Cellular internet is great for fast deployment and backup connectivity, but most LTE and 5G connections do not give you a usable public IPv4 address. NeedPorts gives your machine a stable public endpoint and dedicated forwarded ports as long as it can make outbound internet connections.
Many cellular providers put customers behind carrier-grade NAT. Your router or hotspot may let you create a port-forwarding rule, but the public internet still cannot route inbound traffic directly to your device because the provider is sharing public IPv4 addresses upstream.
SSH, dashboards, game servers, cameras, APIs, or Home Assistant may work on the LAN or through the router.
Remote users hit timeouts because the LTE/5G provider does not route unsolicited inbound traffic to your connection.
NeedPorts does not provide the LTE/5G service itself, fix a dead modem, or configure your router failover policy. It solves the inbound reachability problem after your machine has outbound internet access over the cellular connection.
NeedPorts plans start at $5/month or $30/year for 25 dedicated ports. That is enough for many remote-access, self-hosting, and backup-connection use cases, with larger plans available when you need more services exposed or more throughput.
Continue with these adjacent NeedPorts guides.