IPv6 adoption rate above 3% even on Mondays now (opens in new tab)

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52 pointsbaltimore12y ago23 comments

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pgtruesdell12y ago· 5 in thread

I think it's important to note that in the US it's up to 7.34%. Quite impressive considering the lack of urgency by ISPs.

kzrdude12y ago

Absolutely. The US also the home of what percentage of the IPv4 space? Must be a big part of that cake. With that very coarse view you'd expect them to be the last ones to need IPv6.

sp33212y ago

Comcast recently started rolling out IPv6 to standard residential accounts. I'm guessing a lot of people are now using IPv6 and didn't even notice.

massysett12y ago

Verizon Wireless is over 50% v6. My phone is v6. If I hadn't tried a "what's my IP" on my phone I wouldn't have noticed (which is how it should be).

bshimmin12y ago

And a staggeringly awful 0.24% in the UK.

Alphasite_12y ago

Theres no real pressure here at the moment, so they won't do it in any hurry. Its not like theres a massive growth in houses being built.

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mcmatterson12y ago· 4 in thread

There's a pretty massive bump in IPv6 usage on weekends. I'm assuming this is likely due to residential / mobile IPv6 adoption being higher than commercial adoption?

X-Istence12y ago

Even if it is available a lot of companies just don't have the experience with IPv6 and are hesitant to turn it on.

Which BTW sucks when you are trying to test your product on IPv6.

DrStalker12y ago

You need to be able to show a business benefit before making changes like that; right now changing to ipv6 would give no benefit, require replacement of existing hardware and create additional troubleshooting load.

Until that changes there won't be widespread adoption of ipv6 by businesses.

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pling12y ago

This is our problem. People just don't understand it in the operations team. Our devops guys know it inside out but they have to use the services the operations team hand out which means v4 and shitty hardware.

Yes corporate structure sucks.

The silly thing is that there are several NATs and brick walls in the company which wouldn't need to exist with v6.

I myself am v6 end to end at home. Linode at the head end and Andrews and Arnold at the bottom end.

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danyork12y ago

Yes, that's pretty much been my assumption. Perhaps you might also be watching longer videos on YouTube from home or using more Google services from home - but I think it does have more to do with residential adoption.

mischanix12y ago

My pattern is the opposite. At home, Comcast routes v6 traffic so poorly (a 50ms latency increase in most routes) that I have no choice but to disable it. However, at work, I enjoy low-latency v6 connectivity.

zokier12y ago

Considering that APNIC was iirc the first to run out of IPv4 and certainly a growing market, it seems odd that most countries there (edit: in Asia) have basically no IPv6 adoption.

okso12y ago

According to this tool, Belgium would have the highest IPv6 adoption in the world. Happy to live there !

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