Airport Express & IPV6 Question

I've been using my airport express (V6.3) to print wirelessly and to stream itunes to my stereo. I have it connected through my AirPort router. It is not an extension of my wireless network. Everything worked fine until the other day.
I can still print to my printer wirelessly but itunes refused to connect to my remote speakers, stating there was an error connecting.
After researching the issue online, I disable my IPV6 setting on my AirPort and I can now stream to my stereo again.
I have a few questions I hope to get answered.
1. Why did this problem start happening out of the blue after years of using the airport express?
2. Did I do the right thing by turning off IPV6? Am I compromising any security or performance?
3. Should I have remedied the problem in some other way?
As always - thanks in advance.
Steve

to answer your question,
1. some devices support IPV6 and some don't. so if you have some that do and some that don't then your devices can not communicate. look at it this way. if we are talking on a cell phone, then we can communicate clearly. if i were to put down the phone and pick up a radio and try to talk to you and you dont have a radio then my message will not get to you. understand?
2. you did do the right thing by disabling IPV6. until your entire network is ready for IPV6 then it is best to just disable it. the only thing that will happen by you disabling IPV6 is your connection time will speed up by maybe a second or two. but thats about it. it will not effect any security at all.
3.you did the best possible thing to your network. that is the very same thing that i would have done.

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