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scrlk|4 months ago

Virgin Media in the UK are somewhat infamous for being non-committal about IPv6. There was a thread that ran for 13 years on their forums about it (locked in 2023): https://community.virginmedia.com/discussions/Setup/ipv6-sup...

Also: https://www.havevirginmediaenabledipv6yet.co.uk/

CaptainOfCoit|4 months ago

According to https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html, I think it's safe to say that the majority of ISPs are not offering IPv6, and some ISPs do offer IPv6.

My ISP publicly supports IPv6, but I've never gotten it to work properly, and none of the technical support I've been able to been forwarded to knows what's wrong either. Colleagues using the same ISP has the same problem, so doesn't seem to be an isolated incident.

I'm sure there are more people out there in the same situation.

usr1106|4 months ago

If you look at the weekly profiles you'll notice that offices/companied are lagging behind private users. IT departments not willing to do anything. And IPv6 is used a lot on phones.

b112|4 months ago

They, as I, are waiting for ipv8. A simple addition of a 5th octlet, and a 6th for 'planet'.

orangeboats|4 months ago

Oh no, the Godwin's law equivalent for networking is proving itself once again.

>someone will again complain about the address format, without realizing that shoving in extra address bits on an IPv4 datagram is already a new protocol

So you are having all the pains of transitioning to a new Internet Protocol, but none of the benefits of having an actually huge address space.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39258290

ay|4 months ago

Telenet and Proximus do, so if you are in their service area, why not switch ? (Don’t know about Voo, I live in Brussels).

My mobile connectivity comes via Mobile Vikings which are now part of Proximus - also IPv6 there, and I love their excellent service.

rwky|4 months ago

Not just ISPs github and npm still don't and AWS is iffy too.

tonymet|4 months ago

Or Ziply Residential

bityard|4 months ago

For all of the bullshit that is Comcast and their ongoing mission to fully enshittify every single aspect of last-mile Internet delivery at the expense of consumers and taxpayers, I will say that at least they've had great IPv6 support for well over a decade at this point.

bigstrat2003|4 months ago

Yeah, I'm a Comcast customer and I'm very happy with their IPv6 support. The only things I would want different are a prefix larger than a /60 (say a /56), and the ability to have a permanently assigned prefix on my residential connection (but that's unlikely, I know). As evil as the Comcast business people are, their engineers clearly are trying to do right by customers.