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Re: India is almost 80% IPv6

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cypress66 wrote: post #109
9dev wrote: post #34

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Forcing micro USB and now USB-C on electronic devices has been one of the best ideas by the EU overall. Remember using ten different charging cables? Gone, due to a helpful piece of regulation by the government.

Except for Apple, all phone makers managed to agree to the USB-C standard without any government regulation. What you're referring to is a very recent law (months old) that will take effect in 2024. And it could limit future newer ports that are technologically superior (like lightning was when the standard was micro USB)

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Re: India is almost 80% IPv6

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Post by 9dev »

cypress66 wrote: post #109
9dev wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forcing micro USB and now USB-C on electronic devices has been one of the best ideas by the EU overall. Remember using ten different charging cables? Gone, due to a helpful piece of regulation by the government.

Except for Apple, all phone makers managed to agree to the USB-C standard without any government regulation. What you're referring to is a very recent law (months old) that will take effect in 2024. And it could limit future newer ports that are technologically superior (like lightning was when the standard was micro USB)

This is one of the situations where the proliferation of standards is preferable to technological superiority. I far prefer USB-C to be ubiquitously available over having marginally higher transfer or charging speed.

Re: India is almost 80% IPv6

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Post by extra88 »

qalmakka wrote: post #99
theamk wrote: post #86

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From practical standpoint, most common NAT setups come with "default deny incoming" firewall, and systems have relied on this fot a very long time. I hope that IPv6 is rolled out to homes, most ISPs would do the right thing and set up customer routers firewall in "default deny incoming " mode. Otherwise, the number of worms would increase a lot.

We may argue that Windows Firewall (and macOS) by default already do that. On Linux, I usually set nftables like such on all my machines, but it's trivial for "user friendly" distros to ship sane defaults for nftables. What scares me a lot is that lots of folks out there still rely on iptables, and do not realize that they need ip6tables to set IPv6 tables - I dread of the moment some random ISP will push IPv6 routes…

The many embedded devices in homes are much scarier than home sysadmins not configuring their boxes correctly.

Re: India is almost 80% IPv6

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Post by ftth_finland »

olivermuty wrote: post #94
ftth_finland wrote: post #63

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Significantly cheaper is a bit of an overstatement. Savings are pretty much capped at one month of internet service, as that’s roughly what an IPv4 address costs.

8.33% is not a significant gain to you?

Not really, especially as it’s not 8.33%, since it’s not a yearly cost, but a lifetime cost.

Re: India is almost 80% IPv6

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Post by wtmt »

blackoil wrote: post #72
wtmt wrote: post #31

FWIW, airtel broadband, one of the largest (or the largest?) fixed line broadband providers, doesn’t offer IPv6 for all customers. It seems like mobile broadband from even a lower ranking provider (like Vi) does offer it. I doubt if all ISPs will meet this goal by the end of this year. Source: My current Internet connections.

How old is your router. At least for new connections, I have seen the IPv6 assigned.

The modem is less than a year old. But airtel doesn’t give an IPv6 address. This is in one of the major cities where one would expect technology to be advanced.
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