In reply to a post by Taras:

given that "modem" is short for "Moduation/demoduation" the ONT is doing exactly that. So calling it an optical modem or ont would be fine.

Really. 30yrs of IT and i'd always though it was modulator-demodulator

In terms of the topic. I do find fttp more stable. I rarely dip below the max speed.

Edited by deleted (Sat 11-May-19 13:07:09)

4.2. Prefix assignment options

To keep addressing plans usable and understandable, and to align with DNS reverse zone delegations, the size of the delegated prefix should align with a nibble boundary. Each hexadecimal character in an IPv6 prefix represents one nibble, which is 4 bits. The length of a delegated prefix should therefore always be a multiple of 4.

A single network at a customer site will be a /64. At present, RIR policies permit assignment of a /48 per site, so the possible options when choosing a prefix size to delegate are /48, /52, /56, /60 and /64. However, /64 is not sustainable, it doesn't allow customer subnetting, and it doesn't follow IETF recommendations of �at least� multiple /64s per customer. Moreover, future work within the IETF and recommendations from RFC 7934 (section 6) allow the assignment of a /64 to a single interface (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host-07).

from https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690#4-2-...

Anyone have a link to a good dummy's guide to IPv6? I have a good understanding of IPv4 but sadly not a clue of IPv6.

When I look at my single ethernet NIC on my PC I have the following in addition to IPv4 :-

2 x IPv6 addresses
2 x temporary IPv6 addresses
1 x link-local IPv6 address
1 x default gateway IPv6 address