Re:AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses
by mypalmike on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:42PM
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Are you implying that using IPv6 lowers latency and increases throughput?
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Re:AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses
by ArchOversight on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:51PM
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Yes. https://www.retevia.net/fast/
The throughput issue may be because the IPv6 network is less utilized and or uses more efficient routing, but the latency is less.
Here's Facebook's information on how IPv6 is faster: https://engineering.fb.com/networking-traffic/ipv6-it-s-time...
> We’ve observed that accessing Facebook can be 10-15 percent faster over IPv6.
Re:AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses
by samoa42 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @09:12AM
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the wording "can be faster" tells that this is the upper bound. ie. it is generally about the same, while it can be 15% faster or slower than the ip4 average. sample sizes are most likely somewhat different aswell .