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by schappim 890 days ago
Why is this data so spikey[1]?

Are the spikes in IP6 usage driven by work, home or mobile?

[1] https://files.littlebird.com.au/Shared-Image-2024-01-13-12-0...

2 comments

Good question! It's spiking up on weekends, the reason for that is that corporate networks are not as incentivized as large public ISPs to adopt IPv6. They have a lot more customers and are more directly affected by IPv4 exhaustion, especially the mobile providers.
Interestingly enough if you zoom in you'll notice that all the tips of the spikes are Saturdays.
I'd guess work VPNs don't implement IPv6 (why would they, if they only need to share 1 IPv4), which results to home internet usage being higher on the weekends.