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RS500 router - Internet feels much faster with IPV6 disabled?
Any insights why my internet and general browsing feels much faster with IPv6 disabled in the router. My ISP is Xfinity and it provides native Ipv6 support with DHCPv6-PD. The same has been my observ...
Speed tests would have variance at different times, I feel that the web pages load a bit faster and pings are slightly faster with ipv6 disabled, although the difference in performance is not huge.
I have an RS700 and Ookla Speedtest reports and extra 15 Mbps down and extra 13 Mbps up with IPv 6 disabled. Using Cloudflare DNS.
Thanks, do the web pages seem to load a bit faster with ipv6 disabled? Also the latency has improved a bit. The YouTube videos in my Google TV streamer also load much faster.
To be honest I don't notice any difference at all. The difference between 935 Mbps and 950 Mbps is negligible.
Speed tests don't measure the true performance difference though since they will vary between each and every test. There's some time added in falling back to ipv4 when the default is ipv6 in the browser with ipv6 enabled in the router.
Speed tests would have variance at different times, I feel that the web pages load a bit faster and pings are slightly faster with ipv6 disabled, although the difference in performance is not huge.
Guess, there isn't much difference in the speeds, although there's some time (in ms) saved in ipv6 to ipv4 fallback when a website is ipv4 only.