[HN Gopher] United States IPv6 adoption over 50%
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United States IPv6 adoption over 50%
Author : Sami_Lehtinen
Score : 34 points
Date : 2021-12-31 20:16 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| wnevets wrote:
| I wonder what percentage of that is mobile traffic .
| vidanay wrote:
| About 5 years ago, I asked the owner of my fixed wireless ISP if
| he was planning to support IPv6 and I received a 500 word email
| rant about the uselessness of v6. I haven't asked again. (I still
| get a 0/10 score at https://test-ipv6.com/)
| sneak wrote:
| There is a lot of cultural inertia that instantly biases
| against anything new in sysadmin/netadmin circles.
|
| It's super annoying, tbh. A subset of technologists only seem
| comfortable with the technology that was available when they
| were 18-24, regardless of how old they get.
|
| "What's this? I never needed it before, what's the sysctl to
| turn it off?"
| themitigating wrote:
| There's a bias against anything new in human circles
| orev wrote:
| There is a lot of cultural inertia that instantly biases
| against anything old and stable in developer circles.
|
| It's super annoying, tbh. A subset of developers only seem
| comfortable with technology invented in the past 18-24
| months, regardless of how untested and unstable it is.
|
| "What's this? It was written 2 years ago? It must be old and
| useless. I'm going to require my app to use the latest
| version and I don't care what kind of headaches it makes for
| the people who actually need to make sure it's up an running
| when users try to use it."
| colechristensen wrote:
| Both things are true and equally annoying.
| zorked wrote:
| Just witness the pitchfork army whenever systemd is
| mentioned.
| bilal4hmed wrote:
| 0/10 for Xfinity as well on test-ipv6
| btbuilder wrote:
| I've used ipv6 on xfinity for years, but I do use my own
| equipment. Unless there are regional differences it's important
| to make sure it is set up right in your router.
| bilal4hmed wrote:
| oh damn, let me check on my router then
| tesin wrote:
| You're absolutely right. I'm in the same situation. 10/10
| ipv6, but it took a lot of configuration. I'm sure if the
| parent commenter connected their device directly to their
| modem via ethernet they'd find they had a functioning ipv6
| address. Comcast is terrible for lots of reasons, ipv6 isn't
| one of them.
| jacob019 wrote:
| While I generally hate comcast, xfinity has good ipv6 support.
| It may be an issue with your router configuration.
| etbusch wrote:
| Xfinity provides /64 prefixes to their customers. There must be
| some missing configuration on your router.
|
| I have a 10/10 score.
| eximius wrote:
| I'm pretty sure I have IPv6, I just haven't figured out how to
| set it up on my Mikrotik router :/
| cbdumas wrote:
| I got IPv6 working via 6rd on my Mikrotik router a few weeks
| ago following this forum post
| https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=160314#p788221
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| If you don't need a tunnel it should be pretty painless, just
| set up firewall rules and enable IPv6 forwarding
| jachee wrote:
| Alas most Verizon Fios customers are still out of luck.
| scoopertrooper wrote:
| Am I the only one that hates IPv6 ergonomics? I have to
| transcribe IPv4 addresses all the time, I'd hate to try and do it
| with a 128 bit address. Could they not have gone with 64 bit
| addresses, was 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 addresses really not
| enough?
| dmitshur wrote:
| If https://apenwarr.ca/log/20110328 is still current, you're
| not the only one.
| londons_explore wrote:
| Half the bits are unusable anyway...
| lnxg33k1 wrote:
| As said in another reply, I've been in contact with IPv6 for
| like 20 years and every year I have to understand it again I
| fully agree with you and would even say that even 48 bits could
| have done something with 281,474,976,710,656 values possible
| jacob019 wrote:
| SLAAC works well and wouldn't without a >= 64 bit subnet. In a
| typical /64 assignment, the ipv6 equivalent of the 32-bit ipv4
| public ip is the 64-bit _prefix_ , I think doubling the address
| space is appropriate.
| Latty wrote:
| Maybe a bit glib, but I see this as a good thing: a reason to
| finally fix whatever process requires you to transcribe IP
| addresses, which is a pain to do even with v4 ones.
| ericj5 wrote:
| we only need to get to 70% adoption before the rest of us get it
| via herd immunity. won't be long now
| diegocg wrote:
| In Facebook stats, the USA percentage is even higher (59%)
| Hamuko wrote:
| Might be that more people use Facebook on their phones. I'd
| guess Google is more representative of overall Internet usage.
| colanderman wrote:
| Naming and shaming: still not available on RCN.
| Hamuko wrote:
| My ISP is apparently going to adopt IPv6 for fixed connections
| this year, so something to look forwards to. I think they've
| already had them for years for wireless.
| tills13 wrote:
| What's with the cyclical "Ebb and Flow" of IPv6 if you select
| "IPv6 Adoption" and zoom in?
| wmf wrote:
| People have IPv6 at home but not at work (or though the work
| VPN these days).
| modeless wrote:
| The peaks are Saturdays because consumer connections are more
| likely to be v6 than business connections.
| bratao wrote:
| Remainder that Cloudflare when using HCaptcha bot verification
| still do not support IPV6. It is impossible to solve it when you
| have a IPv6-only connection.
| pathartl wrote:
| I wish my fiber ISP was part of that 50%. But nope, here I am
| behind a CGNAT and was promised IPv6 adoption about a year ago.
| Unfortunately the only other options in my area (downtown
| Milwaukee) are some form of wireless, DSL, or Spectrum.
|
| Don't get me wrong, even though my speeds are only about 50% of
| spec (gigabit symmetric), the upload speed alone is a reason to
| avoid any other provider. I'm also paying about $25/m less than
| the equivalent download on Spectrum.
| daxuak wrote:
| So does mine. The only v6 option is comcast and I'm not
| switching.
| [deleted]
| lnxg33k1 wrote:
| So my italian ISP, gives me FTTH, 1gb/s down , 300mb/s up but
| has 10/10 for ipv6 https://i.imgur.com/lhz4RJy.png
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| I would rather have 700mb/s more for upload than ipv6 to be
| honest (only thing I also have public/static ipv4, so maybe
| that I wouldn't give up ^^)
| lnxg33k1 wrote:
| Shit Italy adoption sucks, that's so curious like I am 34 years
| old now but I think I've used IPv6 since I was like 13-14 years
| old, with tunnels like sixxs and before that there was also
| another one I forgot the name of, now my italian provider
| (fastweb fiber) supports it natively, but yeah just wondering
| now, we sometimes say that tech world changes fast, but can you
| imagine like how long things like ipv6 have been around, and
| still haven't had much of an impact from a practical point of
| view? Like I have a book of abount 150 pages that talks about
| IPv6, can you imagine that like every year I have to read it
| again because I just can't seem to retain the knowledge? Not just
| if it is just like something like XML too focused on machine and
| not very human friendly, or if it is like unmnemonic, or that you
| don't get in contact with it ever.. it's so curious for me
| zamadatix wrote:
| Before everyone laments their ISP is part of the slow half
| remember the majority of this migration is still driven by the
| switch to users browsing on mobile device networks rather than a
| traditional desktop on a hardline. E.g. T-Mobile is IPv6 only for
| a number of years now, using 464XLAT to let customers access IPv4
| only services.
|
| Also I'll throw in the standard "HN is still v4 only" :).
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