Disabling ipv6 in iOS 8 and/or Airport base station
I recently replaced my iPhone 4 running iOS 7 with an iPhone 6 running iOS 8.0.2. The iPhone 4 never had any problem accessing wifi, whether at home, at work, or at various other locations.
Ever since getting the iPhone 6 I've been unable to get the wifi to work properly while at home using the wireless net work run from my Time Capsule. It works fine if I connect to a Verizon FiOS wireless router. It works fine at work (Cisco wifi gear, I believe). It works fine at places like Starbucks, etc. It only appears to have issues with connecting to the Time Capsule. When I connect the phone to my Time Capsule I get a strong wifi signal, it's just that anything internet related times out after a long period of time. I'm completely unable to access anything whether in Safari, Mail, or anything else.
I've searched the forums, Google, etc. for help and I've tried re-installing iOS, resetting my wireless network settings, disabling wifi location services, etc. but none of that has helped. It just occurred to me that one big difference between the Time Capsule and most (if not all) of the other wifi access points I'm able to successfully connect to is that the Time Capsule and the iPhone appear to enable ipv6 by default. I'm wondering if the iPhone is trying to establish an ipv6 connection through the Time Capsule. That could certainly explain why all internet access just times out on my iPhone when connected to the Time Capsule.
So as a test, is there any way to completely disable ipv6 on either the Airport/Time Capsule and/or on the iPhone itself? I would love to be able to test this theory out.
This is exactly my point!
Looking at the structure of your network in your post the gigabit wired computers can speak to each other at gigabit speeds but a gigabit wired computer CANNOT speak to an AppleTV through the Wireless 'n' Router at wireless 'n' speeds UNLESS the router has gigabit capable ports.
I can't find one that has, so the maximum speed of transmission of data from a wired computer with iTunes through the wireless 'n' router to a wireless 'n' AppleTV can only be as fast as the ports on the router which is 10/100 mbps which is far below the speeds capable over wireless 'n'.
To put it simply the only way to get wireless 'n' speed transmissions to AppleTV is to feed the data to the base station using wireless 'n' because a wired connection just isn't fast enough (even if the computer has a gigabit ethernet port and is connected to a gigabit switch) because the 10/100 mbps ethernet ports on the base station are a major bottleneck!
I can't believe they didn't think of this!!!
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