I've got UVerse Gigapower FTTP service. Lately I've been having a lot of websites time out. It's become annoying and closing the IE browser and restarting it usually seems to work. Today it didn't. Starting Chrome did work.
So I dropped to a CMD shell ( Windows 8.1) and ping a website I'm trying to get to. I see an IP6 address returned and a bunch of time outs. Strange I thought. I didn't realize this whole IP6 thing was actually being used in the real world yet.
So I go to my adapter settings and disable IP6 bindings. Everything is working fine now. When I ping my server I get an IP4 address and responses. Web browsing is good again.
I looked at my gateway and it says IPv6 status available with a global unicast ipv6 address and a boarder relay ipv4 address.
I guess I need to catch up on this IP6 stuff sometime. I learned v4 some twenty years ago and my knowledge hasn't gone beyond that.
Any thoughts?
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