what proportion of ISPs support PPPoE out of interest ?

Thanks for the info. That would be a shame, as nobody else seems to be making much progress. I'm guessing we might start to see lots of products in the 2nd half of this year.

Cuthbei

I'm guessing we might start to see lots of products in the 2nd half of this year.

I'm hoping we won't have to wait that long.

I know my ISP (Andrews & Arnold) is looking at a number of routers with experimental IPv6 support at the moment and the MD has also mentioned being contacted by a manufacturer who has a very promising sounding product which could be available as soon as the end of this month (assuming it is suitable of course)

http://revk.www.me.uk/2011/02/entry-level-broadband-...

Billion were supposed to have release the beta IPv6 7800N firmware by not but I've not seen it yet)

Apparently it's out(?) but only for PPPoE at the moment.

In reply to a post by yarwell:

what proportion of ISPs support PPPoE out of interest ?

I don't know about LLU providers but (almost ?) all BT lines support PPPoE connection and the ISPs shouldn't care what system the line is running on.

Edited by deleted (Thu 03-Feb-11 09:15:59)

there have been cases of ISPs not supporting PPPoE, for whatever reason, but that may have gone away.

I'm not sure if the ethernet framing is stripped off by BT before presentation to the ISP.

A&A are now taking pre-orders for an IPv6 Capable Contrend router on their website.
http://aaisp.net.uk/broadband-accessories.html

(The actual model is the Comtrend AR-5382u
http://www.comtrend.com/es/links/79$product.htm)

The description from the A&A website is
"A small ADSL2+ annex M router based on Broadcom chipset, supports IPv6 and IPv4. Includes firewall, 4 port switch, WiFi and even a USB host port for 3G dongle. As pre order we cannot guarantee all features work exactly as specified, may need s/w upgrades.Pre order, supplied as received from manufacturer, expected late Feb 2011"

As they warn it may not have all it's features working out of the box, but once everything is sorted the £50 they are asking for it would seem to be damn good value (are there any other routers for that price which for example support a 3G dongle ?)

We may have to wait a long time.

All reference to IPv6 seems to have been expunged from Billion's Taiwan website.

Even the 7800NL, which until a few weeks ago was flagged "New!", and appeared to be a credible dual-stack offering, seems now to have been downgraded to unremarkable IPv4 wireless ADSL router.

A cynic might think Billion is more interested in bagging an IPv6 Ready logo than delivering useful product to end users.

RWF

Beta software, supporting IPv6, is currently available for the 7800N.

Check out the following thread on the "DSL Hardware Discussion" forum.

Billion-7800-is-the-new-thomson-st586v6 legendary

As far as I am aware, several Thinkbroadband members are trying it out.

- Alex