UVerse and IPv6 Tunneling with 3800 HGV-B

Requiring someone to pay more to fix a problem introduced by a change on your side isn't exactly what most people would consider a solution.  If it's a firmware bug, fine.  Bugs happen.  Give us some hope that there's a fix in QA for deployment.

They should not of offered me the 589 in the first place then. Also looking at another forum, kind of looks like the 3801 has the same problem, so sending me someting that has the same issue is not going to have much effect. If they want to roll the 3800 firmware back to something that works, I'll be happy with that too, but that does not seem to be possible, and was already told I can get a 589. Having to pay more to upgrade to 45mb like the OP did to basically get my full service restored is not really a good solution.

I was in the same boat as everyone here. 3800 gateway, 6.9 firmware and no more IPv6 tunnel through HE. i talked to AT&T support and they confirmed the 3800 doesnt support it. I stewed over it and decided to follow OP's lead, I requested the new 45Mbit connection. a 5 hour service call later, I now have the motorola gateway and my IPv6 capability is back. this shouldnt cost me much of anything because I can now call and downgrade back to my 18Mbit connection. i might be charged a little for the prorated use of 45Mbit but there were no other charges for the upgrade.

They sent a tech out today, and he replaced the 3800 with a NVG589,native IPv6 is not enabled on it, but my tunnel is back in working order.

It may not be a deliberate, but my 3800 blocks protocol 41 not only for packets addressed to the box's own IP address, but also to any address in the separate /29 block for which I pay extra.

This is the last straw; I've ordered Time Warner (which at 5/50 is now faster than Uverse at 3/24) and will dump U-verse when I have everything reconfigured.

Yet another promising technology ruined by corporate incompetence. What happened to AT&T, anyway? They once knew what they were doing.

That is what upset me the most is it was blocked for my /29, I'm paying for, I mainlhy have the /29 so I could run a couple tunnels, At least I'm fixed up, but had to waste a lot of time, sad to say it would of been a lot easier to call TWC or WOW then to deal with the garbage CS put me through.

As a heads up, the accepted solution only works for installations that are capable of bonded pairs. According to the tech that was supposed to come out yesterday and swap out my 3800 for a Motorola, there is some nonsense corporate mandate that only Motorola modems can only be used for bonded installs.

In my case, I have fiber to the house, which is great - except now I can't get the router that would actually fix this.

Tech is supposed to get back with me later this week, so I am waiting to see if he does before I go nuts.

If I can't get an accepted solution, I'm going to have to start shopping around. Fiber to the house has soo much potential but not if it's being provided by an incompetent company.

I showed the tech they sent out all the threads of people complaining about the broken tunnels, and the tech then and went ahead and replaced my 3800 with a NVG589. He also stated that I was the first non-pair bonded install that he has used the 589 for. I would of been happy to have my firmware rolled back on the 3800, but I could not seem to get anyone to consider doing that. I'm happy they at the end fixed me up, but they started out breaking the tunnels in the 3801 in Auguest, but decided they really do not care about anyone that is tunneling, and pushed the same break out to everyone on the 3800, and then decided that fighting and agruing with paying customers about fixing an issue they caused is better then trying to actually solve the issue is just totally unprofessional, and disappointing.