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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
adhawkins wrote: I guess we'll find out when City Fibre come to do the install. The termination of the fibre in the pavement looks to be about 6 inches to the left of where the VM cable is terminated, so should be relatively straightforward I would hope. Install was today. All relatively straightforward. The guys were initially concerned about the number of bends they'd need to put in the cable. They went ahead though, and all seems to be up and running perfectly. The guy dug a small 'trench' in the lawn (a couple of inches wide) to bury the cable in, and filled it in afterwards. Looks a bit of a message at the moment (it was raining so the grass is churned up a fair bit as a result) but given a little while I'm sure that'll settle down. Speeds look good, and after a few minor issues I have fully working native IPv6 also. Andy
3 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
ChrisJenkins wrote: When CityFibre come to my area (it is' scheduled' apparently) I will certainly look at them. if they can provide a service at a suitable price point and do it without needing to dig up my front garden/drive then it may well be a no-brainer. I'm assuming they'll need to run a cable under my front lawn in the same way VM did when they install 20-odd years ago. From memory the just lifted up a relatively thin line of the turf, stuck a plastic pipe or something in there and ran the cable through that, then put the grass back. I guess we'll find out when City Fibre come to do the install. The termination of the fibre in the pavement looks to be about 6 inches to the left of where the VM cable is terminated, so should be relatively straightforward I would hope. Andy
3 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
Got my pre-order in with Giganet for FTTP with City Fibre. Static IPv4 and fully working IPv6 at 900 MBits/sec symmetric (for £41 a month). Just got to wait for them to finish the laying of the infrastructure so I can sort out an install date. Andy
3 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
If that graph is set to monitor an IPv6 address, then your 'router' must be sending ping replies to it. As such, it's probably your router not passing out correct details to the devices on your LAN if IPv6 isn't working. Andy
3 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
lewislfoster wrote: Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this but ive noticed im receiving ICMP6 router advertisements on my WAN interface and it does appear to give prefix information, i am yet to try to configure my router (pfsense, got a hub 4 in modem mode) for dual stack WAN, currently using hurricane electric's 6in4 tunnel for IPv6 connectivity (so far i havent noticed any performance issues with it). Ill try configuring my router to use prefixes from the router advertisement and see how it works (if at all) I think this has been mentioned before, although not sure prefixes were also being advertised. Be interested to hear how you get on. Andy
3 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
Timwilky wrote: If only the HE system would use a domain name rather than ip address to allow the DDNS to propogate to the tunnel. pfsense can do this for you automatically. There's a Dynamic DNS provider specifically called 'HE.net Tunnelbroker'. You need to specify the 'tunnel ID' (from the HE web interface) as the hostname, and then your username and update key as the username and password. Andy
4 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
jamesmacwhite wrote: What's going to be first to go live, an alternative FTTP provider or Virgin Media deploying IPv6. The race is on! I think I know where I'd put my money if I were a gambling man... Andy
4 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
I bought an i5 based mini router thingy from China, and stuck pfSense on it. Seems to run well. I 'only' get about 500-600 MBits/sec out of my IPv6 link to HE with it (over 900MBits/sec on IPv4), but to be honest that's more than enough. Andy
4 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
On a slightly positive note, the Hub 4 that I'm on now after upgrading to Gigabit seems to have less issues with IPv6 tunnels such as those provided by Hurricane Electric. Previously I would typically get something like 20 MBits/sec through my HE tunnel on my 350 MBits/sec connection. Sometimes I would get periods where I would get almost the full rate, but these seemed few and far between. However, I'm now getting something like 900-950 MBits/sec on my IPv4 link, with speeds generally in excess of 500 MBits/sec over the HE IPv6 tunnel. While this isn't ideal, it's a whole lot better than it used to be. Andy
4 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
Hi, It was with test-ipv6, yes. However, I got 300 MBits/sec on it, when typically I would only get about 30 MBits/sec when it's 'slow'. I doubt that could be accounted for by some sort of test variance. Will run another test next time I'm on a 'wired' PC and see if it's consistent. I've had speeds like this in the past, but they never seem to last long. Andy
5 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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