Should I Disable Ipv6 Windows 10?
Contents We Do Not Recommend That You Disable Ipv6 or Its Components. If You Do, Some Windows Components May Not Function. We Recommend Using Prefer Ipv4 over...
We do not recommend that you disable IPv6 or its components. If you do, some Windows components may not function. We recommend using Prefer IPv4 over IPv6 in prefix policies instead of disabling IPV6.
Is it OK to disable IPv6?
Although it’s taken a long time for the adoption of IPv6 to get going, it isn’t a good idea to disable this network stack for the sake of convenience. After all, much of the IPv6 infrastructure is now in place and is extensively used. And disabling IPv6 can actually cause problems.
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Should IPv6 be on or off?
Others might disable it because of a misperception that having both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled effectively doubles their DNS and Web traffic. This is not true. … Therefore, Microsoft recommends that you leave IPv6 enabled, even if you do not have an IPv6-enabled network, either native or tunneled.
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