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coolwifi
Luminary
Jan 02, 2026
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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...
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    coolwifi
    Jan 05, 2026

    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.

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coolwifi
Luminary
Jan 07, 2026

You mean the latest FW for the RS500 router? It's still at 1.0.5.22 version.

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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 07, 2026

Ya my bad. Was not fully awake when I posted that. 

Beta is still available if you wanna try it. 

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    coolwifi
    Luminary
    Jan 07, 2026

    Will wait for the new FW for the RS500, looks like they have done some enhancements for RS700 in it's FW. 

     

    IPv6 performance is good for now.