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What advantage will IPv6 be to you? If I am going to spend extra money on any product, I want to know what that extra money is getting me.
My router is still going strong, so not planning to replace it at the moment, I hope it will carry on for another 5 years or more. I don't think we will have to move to IPv6 for at least another ten years as most of this IPv6 stuff will be done via the ISP.
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What advantage will IPv6 be to you?
Future-proofing. In reply to:
My router is still going strong,
Mine isn't 
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Fair enough, but is it worth paying a couple of hundred quid for a router that may not be needed for another 10 years? If IPv6 becomes the norm in the next 5 years or so, then the routers will come down in price. I know entanet is mucking around with IPv6 and if you got a modem/router capable of connecting that way, then you can do so, but I think it will be a few years yet until we are forced to do so, Just think that most routers given away by ISP's will never work with IPv6, which means that these ISP's don't have any plans to involve the consumer in IPv6 at the moment.
I could be wrong about the �200 mind you, but the last time I looked theyr was about that price.
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that may not be needed for another 10 years
Or maybe a lot less...
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But then things can be juggled around, Ipv6 can be used internally, which will leave IPv4 addresses available for consumer use.
As I said, ISPs are still giving out Ipv4 routers, they are not going to do that if they have to give new ones out in the next couple of years.
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ISPs are still giving out Ipv4 routers
You show me an ISP that gives away free routers and I'll show you an ISP that I probably wouldn't touch with a bargepole...
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Bt give out free routers and I know I don't like Bt itself, but their broadband is pretty good. BE also give a free router, they call it a wireless modem, but it is a router, so do O2.
i am sure there are other ISPs that give out free routers.
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In reply to:
What advantage will IPv6 be to you?
Future-proofing.In reply to:
My router is still going strong,
Mine isn't
Usually expensive and pointless to pre-empt the future - "the future ain't what it it used to be".
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Agree, if my router went belly up tomorrow, I would just get another normal router/modem. come to think of it I proberly would buy one from my mate, now that he is with BT and they supply te router, I doubt he will need the other two he have got so I would buy one from him.,
No way would I spend over �200 on something that I did not need./
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