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The two things I might suggest trying it changing DNS and disabling IPv6 for a day and see if it makes any difference. You can do both on a device level for testing before enabling on your network.
I use openDNS, or Google DNS, so that's not an issue. I did some deeper digging, and their IPv6 handling appears to be the point of failure. The packet loss and latency is pretty much relegated to IPv6. Bad news is their gateway doesn't allow for IPv6 to be disabled. So I guess I'm off to buy a router so I can bypass their service issue.
- WiderMouthOpen3 years agoEsteemed Contributor II
Bad news is their gateway doesn't allow for IPv6 to be disabled
You can disable IPv6 under ethernet properties so you can test with 1 PC before bringing back the gateway.
The silver lining is you will be off their gateway junk. Keep us updated.
- Jormungand3 years agoNew Contributor III
I was never a fan of gateway anyways. The only reason we got it was because our modem was dropped from the supported device list.
Here's the IPv4 vs IPv6 to Youtube for the same time period.
IPv4
IPv6
- WiderMouthOpen3 years agoEsteemed Contributor II
That certainly shows some kind of issue with IPv6 but how would that effect all your upstream traffic? Surely the speed test your using used IPv4 right? I assume you are going to put the gateway in bridge mode to use your own router.