> Customer segment? This is a thread about consumer edge routers. No, this is a thread about homelab and prosumer routers. No consumer—not Grandma, not mom, no

> Customer segment? This is a thread about consumer edge routers. No, this is a thread about homelab and prosumer routers. No consumer—not Grandma, not mom, not Aunt Alice—is adjusting or checking or modifying their settings. This is evidenced by: > 6. Turn off UPnP Really? Do you know how many things that will break for the average consumer? > So why does Grandma care if her router can do ipv6? Does Grandma care about UPnP and/or PCP? She's probably has never heard of them, but she should care about them if she wants certain apps to work. And if Grandma happens to use an ISP that didn't get in early on the IPv4 land rush (or doesn't have the cash to buy individual IPv4 addresses for all their customers) then she certainly should care if her router can do IPv6 (or rather someone should care on her behalf): > We learned a very expensive lesson. 71% of the IPv4 traffic we were supporting was from ROKU devices. 9% coming from DishNetwork & DirectTV satellite tuners, 11% from HomeSecurity cameras and systems, and remaining 9% we replaced extremely outdated Point of Sale(POS) equipment. So we cut ROKU some slack three years ago by spending a little over $300k just to support their devices. > First off I despise both Apple and that other evil empire (house of mouse) I want nothing to do with either of them. Now with that said I am one of four individuals that suggested and lobbied 15 other [American Indian] tribal nations to offer a new AppleTV device in exchange for active ROKU devices. Other nations are facing the same dilemma. Spend an exorbitant amount of money to support a small amount of antiquated devices or replace the problem devices at fraction of the cost. * https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/It-s-2022-and-still-no-IPv6/m-p/854673/highlight/true#M35732 https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/It-s... * Discussion, "Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35047624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35047624 You may just happen to be in a part of the Internet/world that got in early on the IPv4 address land rush, and/or can afford to throw money at the problem to buy individual addresses for each of their customers: not everyone is so fortunate.