Subj : Basic Steps / Checks to look at IPv6
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Stephen Walsh
Date : Sun May 10 2015 10:41:28

Hello Michiel.

05 May 15 13:34, you wrote to me:

 PH>>> I figured that may be the case. It looks like it will be a
 PH>>> tunnel for me and BinkD leading the charge

 SW>> Yeh.. ISP's are draging the chain badly.

 MV> Indeed they do. Us customers however are not totally helpless. It may
 MV> be different on your neck of the woods, but here there is some
 MV> competition between the adsl and the cable providers. One can say to
 MV> the fiber boys: "No IPv6? Then sorry, no fiber yet".

At least you have the option of fibre. The NBN (National Broadband Network) 
rollout here isn't bringing fibre to my part of
town. It's going to be years before we see it. That's why last november we 
moved from a ADLS2+ connection (9mb down/800k up)
to a HFC connection of 25mb down/5mb up.

There is compettition here between ISP's. The main thing is weather the two 
main telco's (Telstra/Optus) has gear in the local
exchange to give people ADSL.

The HFC network's dont cover a lot of places. Mainly capital's and a few 
regional towns that are big enough. (ie: Ballarat [my
town], Geelong. iiNet now ownes the network here).

This link pretty much sums up what happened here is Australia! (Although it's 
now a little out of date)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Australia


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Broadband_Network




Stephen

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