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Fun reasons why my home network is still on IPv4: IPv6 drains my girlfriend's phone battery :-) Something to do with Router Advertisement intervals being too s
by erinaceousjones 2y ago
Fun reasons why my home network is still on IPv4: IPv6 drains my girlfriend's phone battery :-)
Something to do with Router Advertisement intervals being too short, though I don't get why that only affects her ~5yo android phone. And IPv6 is so complex, I haven't figured out if the RA interval is something I can or should tweak, whether that comes from the PiHole or whether I'd have to flash OpenWRT on my router, or whether my ISP ultimately controls that upstream. Like, I can't figure out as easily where the boundary between me and "the internet" ends with things like the /64 prefixes and SLAAC and RDNSS and all the other acronyms.
Yeah, yeah, I should RTFM, and eventually I might figure out what makes a "good" home IPv6 network. But I can't be arsed to do that in my free time yet, and neither can most software companies cough cough Google/Android and that one guy causing IPv6 drama in the android team
Like.... Ehhh... I'll come back to it in a few more years. "Are we IPv6 yet?"
- BonoboIO 2y agoNever would have guessed that ipv6 could be a battery drain
- kiwijamo 2y agoI have an Android on my IPv6 network with no issues, and this is across several different router vendors with different defaults for RAs. Maybe it's not an IPv6 issue and you're barking up the wrong tree?
- erinaceousjones 2y agoProbably definitely barking up the wrong tree, yes. I happened upon a forum post somewhere about Sony Xperia XA2 battery drain on networks where router advertisment intervals were every 10 seconds or something. Who knows, maybe I dreamed it. Nonetheless, I disabled IPv6 again and that, somehow, was the smoking gun that solved the "my phone always runs out of charge overnight when I stay connected to your wi-fi" problem.