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Intermittent DNS Errors and WiFi Issues
I have had the Orbi AX6000 for a few months now. While there are many things I love about it (great wifi coverage, great speed, looks nice, software, ease of setup, etc.), there are two very frustra...
So glad I've read this thread. Thankfully I can correct my mistake now. Received my 853 system yesterday and it's going straight back. Not even opening the box, straight back. I'm not going to buy a stand alone router to fix built in problems of the Orbi nor try the work arounds to fix what shouldn't be a problem. Not even going to see if my hardware is good, straight back. What blows my mind more than anything is the lack of NG involvement here. I've used many NG products over the years and have been generally pleased. I'm not going to put up with inherent bugs right out of the box though. Return.
Thats your choice to not try your system. Not everyone sees this problem. Mines working well. Even on recent FW.
NG IS aware of this problem for those that are effected by it.
Good Luck.
With the latest firmware and using the 6to4 Tunnel option under the router admin settings, I had no issues.
However, Google Search started popping up a "6to4 Tunnel detected - This is being deprecated warning with a forced captcha puzzle to complete each time.
"We have detected you are using a 6to4 tunnel. 6to4 is deprecated and will be shutdown shortly."
My ISP doesn't support direct IP6 connections, so I disabled the 6to4 Tunnel to get rid of the Google deprecation warning and went back to an IP4 connection.
As soon as doing so, DNS errors started appearing again. So it's clearly only IP4 connections affected (or affected the most).
If you can't do IP6 with your ISP, currently I can not recommend this router Mesh. They won't bother fix it.
IPv6 6to4 isn't required to be suported by the ISP to use 6to4 on the router. I've used 6to4 with mine and it works. My ISP doesn't support any native IPv6.
FURRYe38 Same, it was what I was originally using to fix this issue as well.
The search engine Google.com, started warning me about using it, if using the Firefox web-browser with DNS over HTTPS (other web-browsers don't seem to show the warning message and required captcha). It's a security risk or some issue with using the 6to4 Tunnel, that it has been Deprecated back in 2015. Google now plans to remove all support for it.
I forgot to take a screenshot of it, but have found one from someone else, see attached. You have to complete that every time you want to use Google search, if using 6to4 Tunnel, with Firefox and DNS over HTTPS. It doesn't appear to be safe or secure to use? It was deprecated due to possible hijacking and spoofing across it.
