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dgcarter's avatar
dgcarter
Dialled in
15 years ago

IPv6 support on Virgin media

Does anyone know whether (and if so when) Virgin plan to implement IPv6 on its network?
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adhawkins's avatar
adhawkins
Up to speed
6 years ago

How are you testing your ipv6 speed?

I just ran a test here: http://test.telenor.net/

I was monitoring traffic through my internet gateway, and it was definitely going through HE. I got full rate up and down.

However, repeating the tests now I'm getting much lower rates, so I wonder if HE have some sort of throttling if you use a large amount of data in a short time?

Andy

 

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
6 years ago

Both ksim and I were using think broadband speed test which should be an apples to apples comparison.

I've not seen any evidence of throttling even after a lot of heavy ipv6 usage on HE (all YouTube traffic goes via ipv6 for example).

Is there anything about how the tunnels are configured that might cause a problem? I use plain vanila OpenWRT 18.06 with everything configured through the LuCI web gui. My connection is through an SH1 in modem mode.

  • ksim's avatar
    ksim
    Up to speed
    6 years ago

    I am using Mikrotik, the configuration was done using the console, standard "6to4 Tunnel" followed the documentation on HE site, no shaping is configured on the router (did a clean setup), VM hub is in modem mode. CPU usage on my Mikrotik as about 0%, the same configuration worked fine with other providers.

    my traceroute:
    traceroute -w 1 -n 216.66.88.98
 1  192.168.1.2  0.895 ms  0.245 ms  0.240 ms
traceroute to 216.66.88.98 (216.66.88.98), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 2  * * *
 3  62.255.32.121  11.692 ms  10.841 ms  10.045 ms
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  62.254.42.174  22.375 ms  15.433 ms  15.507 ms
 8  * * *
 9  84.116.132.5  28.421 ms  27.805 ms  30.051 ms
10  84.116.130.102  36.167 ms  28.854 ms  27.145 ms
11  216.66.87.125  36.936 ms  28.858 ms  28.143 ms
12  184.105.80.37  48.856 ms  27.011 ms  28.013 ms
13  216.66.88.98  28.061 ms  27.859 ms  26.987 ms
    • ksim's avatar
      ksim
      Up to speed
      6 years ago

      tried a different IPv6 tunnel provider, https://ipv6.ip4market.ru/, the same picture, speed is not going higher than 20Mbps.

      • adhawkins's avatar
        adhawkins
        Up to speed
        6 years ago

        When I start the download from that site, initially I get bit rates around the 300 MBits/sec, but after 10-20 seconds the bit rate drops down to more like 20 MBits/sec.

        Something odd going on I think!

        Andy

         

    • TonyJr's avatar
      TonyJr
      Up to speed
      6 years ago
      ksim wrote:

      I am using Mikrotik, the configuration was done using the console, standard "6to4 Tunnel" followed the documentation on HE site, no shaping is configured on the router (did a clean setup), VM hub is in modem mode. CPU usage on my Mikrotik as about 0%, the same configuration worked fine with other providers.

      my traceroute:
      traceroute -w 1 -n 216.66.88.98
 1  192.168.1.2  0.895 ms  0.245 ms  0.240 ms
traceroute to 216.66.88.98 (216.66.88.98), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 2  * * *
 3  62.255.32.121  11.692 ms  10.841 ms  10.045 ms
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  62.254.42.174  22.375 ms  15.433 ms  15.507 ms
 8  * * *
 9  84.116.132.5  28.421 ms  27.805 ms  30.051 ms
10  84.116.130.102  36.167 ms  28.854 ms  27.145 ms
11  216.66.87.125  36.936 ms  28.858 ms  28.143 ms
12  184.105.80.37  48.856 ms  27.011 ms  28.013 ms
13  216.66.88.98  28.061 ms  27.859 ms  26.987 ms

      I am using a very similar setup with a MikroTik CCR1009, but with VM business. I migrated from residential to businesses, just the modem was swapped same cable etc.

       

      I am also seeing this throttling. It has been happening for more than 4 months for me, when I was on residential and has not changed since.

       

      I am going to try to find out which hop the throttling occurs on.

       

      TonyJr