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For those of you poor souls out there in Mac-land that still rely on a dial-up connection to surf the net, be sure your IPv6 is turned off! I struggled for many hours trying to establish a connection when I realized the error. The IPv6 is located in System Preferences -> Internal modem -> TCP/IP (located in the tool bar between PPP and Proxies). Good Luck!

[robg adds: This is the first I've heard of this -- can someone in modem-land confirm this one?]
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Disable IPv6 for dial-up connections
Authored by: robarmo on May 20, '04 03:38:32PM

I connect using dial-up and have just looked in my System Prefs under the headings described in the original post.

At the top it says configure IPv4: Using PPP.

Next to IPv6 is totally blank, not even a drop down menu etc. Clicking on 'Configure' below shows that its apparantly set to automatic. The IPv6 Address and Router fields are blank.

I have no problems establishing a connection with this set-up.

Rob.



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Disable IPv6 for dial-up connections
Authored by: maddys_daddy on May 20, '04 05:32:45PM

I'm away from home, using standard dialup from a hotel room, and I didn't have this problem. Initially, IPv6 was set to automatic config, but to test this hint, I set it to manual, which generated a bunch of zeros in the IPv6 and Router address text boxes in the IPv6 config dialog. Reconnection went off without a hitch. There is still no address next to "IPv6 Address" in the Internal Modem prefpane, just as before setting IPv6 to manual. So the bottom line is, IPv6 made absolutely no difference in my ability to connect.
But man, I can't wait to get back home to my cable modem... ;)



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Disable IPv6 for dial-up connections
Authored by: Sveto on May 20, '04 07:34:16PM

The guy must have had a problem with the modem. He should use the option V.90 because his ISP probably does not support V.92 and than you get real hard time establishing connection.
Most of the ISPs do not want to update hardware just for a small gain in the upload speed at the user side.



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