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by feld 4215 days ago
I would agree that carrier grade NAT is a downgrade
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cm2187 4215 days ago
It's horrible. I don't even see the point. IPv4 and an IPv6 can cohabit. Why would they even alter your IPv4 access?
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lotu 4215 days ago
Presumably because they have run out of IPV4 addresses
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tveita 4215 days ago
Australia is under APNIC, which started rationing out its last /8 IP block in 2011.

Australia has a decent number of allocated addresses, around 2 per capita (compare with India, with 29 addresses per 1000 persons)[1], but presumably they will have to be reclaimed from existing users.

A newly started ISP in Australia could get a maximum of 2048 IPv4 addresses from APNIC. [2] If it needed more it would have to transfer them from another owner.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_IPv4_addre...

[2] http://www.apnic.net/community/ipv4-exhaustion/ipv4-exhausti...

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mineo 4215 days ago
They were talking about Austria (in Europe), not Australia :-)
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Coincoin 4215 days ago
Sorry, there are no kangaroos in Austria.
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anonymfus 4215 days ago
the_mitsuhiko is from Austria, not from Australia.
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