Is Viaero Wireless CGNAT?

Len,

Can you give an update on your progress, please? Did you get it working using Softether? I’m late to the thread. Sorry. My insights would be relative to using ZeroTier because that’s the VPN product I’m using. I suspect the results would be similar. I am presently using a WISP which has CGNAT but luckily offers static I.P.’s for $10 a month. That connection works great but is expensive ($80/month). Meanwhile I tried to get a cellular mobile hotspot with CGNAT working because it was cheaper. Pertaining to the mobile hotspot, what works for me is using Windows Remote Desktop to a pc at the remote site, over ZeroTier. Then run SmartSDR on the site pc when you’re RDP’ed in. (This is the Mike Walker preferred method ). I have not been able to get Smartlink to work over ZeroTier. I suspect the broadcast or multi cast packets advertising the Flex are getting dropped. In my case it would be getting dropped by the cellular carrier. Not being cellular, Viaero might not drop broadcast packets. I don’t know. Another thing is, ZeroTier is routing packets, not bridging. That is, the VPN is layer 3, not layer 2, if that makes sense. If it was layer 2 it would not be looking at the type of packets and therefore wouldn’t know or care if a packet was a broadcast packet or not. Smartlink should work if the VPN was bridged rather than routed. Supposedly there is a way to make ZeroTier to bridge rather than route but I could never get it to work. Can you bridge with SoftEther? I’m anxious to hear what your progress has been.

The only other insight I would have is about bandwidth usage. Typical usage at my remote is 133 Gb of data per month and that’s with Smartlink. I think Remote Desktop would be much higher. Does Viaero offer unlimited bandwidth? I’m lucky enough to have a WISP that doesn’t complain about my usage.

Mark - W0QL