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

Sun Mar 13 19:07:26 UTC 2022

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 4:16 PM Josh Luthman <josh at 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 at 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 at 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 at ccs.covici.com
>>
>
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