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Orbi RBR850 router IPv6 bad default - turned off??!
My new Orbi RBR850 came with IPv6 disabled. And the 'enable' button for IPv6 was not available in the IOS Orbi app but was hidden under two layers of scary 'advanced' buttons in the web GUI. I bought Orbi in part because it was supposed to include IPv6 support.
I have used IPv6 from Comcast for almost a decade now, so this is pretty disappointing.
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Not all ISPs support IPv6 natively so the option is there for users to turn it on. Only takes 2 mouse clicks.
My ISP is not the problem. I use Comcast as my ISP, and have been using IPv6 natively for about a decade throughout my home network. I have also implemented IPv6 on multiple networks.
I still maintain it's a bad default for a consumer grade router. We should be enabling IPv6 everywhere. Every modern operating system comes with IPv6 enabled by default. In fact, on cellphones you can't turn IPv6 off. Over 50% of Facebook's US traffic is IPv6, and over 30% of Google's worldwide traffic is IPv6.
Again not all ISPs support native IPv6. Mine doesn't. Also maybe different IPv6 configurations for different ISPs. These need to be setup by the user and ISP. Only 2 mouse clicks away and one can have IPv6 if it's natively supported.
Enjoy.
