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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
It would be pretty great if they started a trial. I would love to be on such trial, even if this would that I'd have to live with some potential issues while they're trying to sort it out, as I'm sure a number of users here would as well! Come on, Virgin Media, start a "enthusiast IPv6 trial" already! :D3.5KViews2likes372CommentsRe: IPv6 support on Virgin media
Oh absolutely! That's absolutely true. What I'm baffled by is something else. VM already has a large customer base, which are all currently sitting on IPv4. I'm assuming the majority (if not all) of them are on dedicated IPs, assuming VM didn't exhaust their pool. Running IPv6 and IPv4 side by side shouldn't change anything at all. It's (simplifying a bit) basically just giving the users access to IPv6 with dedicated addresses for each user, and leaving IPv4 in place as it is. Sure, once you get more users, and you run out of available addresses, new users will be put on DS Lite - it's unavoidable. But until then, I see no point in changing the infrastructure and forcing most existing users on DS Lite, and giving them a considerably worse service than before. (I'm hoping they won't do the latter.. I'm just concerned about it, based on what i read so far) This would just turn people against IPv6. Remember - most users are not technical, so when support will tell them: > Oh, we turned on this fancy new feature IPv6 on your internet, that's why you're now having issues on your XBox and Skype. What does it do? Oh, nothing much, same as before - gives you access to the whole internet. The users will just go back and say that IPv6 ruined their internet, roll it back NOW..2.9KViews2likes4CommentsRe: IPv6 support on Virgin media
Optimist1 wrote: Some news here http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2016/11/virgin-media-plans-adopt-ipv6-middle-2017.html Quote from the article: > The spokesperson said that at the moment only about 30% of traffic can be IPv6 and the rest needs to be translated to IPv4 Goddarn idiots - they really are planning to go with DS-Lite, aren't they? So when they'd turn this atrocity on, we'd lose our public IPv4 addresses and sit behind a NAT we have no control over! I really want IPv6 to go live. I really do. I've set up websites and networks running IPv6, and I'd love to get proper IPv6 at home as well, but as Switch in the Matrix said: Not like this If that's what they're planning to do, I might as well just leave VM and find a better ISP before the S storm comes -_-3KViews2likes6Comments