CGNAT and Google reCAPTCHA haunting me throughout internet

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This is my first post in IBF and the first post in Realwire sub-forum. Hello all!

I am coming straight from BSNL ADSL connection. Suffered constant drop outs and the SNR value was 6.3 for 2Mbps speed. My plan was 8 Mbps! FTTH is a life changer for me. I am still suffering from PTSD of dealing with BSNL linemen. I can't believe that my internet connection never drops out. The transition was smooth and LCO was very supportive. Realwire delivers! The speed is constant when I download many linux ISOs, no issues. But I think that I am behind a CGNAT. I could do port-forwarding in BSNl but not now. I did some traceroutes and I am 99% sure, there is two-three NATs between me and the host server. Here are the results:

Tracing route to google.com [142.250.76.46]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.10.1
2 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 172.16.0.1
3 4 ms 5 ms 3 ms 103.48.18x.x
4 12 ms 15 ms 12 ms 103.48.18x.xxx
5 12 ms 13 ms 12 ms 45.120.251.127
6 13 ms 13 ms 12 ms 108.170.253.113
7 13 ms 14 ms 14 ms 142.250.235.105
8 16 ms 23 ms 13 ms maa03s36-in-f14.1e100.net [142.250.76.46]

When I google what's my IP, it is different from everything in this tracert result. And I have set up my main browser(Firefox), in such a way not to store any cookies, cache, history. Ad blocker is enabled. I had no problem with BSNL, but after the transition to Realwire, I have to solve reCAPTCHA every single time when I search something. It's quite annoying honestly.

Is there any way to solve this? If I buy static IP, can I do port forwarding? I need port forwarding to seed for a bunch of private trackers. Any help? Can you also rate my connection?


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@Sushubh Yeah, that's one way. My main problem is port-forwarding. I was planning to do multiple stuffs with new connection, like a Wireguard VPN setup in my home so that I can access internet from public WiFi and college WiFi securely. My college WiFi blocks many websites for no reason. I was also thinking about a remote Jellyfin server or Plex server to stream media on the go. I can seed to the private trackers but I can't upload any stuff to others. Can static Ip solve all this problem?
 
So the IP which shows up when you google "My IP" and one which shows up on whatismyipaddress.com for example different?

Maybe ISP is oversharing IPs. Excitel for instance allocates one public IP to a /29 Block (8 Private IP).

If there are too many users on same IP which maybe the case with smaller ISPs with small IP Pools, Google maybe seeing too many requests from single IP and hence giving you captcha.

It could also be that some user on the ISP network is abusing Google network and you also have to suffer because of the shared IP.
 
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If you want to set up a VPN server behind CGNAT, check out softether VPN protocol. It has udp nat punching capabilities. Yes, recaptcha on CGNAT irritates me a lot, but my ISP support says they don't do CGNAT, which is obviously BS.
 
@JB701 That's right. Realwire is pretty small. I can solve the Google captcha issue by signing in with my google account tho, but that's helping google collect more data. And the captcha thing follows everywhere, I found it in Coursera, link-removed, etc
 
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