BRSK

[ZaviiNet]

I have an update, after months of being messed about BRSK installed FTTP at my address yesterday afternoon and I'm now 1000/1000mbps. - SK5. Now is it worth complaining about being messed about to get some type of compensation?

 

[sidepipe]

I’ve given my notice to Virgin today and was ready to sign up to BRSK that’s just gone live in my area.

Been reading up and they use CGNAT. I have a fair few smart home devices that I control from outside the home as well as a Ring Doorbell and DVR connected online which I view on mobile when away.

Don’t play any (multiplayer) games online but that could change.

Would I have any connectivity issues given that it’s CGNAT and would it be less secure?

Would the BetterIP Static IP add-on help?

I’m fairly techy but not so much when it comes to networking/port forwarding etc and wouldn’t really want to spend hours setting up/troubleshooting.

CGNAT is only an issue if you genuinely need inbound connections ( where the connection needs to be initiated from the outside. ) It may seem as though smart home devices fall into that category, but unless you know different ( and you would, because you'd have to set something up such as port forwarding on a router or whatever ) then in 99.9% of cases that's not true. There's a cloud service that acts a a broker - your smart home devices use an outgoing connection to hold open a link to this broker service, as does your phone app or whatever you use to control them.... so in most circumstances and for most home users, CGNAT is absolutely fine.