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Anesti33
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2 months ago
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IPv6 dual-stack devices on Home Internet connections

Greetings, A colleague at a Canadian University writes a blog about his systems administration work, and has often posted stories about IPv6 implementation on their network. In particular, he and I...
  • Anflexboi's avatar
    Anflexboi
    2 months ago

    Sighs, no offense to the last poster above, but your response is why I despise looking for help here.  

    every “genius” on the community sites wants to have the best answer and gets totally lost in a difference of opinion.  I’m not here to start a cat fights but let me break it down in the most simple of terms.

    The request basically landed with a request for directions on how to disable the ipv6 setting.   You said it’s possible, but didn’t offer the goods.  Rather you want to lecture about old devices and silliness. 

    I am also interested in disabling ipv6 too because my iPhone 16promax is being hacked as well as pcs.  This is a developer level hacked, from all intensive purposes it seems like China but might be a decoy.  I’m not special and have no idea when this states but upwards of 3 months to years..,its make my life a living hell.  I switched to pano modem today for first time.   So far the pano modem router appears to be holding them at bay but I don’t need ipv6 and less familiar with it so prefer it to be off.   If you know how to disable on iPhone or pano . Please share 

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Darkatt
Honored Contributor
2 months ago

First of all, ALL internet devices are configurable and you can disable IPv4 and;/or IPv6. Whether it's windows/mac/android, etc etc. 

If you have a router, it can be configured on the router to provide, or NOT to provide IPv4 or IPv6. 

What router are you using, and I can provide information on how to disable Ipv6 if that's what you are interested in. 

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Anesti33
Contributor
2 months ago

Sure bro,

My devices are Android 11, Android 15, and ChromeOS Stable. 

I'm not interested in a verbal description of steps, but vendor documentation would be great. I had a CGM4141 panoramic router, and it surprised me that it even had LAN-accessible management. The mobile app from Cox panoramic Wi-Fi was interfering with it, causing my own denial of services, in unpredictable ways.  I was also surprised that it came with default well-known credentials to manage it and these were not reset by the factory reset, so it was confusing how much of the router that Cox is managing themselves. I wanted less work to do when I rented that modem. Less security risk. I was deluded.

What I'm going to do is subscribe to Cox Complete Care. Perhaps they support their mobile apps? I've already emailed the Cox at home help email address for support and this forum post is simply thinking out loud. Thank you

 

 

  • Darkatt's avatar
    Darkatt
    Honored Contributor
    2 months ago

    The 4141 is a MUCH older device, Upgrade to the newer device then use the Cox Complete Care and have them walk you through what you are trying to do. The 4141 is old and slow. 

    You have a PW3 or 4, cannot remember, the latest is a PW8 - Technicolor CGM4981

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      Anesti33
      Contributor
      2 months ago

      No, perhaps you didn't understand: Cox issues the device for us to use. You tell Cox to upgrade me, but I'm not sure why: this thread is about disabling IPv6; why would a newer device be better? Why is "faster" better? It's a legacy DOCSIS network. We're simply waiting for FIOS to go through by next year and then I can cut over to a 5G hotspot or something instead. I need maximum 20-40.Mbps upstream, and 150 Gbibytes/mo.

       

      The router or modem is a chokepoint, and I could limp by in Transparent Bridging instead, but all 3 devices are zealously seeking IPv6 connectivity, and there's no turning back.

       

      I've disabled Private DNS because that's another can of Morris Worms

      • Darkatt's avatar
        Darkatt
        Honored Contributor
        2 months ago

        Perhaps YOU didn't understand. 

        1. If the modem or router is a chokepoint, then UPGRADEING to a newer/faster device helps remove that chokepoint.
        2. With the exception of the ChromeOS, the OTHER 2 devices CAN have IPv6 turned off, I provided instructions on how to accomplish this. 
        3. Cox isn't going to simply upgrade your equipment whenever they have newer equipment. If YOURS is working ok, then the status quo prevails. It appears YOURS doesn't meet your requirements on several levels, taking it to the Cox Solution store and exchanging for a newer piece of equipment will help alleviate a couple of those levels. 

        Lastly, the fact that the devices are "zealously" seeking IPv6 connectivity isn't a COX issue. Though the denial of IPv6 can be accomplished on the router, the fact that at least one of your devices CANNOT turn off IPv6 is a ChromeOS thing, not a COX thing. The other 2 devices can have it turned off. 

        I am using a Netgear CM2000 capable of MUCH faster speed than I am signed up for, and it runs flawlessly. My RAXE300 Netgear router is also flawless and I can turn off/on IPv6 at will as well as control many other functions. My Internet is 500 down/50 up and unlimited data. I can go up to 2gb download with my equipment.  

        If I have an issue I take the proper steps to resolve. IF the Cox equipment isn't meeting your needs, do what I did.