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I wonder when a country is going to overtake Belgium in IPv6 adoption. Belgium has been slightly above 50% IPv6 traffic to Google for quite a while now, thanks

I wonder when a country is going to overtake Belgium in IPv6 adoption. Belgium has been slightly above 50% IPv6 traffic to Google for quite a while now, thanks to major ISPs switching to native dual-stack setups (and those ISPs being in full control of home networks in general). It seems that we in Belgium are somewhat stuck at this rate though. Consumer routers behind ISP modems that only provide IPv4, enterprises not adopting IPv6, mobile networks not adopting IPv6 (all IPv4 only with CGNAT if I'm not mistaken), ...

jgrahamc 8y ago
Based on Cloudflare traffic data we see this over the last 7 days: US 39.56% IN 39.03% BE 36.97% IE 36.23% MY 30.55% DE 28.24%
- Ambroos 8y ago
  Huh, interesting! I wonder where the discrepancy comes from.
  - chimeracoder 8y ago
    > Huh, interesting! I wonder where the discrepancy comes from. Probably because the Cloudflare data is percentage of traffic (e.g. total requests), and the Google data is percentage of users. Mobile traffic is more likely to be IPv6, and that would skew the numbers.
    - ecnahc515 8y ago
      Yeah, cloudflare sees a lot of backend systems too (servers); whereas Google probably gets more from (and is reporting on) devices attached to humans.
thaumasiotes 8y ago
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ipv6-in-china/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/ipv6-in-china/ There are some large countries out there. Note that according to my sibling comment, Belgium isn't #1, or above 50%, right now.
- jgrahamc 8y ago
  It's an apples vs. oranges comparison. I (Cloudflare) am talking about traffic %; Google is talking about % of users. Cloudflare doesn't have a concept of 'user'.
  - thaumasiotes 8y ago
    > Belgium has been slightly above 50% IPv6 traffic to Google for quite a while now That sounds like percentage of traffic to me?
    - jgrahamc 8y ago
      That's what the parent comment says but the linked page on Google is talking about users: "The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6".

jgrahamc 8y ago

Based on Cloudflare traffic data we see this over the last 7 days: US 39.56% IN 39.03% BE 36.97% IE 36.23% MY 30.55% DE 28.24%

Ambroos 8y ago
Huh, interesting! I wonder where the discrepancy comes from.
- chimeracoder 8y ago
  > Huh, interesting! I wonder where the discrepancy comes from. Probably because the Cloudflare data is percentage of traffic (e.g. total requests), and the Google data is percentage of users. Mobile traffic is more likely to be IPv6, and that would skew the numbers.
  - ecnahc515 8y ago
    Yeah, cloudflare sees a lot of backend systems too (servers); whereas Google probably gets more from (and is reporting on) devices attached to humans.

thaumasiotes 8y ago

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ipv6-in-china/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/ipv6-in-china/ There are some large countries out there. Note that according to my sibling comment, Belgium isn't #1, or above 50%, right now.

jgrahamc 8y ago
It's an apples vs. oranges comparison. I (Cloudflare) am talking about traffic %; Google is talking about % of users. Cloudflare doesn't have a concept of 'user'.
- thaumasiotes 8y ago
  > Belgium has been slightly above 50% IPv6 traffic to Google for quite a while now That sounds like percentage of traffic to me?
  - jgrahamc 8y ago
    That's what the parent comment says but the linked page on Google is talking about users: "The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6".