Re: V6 still widely supported (was Re: CC: s to Non List Members,

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 4:16 PM Josh Luthman <josh () imaginenetworksllc com>
wrote:

> Verizon Wireless does have v6.  I see a 100.64/24 on my phone all the time.
wireless != wired/internet/fios/dsl

Verizon, as I noted elsewhere, in the wired network (as701 / 702 / 703,
mostly these days) supported v6 in ~2005 across the entire backbone(s).
This technology never seems to have trickled down to the residential
(consumer and small business) edge.


> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 4:11 PM John Covici <covici () ccs covici com> wrote:
>
> > Verizon does not support ipv6 as far as I know, I have fios and they
> > said it was not supported.
> >
> > On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 15:20:48 -0500,
> > John Levine wrote:
> > > It appears that Joe Maimon <jmaimon () jmaimon com> said:
> > > > higher penetration of native v6, I would restate that a bit more
> > > > conservatively as
> > > >
> > > > Google's statistics are likely a fair barometer for USA usage in the
> > > > large content provider arena which have a strong mobile representation.
> > >
> > > AT&T, Comcast, and Charter/Spectrum, the three largest cable companies,
> > have IPv6
> > > support.  I expect a lot of Google searches and Gmail messages come
> > from them, too.
> > > I think it's more accurate to say that large networks have looked at the
> > > costs and implemented IPv6.  Small networks, many of which have no need
> > > to expand beyond their existing IPv4 allocations, largely have not.
> > >
> > > Of course, there are a lot more small networks than large ones, even
> > though
> > > they don't necessarily represent many users, so guess who we hear from?
> > >
> > > R"s,
> > > John
> >
> > --
> > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > How do
> > you spend it?
> >
> >          John Covici wb2una
> >          covici () ccs covici com