I am strongly considering purchasing an invisagig modem for several reasons. One of them in I use T-mobile home internet and DirectTV stream. My direct tv plan allows 20 connections on my “home” network and only 2 when I am off network. The problem I have is that every time my modem reboots or just sometimes occasionally, I will get a new IP which I know is expected behavior. This in turns causes me to have to update my home settings with direct tv if I want to watch shows on more than 2 tvs in my house. I can reset it 4 times a year, which is nowhere near enough. Im looking at using the invisagig with IP passthrough to my Eero pro system and a ddns service to help with tracking that IP address. I know this will work for things like serving PLEX, etc. Will it work for the direct tv IP as well? Thanks for any and all advice here…I’m tired of calling Direct tv …
Hello,
IP passthrough is turned on by default on InvisaGig, and this works very well for our customers.
The IP address and DDNS usage is being mis-defined in usage for many. DDNS does not work behind CGNAT, regardless of what any youtuber may say.
The IP address that gets relayed is a private IP, thus not accessible by any service.
If you apply for a static public IP from your cell carrier, applied to your account/SIM, then this is totally different and makes DDNS non useful as well since the IP is static and publicly addressable.
You can fix this with either a local VPN service (VPS) that you have a public static IP assignment for and route only your DirectTV traffic over the VPN, or get a public static IP assignment from your carrier.
There are other more complex ways with more feature controls and fun stuff, like our article here: How to Get a Public IP for Open NAT, Plex, etc. Using pfSense & WireGuard … but again, using a VPN service.
Thank you for your answer! I’ve been going through the scenarios and didn’t feel like that solution would work, but I ended up getting myself confused and thought I would ask the pros. I’m still thinking I will get the invisigig, but more for the extra features and speed increases. Thanks!!