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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So finally, for unrelated reasons, VM Business replaced my old Hitron router with one of the new GigaBit capable Chita units. Surprise, surprise (not), my HE 6in4 tunnel now consistently gives close to IPv4 speeds (I am on 500 Mbit service, not GigaBit [yet])
So, at least in my case, the problem was most definitely the old generation VM hardware (SuperHub 3 and Hitron).
I am, for now, a (relatively) happy bunny.
ChrisJenkins wrote:So finally, for unrelated reasons, VM Business replaced my old Hitron router with one of the new GigaBit capable Chita units. Surprise, surprise (not), my HE 6in4 tunnel now consistently gives close to IPv4 speeds (I am on 500 Mbit service, not GigaBit [yet])
So, at least in my case, the problem was most definitely the old generation VM hardware (SuperHub 3 and Hitron).
I am, for now, a (relatively) happy bunny.
Excellent. Does the Chita unit still have the ability to do the GRE tunnel for static IPs?
TonyJr wrote:
ChrisJenkins wrote:So finally, for unrelated reasons, VM Business replaced my old Hitron router with one of the new GigaBit capable Chita units. Surprise, surprise (not), my HE 6in4 tunnel now consistently gives close to IPv4 speeds (I am on 500 Mbit service, not GigaBit [yet])
So, at least in my case, the problem was most definitely the old generation VM hardware (SuperHub 3 and Hitron).
I am, for now, a (relatively) happy bunny.
Excellent. Does the Chita unit still have the ability to do the GRE tunnel for static IPs?
I'd be amazed if it doesn't since they are (still) a standard 'optional' feature of the VM business package. But I use mine exclusively in 'modem mode' so I'm afraid I can't confirm that for sure.
10 weeks along and still getting close to IPv4 speeds over my HE IPv6 tunnel. So I think it is safe to say that the new Chita unit has fixed this issue. Shame it took them so long...
To be honest, I don't think they really intended to fix the issue with 6in4. Based on the evidence and what we now know, the hardware they had been using for their CPEs was unable to route 6in4 packets fast enough or was given low priority with CPU processing to be noticeably slow and bottlenecked but with their gigabit capable hardware, it has just nicely coincided with needing more powerful CPUs to route at gigabit speeds that 6in4 packets are no longer impacted or it is much less visible, but glad it seems to be resolved, for Hub4, Hub5 and the Chita unit for VM Business.
Now where's that native IPv6 at VM?! Oh yeah hiding away in Router Advertisements teasing us.
