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Connect to my Mac from outside my lan
It looks like Im not able to port forward on my Arcadyan hub... From Telus Assist: "Currently, TELUS residential services do not support port forwarding. If you require port forwarding, a static...
Okayeeee.... alrighty... I just got off the phone with Telus Residential Customer Service...
"Chris from Calgary" gave me help I desperately needed.
As it turns out, I've been overlooking a setting...
When you get to the advanced settings of your Arcadyan Hub...
I didn't notice the LAN Port option actually has a drop down (!)
So now I can run own router and still make use of the 3 new Boosters I just bought!!!!
Huge props out to "Chris from Calgary"! I've been toiling on this issue for a while, made my life 100% better 🤗
🍻Cheers Chris! and Happy New Year! 🍺
Telus doesn't support (residential) port forwarding, but it is still technically possible on the Arcadyan Wifi Hub (white trash can) to open up the port for remote desktop (via admin setting of the hub under Network --> Firewall --> Port Forwarding). As you suggest, that isn't the most secure, though if you are using Remote Desktop and not just a VNC connection the connection should still be encrypted but only as strong as compromised login credentials or a poor password.
It takes some fiddling (and cost) to set up a VPN, but it's doable. I've used a Raspberry Pi as a server that is connected directly to the hub via ethernet. Set up an account for free dynamic DNS through one of the supported providers listed under Network --> Dynamic DNS and enter your credentials. Then use PiVPN.io to set up a Wireguard VPN on the Raspberry Pi. Use port forwarding from above to open up a port and direct to IP address of the VPN server . Once you've tunnelled in through the VPN, you can safely remote into your Mac.
Those are obviously abbreviated instructions, but one way of tackling it.
That's what I'm hoping... unsupported, but feasible.
I've done this config before... just with Shaw... same stuff...
-setup the LAN reserved IP for the Mac I want to connect to
-port fwd the ARD ports needed to that reserved IP
Verified through https://canyouseeme.org that there is service + not being blocked by Telus.
Launch ARD, connect to the WAN IP... fail 😞
