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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I was under the impression that no traffic shaping currently takes place.
A quick google doesn't seem to show me anything.
The old page on VM Site links to a document that is basically empty, it has boxes to be filled in with what sort of shaping takes place, but they are not filled in at all.
Just curious if you have a source.
Hello
Yep you are right VM stopped traffic shaping/throttling a few years ago June 2018. As stated in https://www.virginmedia.com/help/virgin-media-broadband-traffic-management-policy.
With regards to IPv6 VM did trail it a while ago and never took off, VM decided in the UK that as they have enough IPv4 addresses themselves it did't take off as the system they trailed wasn't full IPv6, mind you saying that from what I have seen around is that VM Eire used IPv6 as default for the consumer market.
A lot of VM backend systems are already IPv6 like this forum as if you use a tunnel and check your profile it shows an IPv6 address. I personally use Hurricane Electric - https://www.tunnelbroker.net tunnel via a pfSense box.
Regards Mike
Regards Mike
DJ_Shadow1966 wrote:I personally use Hurricane Electric - https://www.tunnelbroker.net tunnel via a pfSense box.
I'd be interested to know what sort of comparative IPv4 vs. IPv6 performance you are getting with this (e.g. using https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest or https://ipv6-test.com/speedtest/ ). I'm still seeing my connection limited to ~14Mbps on IPv6 but getting the full 100Mbps+ on IPv4. Historically performance used to be virtually identical.
The oddball routing problems where traffic to HE was going via Germany and France back to the tunnel end-point in London were resolved long ago.
I recently upgraded my OpenWRT router to 19.07 (which had a significant kernel update for my device) and there was no change in the performance and the device doesn't appear to be suffering. I also raise the issue with HE support and they were not able to see any issues with the tunnel end-point I was using.
DJ_Shadow1966 wrote:With regards to IPv6 VM did trail it a while ago and never took off, VM decided in the UK that as they have enough IPv4 addresses themselves
Perfect proof of incompetence on all levels, IPv6 is not solving the shortage of IPv4, it just CAN'T as the protocols are not compatible. The shortage of IPv4 can be solved only by NAT. Take a look at cellphone mobile operators, they have small IPv4 pools and a lot of moving clients, are they early adopters of IPv6? Nope, they just did NAT, and this even not noticed by clients.