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BT Broadband and IPv6 setup.
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 11:00 am
by Canard1066
Hello.
Replaced my BT Home Hub 6 with a Billion 8800NL R2.
All set up and working ok but not getting the ipv6 address so fails IPv6 test sites such as
http://test-ipv6.com/
I have ticked "Pv6 for this service" in the WAN Service page and my 8800NL R2 has the latest d15 firmware.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Re: BT Broadband and IPv6 setup.
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 11:12 am
by billion_fan
Canard1066 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 11:00 am
Hello.
Replaced my BT Home Hub 6 with a Billion 8800NL R2.
All set up and working ok but not getting the ipv6 address so fails IPv6 test sites such as
http://test-ipv6.com/
I have ticked "Pv6 for this service" in the WAN Service page and my 8800NL R2 has the latest d15 firmware.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Try following the attached screen shot.
Re: BT Broadband and IPv6 setup.
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 3:53 pm
by Canard1066
Hello.
Thank you for your prompt reply.
All sorted and working correctly.
Happy New Year.
Re: BT Broadband and IPv6 setup.
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:01 pm
by pastypower
Hi There,
Thank you for the screen shot - managed to get IPV6 working on my Billion after all these years.
Thank you
Re: BT Broadband and IPv6 setup.
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 4:52 pm
by RedDwarf
Thanks, worked for me as well. My BT home Hub router was providing IPv6 but my Billion 8800NL R2 would never provide IPv6 internet access. The BT Home Hub router give an absolutely pathetic connection speed and until fibre finally arrives and Openreach have been promising Full Fibre for nearly three years with emails claiming that it would be available within 6 months. Nothing so far has appeared despite my MP trying to encourage Openreach to get it done.
The telephone lines in my area are crap quality which means they cannot even offer fibre to the cabinet add to that when I switched to BT Openreach killed/swapped my phone line for a worse quality line. Personally I think that they swapped it to someone who lives locally that works at Openreach or some mate or other. From 7 Mbit/1.3Mbit using a Speedtouch 546 router when using Be Broadband down to around 5 Mbit/900Kbit or 3.6 Mbit/900Kbit with the BT Home Hub after OR changed the phone line.
At least now I can access most of the internet
even if I can do very little in regard to streaming using a 5 Mbit connection. Youtube sucks.
Re: BT Broadband and IPv6 setup.
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2023 4:21 pm
by billion_fan
RedDwarf wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 4:52 pm
Thanks, worked for me as well. My BT home Hub router was providing IPv6 but my Billion 8800NL R2 would never provide IPv6 internet access. The BT Home Hub router give an absolutely pathetic connection speed and until fibre finally arrives and Openreach have been promising Full Fibre for nearly three years with emails claiming that it would be available within 6 months. Nothing so far has appeared despite my MP trying to encourage Openreach to get it done.
The telephone lines in my area are crap quality which means they cannot even offer fibre to the cabinet add to that when I switched to BT Openreach killed/swapped my phone line for a worse quality line. Personally I think that they swapped it to someone who lives locally that works at Openreach or some mate or other. From 7 Mbit/1.3Mbit using a Speedtouch 546 router when using Be Broadband down to around 5 Mbit/900Kbit or 3.6 Mbit/900Kbit with the BT Home Hub after OR changed the phone line.
At least now I can access most of the internet
even if I can do very little in regard to streaming using a 5 Mbit connection. Youtube sucks.
As you can on ADSL you can always try tweaking the SNR and see if you can get increased speeds
Re: BT Broadband and IPv6 setup.
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2023 3:04 am
by RedDwarf
lol I am already using a 0.1 dB SN Margin because the damn BT automatic adjustments have put my default margin up to 16 dB. It is currently stable enough at a working 7.7 dB SNRM Down and 10.0 dB SNRM Up with the 0.1 dB setting in my router. I was getting only 3.6 Mbit/s on the BT Home Hub.
I have always liked any auto adjustment disabled on my line because otherwise I get crap speed. I have always tweaked it to best speed at the time of year which does come into the equation. Hot weather usually causes low speed but ATM it isn't adversely affecting it for some reason which is unusual.
I use DSLStats to monitor the connection.