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In 2004, IPv4 addresses may have been cheaper, but IPv6 wasn't as widely used as today. Now, 88% of mobile operators offer IPv6, and 94% of fixed ISPs: https://
by iso8859-1 2y ago
In 2004, IPv4 addresses may have been cheaper, but IPv6 wasn't as widely used as today.
Now, 88% of mobile operators offer IPv6, and 94% of fixed ISPs: https://en.arcep.fr/news/press-releases/view/n/transition-to-ipv6-210423.html https://en.arcep.fr/news/press-releases/view/n/transition-to...
So the price of a single routable address has gone down by a _massive_ factor.
- ben_w 2y agoThe slowness of the IPv6 was embarrassing even 20 years ago. I'm still shaking my head in disappointment that it's only 88% of mobile and 94% of fixed. I mean, there's about twice as many active phones in the world as the full range of the IPv4 address space including the non-routable addresses…