Contact Broadband review?

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CrashAndBurn

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#306116 29-Jun-2023 17:14

Tried to search but not many results am guessing due to contact and broadband being too generic a keyword. Am with Skinny right now but got the email about the price increase. Have the option to bundle broadband with my current power provider for a discounted rate saving me $10 a month.

Few questions:

Are they CGNAT? Would this affect me.
Anyone on contact broadband, how is your experience with VPN as both me and my wife wfh.
What modem do they send? Worth just using my Smart Modem from Skinny?

Thanks in advance.

Deckart

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#3096307 29-Jun-2023 18:07

I’ve been on Contact since September last year with zero issues.
1. I believe they use CG-NAT from other posts I’ve seen
2. No issues with using VPNs for me.
3. They sent me a TP-Link Deco x55 even though I said I didn’t need a modem. They use vlan tagging so whatever you use would need to be compatible with that.

All up it’s been great and cheap to boot…

cyril7

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#3098093 1-Jul-2023 10:47

Hi as Deckart says, contact do use CG-NAT, however unless you wish to expose internal devices to the public address space, then that will have no impact.

As for VPNs, the same applies if you are using the VPN to allow access from the public address space to your lan via the VPN then you will have an issue. But if you are just using a corporate VPN to allow access into your works network, then it should not be an issue as the VPN client will reach out to the corporate server, ie will only create outbound connection to build the VPN, and that will work fine with CG-NAT.

Cyril

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#3098107 1-Jul-2023 11:35

If they haven't upped their price yet, expect them to

It's a pass-on cost from w/sale.
I note a few of them offering a new short 12mth at fixed rate or allowing breaking of current to avoid the increase (skinny included). But like gas. It's likely to catch up everyone as soon as that's done.