Current IPv6 state of US Mobile Phone Carriers

Wed May 23 02:50:31 UTC 2012

On May 22, 2012 7:14 PM, "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <
wolfgang.rupprecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Cameron Byrne writes:
> >    From what you wrote,  guess is you are using a phone that does not
> >    have IPv6 support (only Nexus phones have support today... Other
phones
> >    do not have the correct radio / RIL capabilities)
>
> I'm using the Galaxy Nexus GSM bought directly from google a few weeks
> ago.  The firmware is up to date as are the apps.
>
> The instructions mention settings and pages that are slightly wrong
> for this phone.  I went to the "Mobile network settings" -> "Access
> Point names" -> "T-Mobile US, epc.tmobile.com" -> "APN Protocol".  It
> was "IPv4" and I changed it to "IPv4/IPv6" and then rebooted.  There
> was no "save" button or menu item.  After reboot the ipv4/ipv6 setting
> was still active (so it was saved), but no connection took place.  The
> cell tower I'm using is in Fremont, CA (CID 47052 LAC321).  Might it
> not be v6 connected?
>

For the sake of the archive and documenting the confirmed fix, the correct
APN setting for T-Mobile is "IPv6" not "IPv4 /IPv6"

CB

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