to keep clicking until at some point it asks for ports and UDP/TCP, server/host IP, BAM!

 

[bill001g]

In most cases mobile broadband runs carrier NAT. You will get a IP in the 100.64.0.0/10 range. Some use the private 10.x.x.x range. So you need to look at the wan IP your routers is getting. Since this nat is done in a router controlled by the ISP you can not do port forwarding.

Some ISP can give you a actual routable IP for a extra monthly fee. Maybe you get lucky and you ISP is one of the rare ones that uses routable ip but the most common is to use a carrier NAT type of IP.

The only solution to carrier NAT is to use a VPN to a vpn provider that will give you a fixed IP. They allow all traffic to come into that IP so then the trickly part is to do the same port forwarding mess unless you can install the VPN client directly on the end device.