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Looks like I've hit a case of IPv4 vs. IPv6. I recently noticed that fast.com starting showing me at about half my connection speed, 50Mbps. I only just now rea
by daenney 10y ago
Looks like I've hit a case of IPv4 vs. IPv6. I recently noticed that fast.com starting showing me at about half my connection speed, 50Mbps. I only just now realised while looking at the traffic that it was doing it over IPv6. Disabling IPv6 in my network gets me a reported speed of 120Mbps on fast.com, which sounds about right for a 100/100 subscription + some burst.
My ISP hasn't even officially announced any IPv6 support, I discovered more or less by accident that if I enabled 6rd things "just worked" so the fact that it might not go at the full speed of my subscription isn't something I'm super worried about.
I've actually got a similar issue with Google. While using IPv4 I don't even leave my ISP's network as they have those Google Global Cache boxes at the edge and terminate my connection there but over IPv6 I do go all the way out over the internet to Google.
- developer2 10y agoChances are you are not running native IPv6. Most customers who "have access to IPv6" are running through IPv4 -> IPv6 conversion which adds immense overhead and is not a real indication of IPv6 to come. For all such customers, their pseudo-IPv6 will always be slower than IPv4. Most ISPs do not run any form of native IPv6 yet.
- daenney 10y ago> Chances are you are not running native IPv6. Yes, that's the case since, as I stated, I got IPv6 connectivity through 6rd: > It is derived from 6to4, a preexisting mechanism to transfer IPv6 packets over the IPv4 network