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Comcast Carrying 1Tbit/s of IPv6 Internet Traffic
New submitter Tim the Gecko (745081) writes Comcast has announced 1Tb/s of Internet facing, native IPv6 traffic, with more than 30% deployment to customers. With Facebook, Google/YouTube, and Wikipedia up to speed, it looks we are past the "chicken and egg" stage.
IPv6 adoption by other carriers is looking better too with AT&T at 20% of their network IPv6 enabled, Time Warner at 10%, and Verizon Wireless at 50%. The World IPv6 Launch site has measurements of global IPv6 adoption.
In actual fact, the ComCast internet service is not too bad. It is just their customer support, pricing, monopoly status and general arrogance that make them among the most hated company in existence.
The other interesting thing in the article was Google showing their IPv6 traffic was now around 4% up looked the perhaps the upward bend at the beginning of an s-Curve.
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I've heard that you can only get ipv6 connections if your comments are in uni-code.
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The big advantage is that all my computers are reachable through the internet, no more NATting port 80 and port 22 to strange ports because you can use every port only once.
A secondary advantage is that port 25 is not filtered, although that's not inherent to IPv6, just a lucky benefit of my current tunnel-provider.
Cisco has nice graphics of the IPv6-deployement in the world. It's based on the same measurements but presented with nice graphs instead of a boring table of numbers. Look up your own country at http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/in... .
The big advantage is that all my computers are reachable through the internet
Depending on your point of view, that may also be considered as a down-side.
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This is Slashdot, News for Nerds. Not News for Grandma's that are afraid of configuring their router.
It works for a little while, but it still depends on the network having a public IP. A lot of ISPs, especially in Asian countries, have started implementing NAT level IP which means no UPnP and not even manual port forwarding.
In actual fact, the ComCast internet service is not too bad.
Their cable TV service is another story. I'm reading this article right now because my cable box is busy rebooting...again.