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Timwilky

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Re: Virgin Media and VOIP
I use Sipgate for my VOIP, I have 3 trunks that terminate to a rasPBX plus 2 basic SIP liines SIP phone in office and house, clients on smart phone and tablet.
2 years ago Place Speed
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
Until today, I couldn't. I usually use iperf, but all the public servers are outside of the UK, so I resorted to google with "IPv6 speedtest UK" that came up with myspeedmeter.net Their launch page has options for London with both IPv4 and ipV6
3 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
Tunneling from my pfsense box. Using Hurricane Electric free tunnel broker. I usually get 1150Mb on IPv4 so this tunnel overhead isn't bad.
3 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
I have a crazy BT situation. A small 60s build off the A6. We had a local exchange that disappeared in the 70s. The nearest green box is about half a mile to the south and the first 6 houses are connected to Chorley and have ultrafast. The rest are connected to Bamber Bridge about 4 miles to the north and have 3-5 Mb from a cabinet about a mile away.. It is so annoying seeing those with decent Internet get better. And those of us with nothing being neglected. I know this is a VM forum. But when you want what VM will not deliver. It would be nice to be able to walk.
3 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
Lucky you, 2024 is the latest date for the Aluminium cable to my house to be replaced with fibre. You would have thought Openreach would target their not spots first. But obviously as we do not have BT internet as unusable there is no demand.
3 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
I think VM/ Liberty Global actually listened. DS Lite is the worse of all options and walked away before customers did. A true dual stack or V4 only and continued use of a HE tunnel. Many of my remote PoPs are Ipv4 and then RFC1914 with NAT. CGNAT will always be a game ender
3 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
My bad. I have the full /48 routed to the home network not as my brain fog gave me a "/64" to use in my comment. My network is very flat and no need for segmentation beyond ensuring the suspect device such as Chinese CCTV are all on their own vlans. The interesting discovery I had was google homes, They fail when the tunnel goes down due to VM changing my ip address, as they still get ipv6 connectivity to the gateway and I haven't reset the end node with HE. If only the HE system would use a domain name rather than ip address to allow the DDNS to propogate to the tunnel.
3 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
I wish I could get FTTP, just for improved upload. The crazy thing for me is I live on a small 50s estate and the first 6 houses are served from a pole on the main road and have FTTP available from the Chorley exchange, the others are served from poles on the estate connected to Bamber Bridge with no FTTP available to us. we are scheduled to get FTTP by 2024 so stuck with VM for some time yet. Still I just checked my tunnel speed. I use PfSense to create the tunnel and deliver a /64 to the home network. So 600Mb download, so still some overhead from HE being consumed or capped.
3 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
Personal opinion is somebody in liberty global screwed up in deciding on DS-Lite. By the time the mistake was identified and buried IPv6 transition was buried with it. VM have never been able to properly manage IPv4. That is why we don't get static address etc. IPv6 where users are allocated a subnet must be a nightmare as you would reasonably expect that subnet to remain static. It would be great if it was the end users responsibility to request an IPv6 address and the network providers responsibility to route the advertised address. Come to think of it I did exactly that back in the late 80s when I requested a class b network and multiple operators have routed it for the past 30 years. Despite multiple ownership all seem pleased of that simple act 30 years ago.
5 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
The imposition of ds--lite woulld be sufficient for me to abandon my 500Mb VM for whatever I can get on 4g. I am 6 miles from the exchange with aluminium cable from the hole in the ground to the house. No FTTP so about 1.9Mb. Hence 4g is my next bet after VM. My home is about 50% dual stack. with my v6 tunnel from HE from my pfSense firewall giving me a /64 on the LAN.. I have about 15 devices running Tasmota which are IPv4 only. But they are all internet exposed through a reverse proxy with SSL encryption. So GC-NAT is no good for me. I work in locations that are IPv4 only. I need to be able to connect to my home resouces byIPv4. I have a Nord VPN, so perhaps their static end point is my other option to guarentee my IPv4 conectivity.
5 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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