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ipV6 disconnecting on Orbi RBR850
(NOT RBK53 model in drop down, why is RBR850 not there?) I have RBR850, firmware V4.6.7.13_2.1.9, and a CM1200 modem connected to Comcast's 1.2/40 service. All is working well, speeds, modem numb...
OK, it's been two weeks, and my IPv6 has been working perfectly all that time, no more disconnects! I am going to mark this thread as solved, with the update of firmware to 4.6.8.5 being the thing that fixed it. If others are still having trouble I suggest starting a new thread, as there may be multiple issues. Thanks everyone for your help!
Would be good to know if this still happens with newer FW:
I am on 4.6.8.2_2.1.9 (Orbi RBR850) and I am one of the ones reporting the problem so yes it does occur on the latest firmware.
Did you power OFF and back on the ISP modem and RBR for 1 minute or factory reset and setup from scratch then test IPv6?
I have done it all several times. The IPv6 is lost after approximately a week. Then I have to toggle IPv6 to disable and on again, then do auto detect which gives me 6to4tunnel and then set DHCP. If none of that works I have to reboot the router and modem also. It's time consuming and annoying.
I am on firmware 4.6.8.2.
Actually I did neither, I see that firmware came out April 27 - I didn't even know there was new firmware out. Does it auto update? I'll power off the modem and RBR now for 1 minute and see how it goes the next few days...
I did the power reset on the modem and router yesterday afternoon, Last night I encountered a strange problem. On 2 different Windows 11 laptops, things got really slow. On my MacBook Pro there were no issues. I couldn't figure out the problem, but to get to the DuckDuckGo home page in Edge took about 30 seconds, usually it's instantaneous. Quicken took about 3-4 minutes to bring up the first screen! I ran speed test, it took about a minute to connect, but then speeds were perfect (~ 900Mbps down, 40 Mbps up - so a very fast ethernet). One of the Windows is Ethernet connected the other is WiFi.
So I tried -
Windows restart
Windows power cycle
Power cycle modem
Power cycle RBR850
Power cycle Switch
Clear all cache etc. in Edge
I probably did some other stuff I can't remember.
It was still very bad today, almost unusable. So I thought about the ipV6 issues, and I disabled ipV6 on the router only. Boom - lightning fast again! So there was some sort of serious issue going on here. I am done with ipV6 for awhile, luckily I can afford to - maybe it will work consistently by the time its truly needed.
