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IPv6 adoption rate above 3% even on Mondays now

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Re: IPv6 adoption rate above 3% even on Mondays now

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Does your ISP actually assign you multiple Internet addresses for every device in your home or do you still use NAT? If you still use NAT, what the heck is the point in using IPv6 at home?

The router does stateless auto config so every machine in the house that does v6 has a static IP. You get a /64

That's neat!

Re: IPv6 adoption rate above 3% even on Mondays now

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There's a pretty massive bump in IPv6 usage on weekends. I'm assuming this is likely due to residential / mobile IPv6 adoption being higher than commercial adoption?

Yes, that's pretty much been my assumption. Perhaps you might also be watching longer videos on YouTube from home or using more Google services from home - but I think it does have more to do with residential adoption.

Re: IPv6 adoption rate above 3% even on Mondays now

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Even if it is available a lot of companies just don't have the experience with IPv6 and are hesitant to turn it on. Which BTW sucks when you are trying to test your product on IPv6.

This is our problem. People just don't understand it in the operations team. Our devops guys know it inside out but they have to use the services the operations team hand out which means v4 and shitty hardware. Yes corporate structure sucks. The silly thing is that there are several NATs and brick walls in the company which wouldn't need to exist with v6. I myself am v6 end to end at home. Linode at the head end and…

I too am full IPv6 at home. Got SLAAC handing out addresses from a /64 I am assigned from my ISP.

Stateful firewall on the primary gateway to the internet :-) Love IPv6!!!

I am on Comcast, so I have native dual stack internet. IPv4 and IPv6.

Re: IPv6 adoption rate above 3% even on Mondays now

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There's a pretty massive bump in IPv6 usage on weekends. I'm assuming this is likely due to residential / mobile IPv6 adoption being higher than commercial adoption?

Even if it is available a lot of companies just don't have the experience with IPv6 and are hesitant to turn it on. Which BTW sucks when you are trying to test your product on IPv6.

You need to be able to show a business benefit before making changes like that; right now changing to ipv6 would give no benefit, require replacement of existing hardware and create additional troubleshooting load.

Until that changes there won't be widespread adoption of ipv6 by businesses.

Re: IPv6 adoption rate above 3% even on Mondays now

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I think it's important to note that in the US it's up to 7.34%. Quite impressive considering the lack of urgency by ISPs.

And a staggeringly awful 0.24% in the UK.

Theres no real pressure here at the moment, so they won't do it in any hurry. Its not like theres a massive growth in houses being built.

Re: IPv6 adoption rate above 3% even on Mondays now

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I think it's important to note that in the US it's up to 7.34%. Quite impressive considering the lack of urgency by ISPs.

Comcast recently started rolling out IPv6 to standard residential accounts. I'm guessing a lot of people are now using IPv6 and didn't even notice.

Re: IPv6 adoption rate above 3% even on Mondays now

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I think it's important to note that in the US it's up to 7.34%. Quite impressive considering the lack of urgency by ISPs.

Comcast recently started rolling out IPv6 to standard residential accounts. I'm guessing a lot of people are now using IPv6 and didn't even notice.

Verizon Wireless is over 50% v6. My phone is v6. If I hadn't tried a "what's my IP" on my phone I wouldn't have noticed (which is how it should be).

Re: IPv6 adoption rate above 3% even on Mondays now

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I think it's important to note that in the US it's up to 7.34%. Quite impressive considering the lack of urgency by ISPs.

Absolutely. The US also the home of what percentage of the IPv4 space? Must be a big part of that cake. With that very coarse view you'd expect them to be the last ones to need IPv6.
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