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Bah! Who stole my interwebs?!
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Wtf xd
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what's going on? can someone fill me in?
What it these?
The act of increasing our post increases our LowEndKarma.
Why is a post from 2011 being bumped now?
oh I didn't notice that
So, four years later @KuJoe have you found your interwebs?
I have but unfortunately IPv4 is slow as hell (less than 5Mbps). IPv6 is going strong at 115Mbps though.
I considered tunneling IPv4 over IPv6 but I'm only here for another 2 weeks and I have plenty of VPSs I can use to download stuff if needed (and then I can download from my home desktop over IPv6).
Wow o.o
Looks like my interwebs is getting a little better now...
I'll check this thread again in 2019 for an update.
@Traffic I'd be happy with 20Mbps if I were paying for 20Mbps but I'm paying damn near $60/month for 100Mbps, I could cut my bill in half for 20Mbps.
@KuJoe - I think Comcast knows of your IPv6 habits, and is encouraging you to switch.
$90 for internet? Here if you pay that you can get much better, and guaranteed (minimum) - usually you can get more BW than promised if you go with a good provider.
Those prices are for landline phone+internet+streaming TV (on 120+) - you have to add 20% to the price though, but still cheaper...
In 2019 it'll be all NAT but really fast.
Is that actually a thing that ipv6 is faster?
Exactly.
Not everywhere, plenty of places only have ADSL available. I only have a 3 mbps connection, for example.
People keep arguing about this and there are edge cases where IPv6 supposedly handles things better. But why not check it out for yourself?
I'd say yes.
Very true - these kind of things happen even in the big cities here. In one street you can choose what you want, and in the next one only ADSL is available.
IPv6 seems faster as it's usually handled by newer routers. Newer routers usually have more capacity and so they aren't as congested, resulting in a faster speeds. Not related to the protocol itself, just the way of deploying it.
These IPv6 flux capacitors really do make Internet faster.
IPv6 is faster for me because of the routing. Comcast does not route IPv6 within their network so a normal traceroute from my house looks like this:
My Desktop -> My Router -> Comcast -> Level3
If I do a traceroute to one of my servers in Florida from here in Colorado it takes at least 5 less hops over IPv6 than IPv4 to the same server.
I'm guessing that would be the reason in most cases. After full IPv6 implementation I doubt we'll see the same dramatic ratio - although there may be a few edge cases where there is a slight difference.