Setting up a Roon Media Server and help with port forwarding

[VirgilBrigman]

Hello, I am trying to set up a Roon media server and I am having issue with the port forwarding.

Roon community suggest that Vodafone use carrier grade NAT, can someone confirm if this is the case please? I am using a business Vodafone account but I am not sure if this means anything. If it does use carrier grade NAT then this is a problem. 

If this is the case I need to know if a "dedicated external IP address is available". 

Has anyone experienced anything like this and knows of any workarounds?

[Jayach]

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@Ripshod wrote:

Having a public IP means you do not have CG-NAT. I should have made that clearer, my bad

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Is that definately true? it say here: https://www.draytek.co.uk/information/blog/what-is-cgnat

"Although many ISPs will still issue your router's WAN interface with a routable public IP address (and most fixed line ISPs still do), it is increasingly common that the apparent 'public' IP address you're getting is actually running through Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT)"

I always thought they could run CGNAT on public addresses.