ACT Fibernet rolls out IPv6 in Chennai after Bangalore

Update as of  1st Sept 2019 - ACT customer servie informed me on a call to my inquiry that v6 is no longer offered; they only activate WAN side v6 when the dynamic IP pool is congested and normally v6 is not offered. Even funnier is business customers with static IP's are never presented with v6 and are stuck with v4 alone. Pity as v6 will soon gain wider adoption in India after Jio comes up with its home broadband.

Update as of  30th Sept 2019 - Not sure what happened, I am fully getting WAN side V6 now; it can mean two things - either the load is constantly high and thus V6 is available or they just started activating V6 full time. Either way, IPv6 is active and usable with ACT.

ACT after testing it out in Bangalore, has now enabled IPv6 in Chennai; making ACT as the only ISP after Jio to provide services in IPv6.

Right now they're using 64 prefix.

Sites to see if you are IPv6 enabled:

https://ipv6test.google.com
https://test-ipv6.com
http://v6.testmyipv6.com / http://ds.testmyipv6.com
http://ipv6-test.com


Recommended IPv6 DNS:

2620:fe::fe / 2620:00FE:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:00FE

2606:4700:4700::1001 / 2606:4700:4700:0000:0000:0000:0000:1001

2001:4860:4860::8888 / 2001:4860:4860:0000:0000:0000:0000:8888

2620:0:ccc::2 / 2620:0000:0CCC:0000:0000:0000:0000:0002

2606:4700:4700::1111 / 2606:4700:4700:0000:0000:0000:0000:1111

2620:0:ccd::2 / 2620:0000:0CCD:0000:0000:0000:0000:0002

2001:4860:4860::8844 / 2001:4860:4860:0000:0000:0000:0000:8844

OneDrive A newer version of OneDrive is installed

Recently I was being bugged by OneDrive not starting; as a O365 user I wasn't able to use OneDrive with NGSC (Next Generation Sync Client) to download files on the go.

If you face a similar situation, follow these steps, in this particular order - if possible.

• Navigate to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OneDrive & delete it. i.e, Delete the OneDrive registry keys under the Microsoft folder.
• Use Revo Uninstaller, while I used the pro version, the free version can also be used; no difference. Just run it, pre-configure it to do a back up of the registry and also a system restore point. It will try and run the native uninstaller & nothing will happen. Once you see the 'Scan/Next', click on it and remove all registry keys and left over files it displays.
• Sign Out & Reboot.
• Do not download the usual OneDrive installer from https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-in/download, that will be 24,XXX KB on disk; this is unusable. Get the one from here https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=844652, it should be 25,239 KB on disk. 
• Install this, open OneDrive settings & click on "Add an account"
• Navigate to C:\Users\Karthikeyan\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs & delete all previous OneDrive shortcuts. Goes without saying, replace my name with your user directory name.
• Create a new shortcut and point it to C:\Users\Karthikeyan\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe 
• Pin this new shortcut to the start screen or to the taskbar & use this to launch OneDrive moving forward.

That is all! Now you can actually use OneDrive as it is supposed to work :)


Hat-Tip to the following sources:

 LincolnLog's reply - https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/09425bf9-55ee-4ade-831c-b4650799dd59/a-newer-version-of-onedrive-is-installed?forum=win10itprogeneral

Someone in UV - https://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/262982-onedrive-archive/suggestions/18734299-fix-a-newer-version-is-installed-and-onedrive-fa