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In the UK, BT officially enabled IPv6 but it is a "maybe" IPv6. Sometimes it is enabled, sometimes not. It is 2019....

• danpalmer 7y ago
  From my experience it’s consistently IPv6. Is it that some small areas of their network are v4 only still, but the majority is v6? At my employer we typically find IPv6 is 25-30% of our traffic. It’s better than I thought it would be but still not great. Much of that percentage is BT and Sky.
• rwmj 7y ago
  My advice would be get a better ISP. I have rock solid IPv6 here in the UK with a /48 and a RIPE record.
  • cm2187 7y ago
    Unfortunately where I live there is only one fibre to the premise provider and that's not going to change. I don't care about IPv6 enough to swap fibre to the premise for DSL.
    • isostatic 7y ago
      Doesn't your FTTP provider give IPv6 then? I have a BT Openreach fibre, and A&A give IPV6, and several v4s
      • cm2187 7y ago
        I use BT openreach too. They do but as I said patchy connectivity. I see that when I run nslookup in windows which isn't smart enough to fall back to IPv4 DNS when v6 is not reachable. It seems to be on and off.
        • isostatic 7y ago
          You're on A&A and getting patchy connectivity?
          • cm2187 7y ago
            I am on BT openreach. What is A&A? I get patchy v6 connectivity. v4 is stable.
            • rwmj 7y ago
              https://www.aa.net.uk/ https://www.aa.net.uk/ I'm using it and get rock solid IPv6. Also they have actual people who know what they are doing manning the phones.
  • rys 7y ago
    Sometimes a better ISP isn't always an option. I live on the south coast in a Virginmedia area, and have requirements that make it the only sensible option since it's so far ahead of other ISPs on downstream bandwidth. I do run an IPv6 tunnel out of my network to get access to the IPv6 internet and add my tiny bit of traffic to things and try and increase adoption, but I'd much prefer it if VMB just gave me IPv6 native. Not even sure they're working on it.