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Re:Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fib... by dilyevsky on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:37PM (#44564383)
For regular folks there isn't much benefit tbh. Mainly I think it simplifies ISP architecture and offers slightly faster (like 10%) performance but ISPs have to support IPv4 stack for foreseeable future anyway so kinda moot point. If you game a lot p2p (i don't) you should, in theory, see lower lag.

For me personally, I work on networking startup so I'd like to be able to run IPv6 stack from my home network to test things.

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Re:Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fib... by simoncion on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:54PM (#44565150)
If you don't currently have IPv6 service, have you looked into something like Hurricane Electric's IPv6 tunnel broker? [0] It's how I got my first IPv6 subnet, and worked really well for me. I stopped using it when Comcast finally got around to providing IPv6 for non-business accounts.

[0] https://tunnelbroker.net/

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Re:Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fib... by dilyevsky on Monday July 14, 2025 @09:43PM (#44567102)
It’s been like two decades since i last used this but at the time HE 6in4 tunnel required static ipv4
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Re:Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fib... by simoncion on Monday July 14, 2025 @09:55PM (#44567157)
It has also been about that long since I used the service. According to my very, very distant memory this requirement was implemented by having you punch in your IPv4 address into a form to configure their end of the tunnel. I know for an absolute fact that Comcast was not providing me with a static IPv4 address, and the HE.net tunnel worked just fine.
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Re:Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fib... by frollogaston on Monday July 14, 2025 @05:36PM (#44565638)
Most video games don't work with ipv6 at all, which is ironic since in theory they're the exact use case for it
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