Re:Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages
by supertrope on Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:48PM
(#28711755)
Video chat. File transfers without a third party host. Cell phones almost always only offer a public address over v6. Internet gaming. VPNs without address conflicts. Not being banned from Wikipedia because someone else with the same CGNAT ISP got banned.
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Re:Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages
by jonathantf2 on Friday October 01, 2021 @04:56AM
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For the average consumer they don't notice a difference. Both my home and mobile ISPs have said they have no plans to offer IPv6 connectivity because it's not a requirement.
Users don't care, and until a lot of them do ISPs won't do anything.
People can still video chat, play games and use VPNs without v6.
Re:Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages
by supertrope on Friday October 01, 2021 @01:13PM
(#28721070)
It usually manifests as gamers asking about "strict NAT":
https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/connect... https://kb.netgear.com/19844/Why-does-my-Xbox-say-NAT-is-set...
Part of why video chat quality sucks is because the RTP traffic has to be sent through a proxy to deal with NAT, doubling load on the Internet and increasing latency.