Re: [nznog] Primary access method

On 19/12/2014 07:29, Sam Russell wrote:

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If we're all talking about the same ISP (SNAP, who I have good things to say about in general), there are a number of geekzone threads about IPv6 problems with their fritzbox modems that they've been issuing.

I've recently turned off IPv6 at home as I was getting frequent packet errors that meant anything IPv6 enabled (google) took an age to load and often timed out, and completely broke windows updates.

What exactly do you mean by "packet errors"? I've seen no such problems and (until they brutally switched it off) I've had equal or better performance with IPv6. It's very frustrating that the ISP won't give a proper explanation, because such problems need to be exposed, understood and fixed. Brian

On 18 December 2014 at 12:20, Joel van Velden wrote:

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If we're all talking about the same ISP (SNAP, who I have good things to say about in general), there are a number of geekzone threads about IPv6 problems with their fritzbox modems that they've been issuing.

Possibly they decided it was all too much effort and gave up.

Having more customers on IPv6 (presumably) means more customers bypassing local on-net CDN's for content too. Does Akamai support IPv6 for all content?

Until such time that all network operators consider IPv6 not-as-important as IPv4, what's the point of using it? Moving to dual-stack IPv6 (I cant, SNAP wouldn't give me a static IPv6 on static IPv4 anyway) means getting sub-optimal routing (path's and CDN end-points), as well as router quirks, etc.

Perhaps if Truenet added IPv6 metrics to their ISP testing suite, this might push some ISP's into caring more.

There is no NZ ISP that fully supports IPv6 on DSL/UFB that I am aware of.

Regards, Joel van Velden

On 2014-12-18 11:13, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

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Well, I've been waiting for an explanation of the following statement from their help desk, but since they have gone silent on me, I wonder if anyne here can make sense of the following:

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Due to ongoing issues reported by customers in relation to IPv4 to IPv6 Translation around the country and a handful of international sites we have made the decision to disable the service on our network temporarily.

I mean, in which universe can such issues be mitigated, or even affected in any way, by switching off native IPv6 support?

Regards Brian

On 14/12/2014 12:55, Lindsay Hill wrote:

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I chose this particular ISP specifically because they offered IPv6 IA_PD by default to all customers. Since they're no longer able to do this, I need to re-evaluate my choice of ISP.

But who else offers dual-stack by default in NZ? I haven't found any good source of information that outlines what the various ISPs offer. ipv6.org.nz hasn't been updated for a while.

There's a couple of providers that still seem to be running 'trials' - but those pages haven't been updated in years. That doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. Does that mean it could be switched off for an extended period, like the situation here?

I guess I need to go and ring around all the different ISPs, and put together my own table, showing current state. Unless someone else has some up to date information?

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