AI Summary

Half of Google’s users now access the service via IPv6, yet many home routers remain configured without it. Typical households connect phones, laptops, TVs, game consoles, video doorbells and other smart devices, all of which usually share a single public internet address. The router must sort incoming data to the correct device, a task made necessary because IPv4, the original addressing scheme, exhausted its supply of new addresses in 2011. Enabling IPv6 on the router restores the modern protocol needed for these connections.

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