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I moved to Tennessee recently, and we have municipal broadband from EPB. On the one hand, it's offered at a fair price ($68/month for a symmetric gigabit connec

I moved to Tennessee recently, and we have municipal broadband from EPB. On the one hand, it's offered at a fair price ($68/month for a symmetric gigabit connection). On the other hand, they have been promising IPv6 support for years but have completely failed to deliver. Unfortunately the sales people are every bit as non-technical at EPB as they are anywhere else, and they don't seem to understand the issue at all. Does anyone else have the same experience, or is just EPB in particular that's bad on offering IPv6? Obviously, I still prefer EPB's service over that of Comcast, AT&T or Cox. I'm not complaining about municipal broadband in general. (I would like to see a NAT-free internet in my lifetime, that's all.)

p1mrx 5y ago
It would be nice if municipal fiber just provided a dumb "layer 2" pipe to some nearby PoP where you could shop around for an ISP who knows how the internet works. Basically the dialup model, but 10000X faster. Then municipalities wouldn't have to worry about stuff like IP addressing and DMCA notices. The main disadvantage is that packets to your neighbors need to hairpin through the PoP instead of staying local, but that's probably not a big deal for residential traffic.
- iptrans 5y ago
  Light travels more than a 100 miles per millisecond, so as long as the POP is within a few hundred miles you are good. Tromboning local traffic isn’t much of an issue anyway since very little of your traffic is hyper local. Most of your traffic will be going to CDNs and other ISPs.