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by supertrope 1722 days ago
Video chat. File transfers without a third party host. Cell phones almost always only offer a public address over v6. Internet gaming. VPNs without address conflicts. Not being banned from Wikipedia because someone else with the same CGNAT ISP got banned.
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jonathantf2 1722 days ago
For the average consumer they don't notice a difference. Both my home and mobile ISPs have said they have no plans to offer IPv6 connectivity because it's not a requirement.

Users don't care, and until a lot of them do ISPs won't do anything.

People can still video chat, play games and use VPNs without v6.

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supertrope 1721 days ago
It usually manifests as gamers asking about "strict NAT":

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/connect... https://kb.netgear.com/19844/Why-does-my-Xbox-say-NAT-is-set...

Part of why video chat quality sucks is because the RTP traffic has to be sent through a proxy to deal with NAT, doubling load on the Internet and increasing latency.

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