WiteWulf
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin Media
Just wanted to chime in and mourn the loss of the 10 year old original IPv6 thread. It had become a bit of legend; at least it's still there, even if it's locked. As I noted back in 2023, CityFibre are coming to my area and they're finally pulling fibre on my street, so I should be free of Vermin Media in the next few months 😀1.2KViews0likes1CommentRe: IPv6 support on Virgin media
100% CityFibre are cabling Loughborough at the moment, and I'm hoping they'll move out to where I am (other side of the M1) soon. Only other option we have here is ~16Mb/s ADSL, which really isn't an option in this day and age. That said, I should watch what I post on here. As soon as I started posting snarky comments today my cable modem went off line. Coincidence? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!! 🤣2.1KViews1like0CommentsRe: IPv6 support on Virgin media
Zach, with the greatest of respect, why are you bothering in a thread that’s been running for eleven years and 127 pages, and is entirely community supported? 🙂 It’s good of you to take an interest, but unless you can offer some concrete information on Virgin’s IPv6 plans I don’t see the point in this. Do you have a quota of support forum posts to meet each week?2.8KViews3likes0CommentsRe: IPv6 support on Virgin media
I can't speak directly to the SH hardware VM are using, but I work with high-end Cisco switches and routers at work and we see similar problems to this regularly. The ASICs on linecards are highly optimised to process certain types of traffic very, very quickly to be able to maintain line speed. Any type of traffic that isn't specifically optimised gets handed over to the CPU instead. But if you see a large amount of this unexpected traffic (nb. I'm not saying this NON-STANDARD, it's all in the RFCs, it's just traffic that the hardware hasn't been OPTIMISED for) it can overwhelm the CPU in a badly designed system, or just result in poor performance for that traffic type. As I say, I have no knowledge of what's going on inside this hardware, but it seems very possible that this could be the issue here. It may not be on the CPE, either, but somewhere further upstream in the VM/LG network.2.6KViews2likes1CommentRe: IPv6 support on Virgin media
Sad to say I'm seeing no improvement here in rural Leics on a SH3 with HE tunnel terminated on an OpenWrt router. IPv6 testing using dslreports and ipv6-test.com shows throughput no higher than ~17mb/s. wget'ing a file over http from a server on a 20gb/s connection maxes out my 200mb/s connection on IPv4, but similarly gets no higher than ~17mb/s on IPv6 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯1.7KViews0likes3CommentsRe: IPv6 support on Virgin media
"You can also of course go the simpler route and set up IPv6 connectivity on an individual host basis more easily (H.E gives you up 5 tunnels per account) if you don't need your entire LAN with IPv6 connectivity." That's not the right way to do it. Different tunnels are meant for different physical locations. Each tunnel provides a /64 by default, but you can also request multiple /48 networks on each tunnel. If you're setting up tunnels on a host by host basis all your LAN traffic (using your delegated prefixes, at least, not locally scoped traffic) will be tromboning through the he.net servers, it'll be awfully slow