Am 25.09.26 um 10:04 schrieb The Natural Philosopher:
The vast majority.
Android, Apple iOS, macOS, Windows and Linux have it enabled by default and there is no reason to disable it.
Various large ISPs provide IPv6 to the customers and their routers have it enabled by default too, so they will use it if the ISP provides it.
APNIC provides statistics:
That means that your regular internet connection does not support IPv6. Check your ISP and router settings if the ISP offers it.
Oh I know what it means, they're on their second "trial" but no sign of a roll-out, think they've been trying for a decade ...
"Large ISPs".
Plusnet evidently doesn't qualify as a large ISP. It is owned by BT, and uses BT's network, but it does not support IPv6. There have been talking about 'trials' for as long as I can remember, so I expect to see commercially viable fusion power first.
Coupled with a lot of workplaces not using or actively disabling IPv6
Just to update ... after some escalation another engineer came to survey. With both my neighbours signing a wayleave to use their properties to stage a cable drop, and closer examination of the original cable run, he thought that after all that I would get the sufficient clearance direct.
Doing some crude calcuations using 7.5m for the pole height, 4.6m for my apex, and a total distance of pole to house of 20m and pole to kerb of
11m gave me a figure of 5.9m. 40cm above the limit.Wasn't a bad call out for them, as my neighbour signed up :)
Excellent.
Did the fibre company handle the wayleave? And isn't that really an "easement" as it's a permanent arrangement?
"signing a wayleave to use their properties to *stage* a cable drop"..
That sounds like temporary access to me
This not being uk.legal, I wasn't so worried about terms.
The surveyor came away with a piece of paper allowing the company to fix a bracket to the sides of the house which would take the fibre cable from the pole to cross the road. From there they would then pull it to my house.
As I said both neighbours were quite happy to help out, but now it's all agreed it may not be needed.
And one neighbour will actually need the cable to their property now, as they have switched from VM to YF.
It's a long time since I had to do calculations on a catenary curve - or do you assume a straight line for a lightweight cable?
So they came today. Fitted it pole to the bungalow apex and got 5.9m over the road ...
I'm on Virgin cable. It gets very pricy if you don't work on Virgin every time the contract comes up for renewal. Now I have fibre in my road and about 50% in the road (15 out of 31 houses) have switched I've been able to negotiate excellent deals.
Ring up Virgin, tell them how much I can get the same speed broadband from the fibre companies and ask Virgin to match the price. Every time I have asked since fibre was available they been happy to do so. Sure it's asymmetric, I have 20/120mbps, measured just now at 22/130mbps and it will only go to 50/500mbps tops. But I have zero need for faster. Cheaper yes, faster not really.
Some minutes of my life to organise this and much less faff and fuss to changing provider and changing lots of things that still use Virgin email addresses.
But it only works if Virgin cable and fibre are available in the same location otherwise you have no leverage.
Agreed - just phone them, cite comparables, and wait. I've got a 50MB connection for £26/month, which I think is about the going rate. To get that I've been through contract renewal twice - same palaver each time.
So were we. However they now can't deliver what YouFibre can. So whatever they think they can get away with is irrelevant.
Anyway not only have I now got FTTP running 9x faster than VM (and symmetrical too). YouFibre have made a generous offer to make up for the initial disappointment. Which now the cable is where it would have been anyway does suggest the original engineer was a bit over cautious.
The last straw with VM was deprecating a real TiVo for a pretend one that "records" by saving streaming links. Meaning you lose the ability to skip adverts (and who pays to watch adverts ?).
Sky customers ...
Quite, One of the best tricks ever pulled was to lull customers into paying for the adverts that the channel is also paid to carry.
I guess the experience of newspapers and magazines that did the same won out.
However I'm not sure how long that model can last. My lad has never paid a TV licence or subscription fee in his life. And he isn't really 1/10th as tech savvy as his old man ;) Or unusual in his peer group.
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