Recent content by nsmith17044

At this point I have managed to get a BYOP activated. It was painful (over two hours with Tracfone support) but at least the Samsung J1 with 6.0.1 works flawlessly. After contacting Tracfone support again about the error 491 issue they indicated the phone is defective and it should be...

Not sure what you are referring to. I do not have any intrusion protection or AV on my home network. I do have AV and intrusion protection on my work network. The fact that this has now occurred while on the cellular network makes me believe this is unrelated to Wifi networking. Tracfone...

At home I use an old Zywall5 that doesn't have any support for for IPv6. The Wifi IP's come from that, not the Netgear AP. The AP is essentially transparent. At work I'm almost certain I disabled IPv6 on the network router when I configured it (earlier this year). My DHCP server does not...

I don't use cellular data mode as the cellular coverage is very poor and very slow here. With all the talk about the future of 5G, someday maybe we will get reliable 4G. When they phase out 3G here, I'll lose my phone service. I only use Wifi and the phone seems to default to run updates only...

I have a new (6 days old) ZTE Majesty Pro with 6.0.1 via Tracfone. I've had the issue 3 times now where the phone will stop installing updates and also not allow me to install an app. The error is always 491. First was within an hour of turning it on. Second was the next day. Third time was...