I think you're right... I appreciate the guidance.
Yeah, I've noticed a lot of the lines in my ssh_config and sshd_config are commented out. I will need to read up on how to edit these files so that AddressFamily could be read in because specifying that field only doesn't seem to do anything...
Recently, my SSH log-in command hangs when trying to connect via IPv6. I've isolated it to IPv6 being the issue because when I force (ssh -4) for my login, it immediately asks me for my password and does not hang up. Here's a sample from ssh -v:
C:\Users\***>ssh -v syswannabe@hostname...