Act Broadband is no longer giving public IPs

[India_King]

What's the benefit of Public IP?

Isn't it good that you can download stuff without anyone seeing your real IP? Isn't it good for privacy?

Is your NAT public IP dynamic? If not, then it can be problematic.

 

[uberjon]

If you want to log on to your office network from home, then you probably need to have a public IP address.

 

[internet_guy]

the speeds are pathetic lately, lot of buffering on you tube and video streaming websites

 

[RedskyITM]

Okay time to share my experience. I'm in Bangalore for reference.

Firstly this will only solve the double NAT issue that comes along with giving people private IP addresses instead of public ones. I apologise if this is not what you're looking for but I believe it is better than using a VPN because I've never gotten above 20MBps with one.

To Fix Port Forwarding:

1. Call CC and tell them you would like to speak to an engineer. Wait for the callback.
2. Tell the engineer that you need open ports because you use game servers so you would like a static private IP (not public IP).
3. He should disable PPPoE on your account and tell you to setup your router WAN for a static IP like the following: https://puu.sh/jZG00/4aa9360697.png
4. If he bullshits around just tell him to look at the configuration for account # 10455273
5. There, you should now be able to port forward.

Now you might notice that most public trackers will not give you a proper peer response after doing this. This is largely because ACT is now intercepting tracker responses over ports 80 and 81 to make you use more local peers (P4P), whether this happens outside Bangalore or not I will still post the fix.

To Fix Tracker Responses:

1. Get a SOCKS5 proxy subscription (or whatever). I use PIA.
2. In uTorrent or basically any other torrenting client enable the proxy only for hostname lookups/tracker lookups. What this means is that the client will only use the proxy to query trackers. All other connections will be done over your normal connection (full speed) and that's the IP that will be reported to the seeds/peers.
   
3. It looks like this in uTorrent 2.2.1: http://puu.sh/jZGBz/9aabfdb248.png

Done, you should be able to torrent just fine now.

the speeds are pathetic lately, lot of buffering on you tube and video streaming websites

I am experiencing the same thing. However, that's only on first load. Refresh the page as soon as it loads and the video will stream at expected speeds. I believe ACT is using some inefficient version of caching.

 

[vj_v1]

@broadband.act - My ACT internet account is registered to [email protected]

 

[ratrat]

hello buddy, ACT have allocated me a Public IP and they say all ports from range 1-65000 are open but it still shows closed for me on port checker websites. What do i need to do? Please help.

 

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[George nathan]

@igloo Thank you for your valuable feedback and your concern for the poor chap. If you do not need a public IP, it does not mean i don't need it. You don't need to worry so much about the poor chap, he is there ot deal with customers like me, it's his job.

I signed up for their service coz they give out a public IP address, for that matter all service providers i used in the past give out Public Ip addresses, even ACT did so until last week. When i signed up, they did inform me that the Public IP is dynamic and im not ok with that, but this private IP NAT thing just doesn't work for me.


PS: No one needs to get personal, everyone has their own personal opinion, so you can better mind you own tongue if something doesn't work for you.


@chromaniac - I am aware of the deficiency of IPv4 addresses, they should probably give out private ip addresses to all new customers if they don't have enough, not pull a surpise on the old ones or they should be more advanced and switchover to IPv6, i'm game to use IPV6 if they can offer me the service,

-VJ

I completely agree with you VJ.
Kindly guide me on how you got this issue resolved.

Thanks a lot in advance!