What buyers actually buy
Ad verification and price checks prefer clean residential exits. CGNAT puts many homes behind one public address — buyers see collision risk and may pay less or skip the session. A true public IP is still residential when your ISP assigns it to your line — it is not a datacenter proxy.
cgnat-shared-ip-pay-rates-europe-2026 covers shared-IP symptoms; this page is the rate decision: stay, ask ISP for public IP, or change rail.
Practical comparison checklist
A €5/month public-IP fee that buys €1 of rate uplift is a hobby tax, not a growth plan.
- Confirm CGNAT: no inbound port map, ISP FAQ, or whatismyip vs router WAN mismatch
- Screenshot 7 days of dashboard quality / limited / pay-rate notes on CGNAT
- Ask ISP once (written): public IPv4 option, monthly fee, CGNAT exit timeline
- If fee > realistic monthly earn uplift — keep CGNAT and diversify rails
- After any IP change: one official client, no VPN stack — vpn-while-earning-online
- Retest the same hours for a week before judging fiber-vs-dsl-earn-rates-europe-2026
When public IP is worth asking
You already pass ISP fair-use, housemate rules, and quiet hours — isp-fair-use-bandwidth-europe-2026 — and dashboards repeatedly flag quality on a known CGNAT line.
Student dorms and mobile-only lines often cannot get a public IP at all — dorm-ethernet-vs-wifi-earn-apps-europe-2026 + mobile-data-vs-home-wifi-earn-apps-europe-2026.
Tonight
Log CGNAT vs not, one week of dashboard notes, then decide: ISP ticket, keep CGNAT, or pause bandwidth. Hub: /guides/bandwidth-safety/. Start: /en/start/.