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No IPv6 For UK Broadband Users

Posted by timothy on from the not-now-love-not-now dept.

BT (the incumbent telephone company in the United Kingdom) are in the process of spending millions of pounds on upgrading their network to an all-IP core. However, they have failed to consider 21st Century protocol support, preferring to insist that IPv4 is enough for everyone. Haven't they noticed the IPv4 exhaustion report yet?

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  1. huh? by peachstealingmonkeys · · Score: 0, Troll

    Another FUD article. BT's backbone supports IPv6. End-user (CPE's) devices might currently have a problem with IPv6 packets but it's a matter of a firmware fix. But saying "BT insists that IPv4 is enough for everyone" is just lame...

  2. Re:Internet in the UK will fall over... by sjwest · · Score: 0, Troll

    I agree with you, ipv4 is known and you can balance traffic and sell data to phorm and the government for spying.

    Ipv6 is an adventure with dragons and tom cruise sized midgets and so it means you need to spend money.

    There are other concerns - while our routers don't do ipv6, i could buy new routers and flash them for ipv6 but i doubt that that is not near your average uk users capabilities.