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All the big cable and fiber internet providers I've worked with in the US support IPv6, even evil nasty ones like Comcast have supported it for a decade now.

• rekoil 4y ago
  Is it enabled by default on customer equipment?
  • FateOfNations 4y ago
    On their leased hardware, it is enabled from what I've seen. And if you are running your own modem and router, you will get IPv6 if you configure your setup to request it (via DHCP). They will even give you a /60 if your DHCP client asks for it.
    • rekoil 4y ago
      Weak, here in Sweden I get a /56 from my ISP. You'll run out of IP addresses long before I do!
    • keiyakins 4y ago
      Even? /60 should be the minimum, even home users usually have a couple subnets (guest networks for example, sometimes one for the router's WAN link) and you want the boundary to be on a nybble boundary
      • rekoil 4y ago
        A /60 network consists of 295,147,905,179,352,825,856 addresses. I think most users will probably be fine with that.
        • Dagger2 4y ago
          This is v6; nobody counts individual IPs, because the answer is always "enough". A /60 is only 16 /64s (i.e. 16 subnets), and that's not always enough.
          • rekoil 4y ago
            Wait, can you not subnet IPv6 smaller than /64?
            • keiyakins 4y ago
              Not if you want SLAAC to work, no.
          • keiyakins 4y ago
            Yeah, it's not always, but for most home networks it probably is. Ideally they'd give you a /56 or even a /48, but giving those on request and a /60 by default is fine.
  • karlshea 4y ago
    When I had Comcast about 5 years ago it was enabled by default.