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Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs

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Re: Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs

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Most consumers don't care, and home routers don't support it well

Most ISPs don't support it well, and will still give you a dynamic IP

Companies don't want to bet their reliability on something that fails as much, with an alternative that is working, and invest to maintain both and troubleshoot them

I will worry with IPV6 when I can safely disable IPV4, until then I disable IPV6

Re: Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs

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post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Prediction: CGNAT processing costs for gigabit subscribers will become neglible in the medium term (3-5 years). Not that it's wildly expensive today...

You are literally posting this comment on a story about CGNAT processing costs being wildly more expensive than a small ISP cares to deal with. To the point where they’re willing to buy and distribute AppleTVs to reduce costs. Even if that price decreases in real terms, washing a whole bunch of traffic through a big-ass NAT is always going to cost more than just not doing that.

The cost of an IPv4 address is around $50. Annualized it's a few dollars. So, that's the baseline for where CGNAT makes financial sense.

That's a lot less than the cost of an Apple TV.

Re: Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs

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post #9

I really hate Roku as a product, ads on the home screen and the remote(??) of something I paid for? No thanks. Though, I will concede it is cool to load mostly "unapproved" apps if the developer shares the app ID. (Certain x-rated sites liked to advertise they have a Roku app, something that would never make its way to most other TV boxes)

I promise you, LG's WebOS is worse in almost every conceivable way.

Rubbish. My webOS TV has proper filtering at the router level and has exactly 0 ads on it. Having full root access is great too.
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