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by laurensr 242 days ago
Meanwhile some ISPs are still not offering IPv6, such as Orange Belgium.
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Virgin Media in the UK are somewhat infamous for being non-committal about IPv6. There was a thread that ran for 13 years on their forums about it (locked in 2023): https://community.virginmedia.com/discussions/Setup/ipv6-sup...

Also: https://www.havevirginmediaenabledipv6yet.co.uk/

According to https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html, I think it's safe to say that the majority of ISPs are not offering IPv6, and some ISPs do offer IPv6.

My ISP publicly supports IPv6, but I've never gotten it to work properly, and none of the technical support I've been able to been forwarded to knows what's wrong either. Colleagues using the same ISP has the same problem, so doesn't seem to be an isolated incident.

I'm sure there are more people out there in the same situation.

If you look at the weekly profiles you'll notice that offices/companied are lagging behind private users. IT departments not willing to do anything. And IPv6 is used a lot on phones.
They, as I, are waiting for ipv8. A simple addition of a 5th octlet, and a 6th for 'planet'.
Oh no, the Godwin's law equivalent for networking is proving itself once again.

>someone will again complain about the address format, without realizing that shoving in extra address bits on an IPv4 datagram is already a new protocol

So you are having all the pains of transitioning to a new Internet Protocol, but none of the benefits of having an actually huge address space.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39258290

No, it's very simple.

You set a bit, and if set it's routed using 6 octlets. If the bit isn't set, it's routed via 1.1.x.x.x.x.

Yes, legacy can only reach 1.1.x.x.x.x.

Done.

How is your proposal _materially_ different from today's NAT64 and the 64:ff9b::x.x.x.x prefix?
It doesn't include ipv6, and therefore ipv6's broken everything. It's just 100% ipv4 + two extra octlets.
Do you really think your solution of "IPv4 with extra octets" will not introduce so called "broken everything"...?

Whether it's the addition of one octet or twelve octets, you are nevertheless introducing a new Internet Protocol, and therefore you are going to face the reality of introducing a new Internet Protocol.

To think otherwise is delusional and is the reason why the "Godwin's law of networking" has become sort of a meme.

Telenet and Proximus do, so if you are in their service area, why not switch ? (Don’t know about Voo, I live in Brussels).

My mobile connectivity comes via Mobile Vikings which are now part of Proximus - also IPv6 there, and I love their excellent service.

Not just ISPs github and npm still don't and AWS is iffy too.
Or Ziply Residential
For all of the bullshit that is Comcast and their ongoing mission to fully enshittify every single aspect of last-mile Internet delivery at the expense of consumers and taxpayers, I will say that at least they've had great IPv6 support for well over a decade at this point.
Yeah, I'm a Comcast customer and I'm very happy with their IPv6 support. The only things I would want different are a prefix larger than a /60 (say a /56), and the ability to have a permanently assigned prefix on my residential connection (but that's unlikely, I know). As evil as the Comcast business people are, their engineers clearly are trying to do right by customers.