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I grow up in China seeing news about the policy of IPv6 adoption every year, but the real adoption rate is still abysmal here.
by bdd8f1df777b 3y ago
I grow up in China seeing news about the policy of IPv6 adoption every year, but the real adoption rate is still abysmal here.
- nerdbert 3y agoIs everything NATted? With such a high population it seems hard to manage with limited IPv4 addresses.
- geraldhh 3y agoyep
- j16sdiz 3y agoI thought they were very accessible in the education (i.e. university) network.
- ggm 3y agoIt is visible in the APNIC Labs measurement at 30% and within different AS of China Mobile at 65% or better, it depends province by provice, and provider by provider. https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/CN https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/CN I don't call this abysmal at all. It very possibly is higher, there are reasons why APNIC may undercount, but noting that APNIC and Akamai tend to agree on their numbers. Google's own numbers for China are far lower for reasons which do not affect the APNIC or Akamai data.
- thrdbndndn 3y agoMajority of them are mobile phones IIRC. Not nothing, but the adoption rate of IPV6 on computer side is still very low.
- ggm 3y agoVirtually all of India is phones and tablets. It's the highest ipv6 economy. If your criterion is "not handheld devices" then I ask, what makes desktop computers so special? I believe 80% or more of the planets internet is handhelds. You think the US home users on comcast are all PC's?
- thrdbndndn 3y ago> what makes desktop computers so special More on the technical side. Most of mobile devices and their modems need (or even allow) zero to no manual configuration, so adopting ipv6 with these hardwares are easy -- the ISP just need to deal with their side. This is in contrast to "fixed-line" internet devices like computers and their routers.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago> what makes desktop computers so special? Non-casual computing and multiple screens. ex: Work, research, editing, complex creation, engineering... Mobile can sometimes touch those things but the core is mostly done on desktops.
- justworkout 3y agoA lot of people, including young people, throughout Asia don't have computers. A large number of working adults our age (however old you may be) don't touch desktop or laptop computers at all on their day to day. A huge number of people only have phones in their home and only use phones for their work. Plenty of companies also use tablets with specialized apps in places where a western company would use a PC. Finding 20-30 somethings in Asia who are educated and employed who don't know how to use a mouse isn't uncommon. I've encountered it loads of times with new employees in various offices.
- bdd8f1df777b 3y agoFrom my own experience, 1. Most Chinese websites or apps don't work properly or at all in a pure IPv6 setting. They claim to be IPv6 compatible, but have a lot of problems (e.g. images not loading). 2. Most Wi-Fi networks (be it home WiFi, restaurant WiFi, hotel WiFi, school WiFi, etc.) have no IPv6 addresses. Half of the IPv6 enabled WiFi networks I've ever seen are set up by myself.
- imp0cat 3y agoSeems to me that it's the same everywhere. It's not that there are no new IPv6 deployments, it's just that the rate of change is slow.
- torginus 3y agothat's surprising to me considering the vast majority of Chinese netizens have come online way after IPv6 was determined to be the future. Also, in a country of more than a billion people, most of whom use the internet with at least 1 device, IPv4 quickly leads to address shortages.