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My ISP (Verizon FiOS in NYC) does not offer IPv6 support at all. Users have asked for years. They've promised it for years. It's still not there. So it's not a
by geofft 8y ago
My ISP (Verizon FiOS in NYC) does not offer IPv6 support at all. Users have asked for years. They've promised it for years. It's still not there. So it's not a matter of users asking. Re switching, I think I have one or maybe two alternatives; I'm not sure if they support IPv6 either, and they have their downsides too.
Any potential killer app is going to have to decide whether they want to lose such users, because I cannot imagine an app that is so compelling that I'd switch ISPs for it. And I'm a person who actually wants IPv6 for its own sake. I certainly cannot imagine, say, my parents switching ISPs over an app (and I'm not sure how much choice they have either).
And if such an app arises, it's going to be easy enough for users to use VPNs - it's already common for people to use VPNs to get to region-locked content or (at least as of a few years ago) play LAN videogames over the internet.
- tambre 8y agoVerizon started customer IPv6 rollout in select areas this autumn.[0] [0]: https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32136440-Networking-IPv6-working https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32136440-Networking-IPv6-w...
- magila 8y agoSome users have asked their ISP for IPv6, but they are in the extreme minority. The average user is obviously never going to ask for IPv6 because they don't know what it is. Really the hope is that users would complain killer app x doesn't work with their ISP, and eventually there would be enough pressure to motivate the ISP to deploy IPv6.
- geofft 8y agoHow would the app become a killer app in the first place if a huge fraction of users can't use it? And my estimate is it probably takes years to roll out IPv6 on a network that isn't ready for it - how would the app remain a killer app until then and not be disrupted by someone willing to run a proxy server?
- guan 8y agoTime Warner Cable (now Spectrum) supports IPv6 and is available in much of New York City.