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Anesti33
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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...
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    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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21 days ago

Fast-forward to 2025 and I've reconnected my Cox Home Internet service. I chose Go Fast, and added Cox Complete Care for a more comprehensive tech-support experience.

The local Cox Store again issued me a PW6 4141 style router. It seems newer than the one I had before, albeit exactly the same design and model, with only the two Ethernet ports. It works great.

I'm currently having no issues in connecting to the router or the Internet, via wired 1GbE to ChromeOS, as well as WiFi 5GHz from all 3 devices. Furthermore, having no issues connecting to Cox Metro WiFi Hotspots, especially the one right underneath my residence.

I've no idea what was disrupting my service before I disconnected in December. I hope the symptoms don't recur. I really don't want to mess with the Panoramic WiFi app. I've avoided installing it entirely. I've also avoided accessing or modifying the router's WWW management interface. I expressed at the Store that I wish to interfere as little as possible, and I also hope that Cox manages the firmware updates well enough to avoid any compromises from external threat actors.

According to my understanding, Cox Home customers really can't specify what sort of modem is issued to us when we're renting equipment. They told me "the algorithm decides this" so I couldn't choose, for example, a more powerful processor or more than 2 Ethernet ports. And yes, the rental agreement does make us eligible for bona fide hardware upgrades every 3 years or so. For whatever that's worth, because Gigablast and Fiber Optic service are imminent, especially in the City of Tempe where they're licensing providers and working on some sort of municipal common-access solution. No Google Fiber on the horizon for my neighborhood.

While 1280GB and 100Mbps is way more Internet than I'll ever need, I'm grateful for Cox's expert support and reliability over these >10 years. My parents also enjoy Cox service since I had it installed in 1993. Who else would we turn to???