Subj : Getting into IPv6
To   : Paul Hayton
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Mon Nov 17 2014 18:00:20

Hello Paul,

On Monday November 17 2014 20:08, you wrote to me:

 Mv>> Why? Is waiting for fibre the only way to get IPv6 to your home?

 PH> My comment was more about the pain of waiting for faster
 PH> infrastructure rather than IPv6 per se. But to answer your question, I
 PH> don't know. Looking around tonight online it seems some telcos here
 PH> are offering it to enterprise clients but for a home user it's not so
 PH> clear.

Because your Regional Internet Registry, APNIC, was the first of the five RIRs to run out of IPv4 addresses in April 2011, one would expect the local ISPs to be among the first in the world to deploy IPv6. Apparently this is not so.

Here the situation is a bit better, but not much. There is one DSL provider (XS4ALL) and one cable provider (Zeelandnet) that offer native IPv6 to all customers. But they are small ones. The big ones, KPN (dsl), UPC and Ziggo (cable) do not offer anything to residential customers yet.

Fortunately free tunnels are still available I have two. One from SixXs and one from he.net.

 PH> It's not an area I'm that up with but I see other sysops making the
 PH> effort to offer that connectivity. I'd be interested to learn more...

You have come to the right place. ;-)


Cheers, Michiel

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