Edit: Big thanks to everybody who shared their advice! :) I’m very pleasantly surprised and will definitely explore all the options you guys provided, such as getting an additional router or configuring Tailscale. Again, big thanks to everyone!


Hi all, I’ve recently moved and now my ISP doesn’t allow port forwarding for wired connections (wifi only), and my landlord does not allow changing ISPs. Now my home server is practically useless which makes me very sad.

Is there any easy way to still access device ports without port forwarding or buying a wifi card/dongle is my safest bet?

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    If the ISP allows port forwarding for wireless connections (as you said in your post) you just get yourself a WiFi router that can work in bridge mode.

    Then you forward your ports (in the ISP router) to your bridge router and then you log into your bridge router and forward ports to your wired devices.

    This assumes that the WiFi connection on the bridge router acts as WAN and performs NAT for its wired devices. If the bridge router is really just a bridge then you should only have to forward ports on the ISP router.