When, as a broadband user in the UK, am I likely to want to have IPV6?i

Would this be when there are Internet sites mainly in the UK which I am likely to want to contact and which I could not contact using IPV4? If so, when is this expected to happen?

My collection of home IP devices keeps growing but as they are all behind my NAT router they don't consume more public addresses.

It will be when providers are using CGNAT for IPv4 and things like console gaming is not happy with CGNAT, and other activities like VoIP. Likely static IPv4 will remain available but at extra cost, or shift devices to IPv6.

The firewall argument is interesting, as surely people on a LAN are running firewalls on the individual devices too, i.e. to protect themselves from others on their LAN.

Only reliable air gap to hacking is to not be connected to the Internet and only hand type in software updates where someone has reviewed every line of code to ensure nothing untoward will be done to a machine.

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

I do recall when on Zen we was tunnelling IPv6 over IPv4.

Zen have offered native IPv6 for a while, though I believe you still have to e-mail [email protected] quoting your Zen user name to request it is enabled on your account.

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In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

I do recall when on Zen we was tunnelling IPv6 over IPv4.

Zen have offered native IPv6 for a while, though I believe you still have to e-mail [email protected] quoting your Zen user name to request it is enabled on your account.

Is it free or do you have to pay extra?

Paul

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In reply to a post by David_W:

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

I do recall when on Zen we was tunnelling IPv6 over IPv4.

Zen have offered native IPv6 for a while, though I believe you still have to e-mail [email protected] quoting your Zen user name to request it is enabled on your account.

Is it free or do you have to pay extra?

No additional charge. Unless Zen have changed things since I signed up, you get a static /48 for your networks and a static /64 for your router's WAN interface.

In reply to a post by David_W:

No additional charge. Unless Zen have changed things since I signed up, you get a static /48 for your networks and a static /64 for your router's WAN interface.

Ah, ok.
Well my brother has Zen for his FTTC, I know he use to use tunnelling to get IPv6, he might already be aware of them doing native IPv6.

But I might asking just in case.

Paul

All working good here on backup line. (apart from upload being slow on yuor test but no one elses)

Download is fine

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...