Best US Tunnelbroker for Youtube

Wed Aug 27 01:28:56 UTC 2014

In message <CAN2EnhCBRR6qS4PWPG9UkQF3SqkPjJw9cXEqu+1uVhM26PcJEQ at mail.gmail.com>
, ITechGeek writes:
> Someone was telling me this weekend their entire network is native dual
> stack now.  I haven't had a chance to confirm it yet, but he said they are
> issuing /60's to residential users using DHCPv6.

The residential network in fully IPv6 capable.
The commercial network is still a work in progress.

This is based on the last notice I saw from Comcast.

Mark

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> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> 
> > My understanding is that almost all of the Comcast network is now IPv6
> > capable.
> >
> > Owen
> >
> > On Aug 20, 2014, at 10:26 AM, Ryan Shea <ryanshea at google.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Not sure I've seen any evidence (or implied) that the tunnel was the
> > > problem. My issue as far as I know is at the application layer and other
> > > end-user experiences seemed a reasonable way to pick a direction. I will
> > > work with HE though and provide them some details.
> > >
> > > Agreed, from an end-user perspective it can be often be clear as mud
> > > whether I am using v6, or whether my Chromecast or Android device even
> > > implements happy eyeballs. The relatively new "experiencing problems?"
> > > butter bar that shows up beneath a video with notable buffering problems
> > > (even at low quality levels) sends the user through to details about the
> > > service provider, in this case HE. Over the past couple years YouTube has
> > > been my canary to know when I've received a new IP from Verizon and I
> > need
> > > to go fix my tunnel -- video loading takes fuuuuuuuurever on
> > > Android/Chromecast/GoogleTV (which hints that happy eyeballs, if it
> > exists
> > > for Android, isn't working so well for the YouTube app).
> > >
> > > I can't get native v6 at my home -- I'm probably not in a particularly
> > > unique situation. Not to rathole the dicsussion, but as far as I know
> > (save
> > > for some small DSL providers) unless I'm in a gFiber city or happen to be
> > > in the portion of the Comcast network that provides native v6 I'm out of
> > > luck. I don't plan on moving to solve this problem.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Jeroen Massar <jeroen at massar.ch>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 2014-08-20 18:21, Ryan Shea wrote:
> > >>> IRC is a good suggestion, thanks. They'll likely be helpful.
> > >>>
> > >>> I see no indication of any throttling from my ISP - I can blast data at
> > >>> full speed to my home from my server and work (with native v6
> > >>> connections).
> > >>
> > >> Does that path between your $home and $server go over the tunnel you
> > >> find so "slow"?
> > >>
> > >> If so, then you have just nicely excluded that the tunnel is NOT the
> > >> problem.
> > >>
> > >> Hence, why traceroutes would be so extremely useful.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> Contacting my ISP (Verizon FiOS) is virtually never a
> > >>> reasonable path to a solution.
> > >>
> > >> google(Verizon FiOS throttle) = 71.900 results. One would almost think
> > >> that there might sometimes be issues there.
> > >>
> > >> Also, do realize that the IPv6 path you are using goes over a shared
> > >> host (the Tunnel Broker PoP) that has IPv4 and IPv6 capacity that might
> > >> be shared in various points of the paths your packets cross.
> > >>
> > >> Did you test at the same time of your "blast data" that the IPv6 Youtube
> > >> was working fine?
> > >>
> > >> Another thing, as browsers now do "Happy Eyeballs" (which is really
> > >> horrible to diagnose issues with on OSX), did you check if everything is
> > >> really going over IPv6? (hence the tcpdump/wireshark).
> > >>
> > >> [..]
> > >>> To be clear, I was seeking opinions/experiences on a list that was
> > >>> likely to have a high occurrence of folk with v6 tunnels.
> > >>
> > >> Tunnels are for endusers who still are at ISPs who don't do IPv6
> > natively.
> > >>
> > >> NANOG has operators who have been running native IPv6 for over a decade.
> > >>
> > >> Hence, StackExchange might be useful for your purpose.
> > >>
> > >>> You have
> > >>> etiquette suggestions, but not YouTube over tunnelbroker suggestions. I
> > >>> apparently bring out your inner grump? Do you need a hug?
> > >>
> > >> My cat videos are streaming perfectly fine...
> > >>
> > >>> Burning Google engineering time would be a sub-optimal way to get HD
> > cat
> > >>> videos at home with the least time spent.
> > >>
> > >> Interesting, I was not aware they did not care about their eyeballs.
> > >>
> > >> Actually I am very confident lots of folks there would love to dig into
> > >> your issue to actually resolve it. As when it is hitting you, it might
> > >> hit other customers.
> > >>
> > >> Is that also not why there is this huge SRE department with lots of IPv6
> > >> knowledgeable folks?
> > >>
> > >> Greets,
> > >> Jeroen
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> >
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