Frontier rural FIOS & IPv6

Sun Mar 31 23:19:39 UTC 2019

Going to play devils advocate. 

If frontier has a ton of ipv4 addresses, what benefit is there to them in rolling out ipv6?

What benefit is there to you?

> On Mar 31, 2019, at 7:11 PM, C. A. Fillekes <cfillekes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Still it's pretty darn good having real broadband on the farm.  One thing at a time.  
> 
> But, let's start thinking about ways to get Frontier up to speed on the IPv6 thing. 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 4:24 PM Aaron C. de Bruyn <aaron at heyaaron.com> wrote:
>> You're not alone.
>> 
>> I talked with my local provider about 4 years ago and they said "We will probably start looking into IPv6 next year".
>> I talked with them last month and they said "Yeah, everyone seems to be offering it.  I guess I'll have to start reading how to implement it".
>> 
>> I'm sure 2045 will finally be the year of IPv6 everywhere.
>> 
>> -A
>> 
>>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 7:36 AM C. A. Fillekes <cfillekes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> So by COB yesterday we now officially have FIOS at our farm.  
>>> 
>>> Went from 3Mbps to around 30 measured average.  Yay.  
>>> 
>>> It's a business account, Frontier.  But...still no IPv6. 
>>> 
>>> The new router's capable of it.  What's the hold up?  
>>> 
>>> Customer service's response is "We don't offer that".
>>> 
>>> 
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