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Problems Displaying Web Pages in Router Mode with Frontier
Situation: I'm with Frontier (old Verizon) and have 300 Mbps up and down. I used to have my Orbi RBK50 in AP mode connected to the ISP Modem (Verizon modem). Everything was fine except for a few deta...
Sorry, I meant that the DNS was set to Get Automatically from ISP. I changed it to use the Google DNS Servers and that didn't seem to help.
Hope I'm not speaking too early when I say that I may have found the culprit. I remember that when I changed the Orbi from AP mode Router mode I set the Internet Connection Type under IPv6 to Auto Detect. This is one of the new cool things I was looking forward to try since AP mode doesn't suport IPv6 (I think, or at least doen't offer any settins option).
It turns out that apparently Frontier (nor Verizon for that matter) support IPv6. I just set Internet Connection Type to Dissabled and althoug it's still too early to tell for sure it does seem to have fixed the problem. Fingers crossed.
Stevensa wrote:Questions: Any idea what could be the problem or what I can test? Could this be a DNS issue (currently the Orbi router does not have anything in the DNS setting).
"Does not have anything" as in the button "Get automatically from ISP" is checked, but there are no values in the IP fields?
Can you look at the IP settings on one of the connected devices and report what they show for DNS?
It is pretty easy to test the DNS theory by putting in Google's DNS IP's (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4)
Sorry, I meant that the DNS was set to Get Automatically from ISP. I changed it to use the Google DNS Servers and that didn't seem to help.
Hope I'm not speaking too early when I say that I may have found the culprit. I remember that when I changed the Orbi from AP mode Router mode I set the Internet Connection Type under IPv6 to Auto Detect. This is one of the new cool things I was looking forward to try since AP mode doesn't suport IPv6 (I think, or at least doen't offer any settins option).
It turns out that apparently Frontier (nor Verizon for that matter) support IPv6. I just set Internet Connection Type to Dissabled and althoug it's still too early to tell for sure it does seem to have fixed the problem. Fingers crossed.
My IPv6 is set to "disabled". I remember 15 years ago the network guru's were saying the IPv4 was "doomed" and everything would transition to IPv6. Here we are today, with a gazillion devices connected and NAT is still plugging away. I often disable IPv6 on my Windows machines.
Happy to report that everything is running smoothly fast now. That fixed the problem I was having.