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Last night I got most of my streaming applications loaded onto my new OLED television and while some of them worked just fine a few, (Disney+ and others) wouldn’t actually load and stream content. It was late, I was tired and sweaty from taking down the old tv and putting up the new one so I figured I would just let the matter rest until today.

I got the rest of my apps loaded but I was still seeing the loading circle of doom when I tried to play content from some of them. HBOMax had to be the final app loaded because it had a very different login than the others. (When I originally signed up for my AT&T fiber internet access way back in 2016 the promotion included free HBOMax for as long as you kept the service. They no longer offer that to new customers but those of us who signed up then still get free access to HBOMax.)

When I sorted out the special login and got it working, HBOMax displayed a failure message when I tried to play anything, advising me that I should go into the settings of my device, find the one for IPv6 and switch it off. I did that and HBOMax played just fine, and so did all the other apps that had been giving me trouble. Only HBOMax bothered with a dialog box for the user. Thank you, HBOMax, for thinking about the people at the other end of the internet connection.