Sky IP V6

Was looking around the different boards and SKY look to have come people running IPV6 as a trial.

Attempted to call the main support numbers to ask, but got nowhere.

Anyone have a number that "works" to get onto the trial?

as I understand it the trial is soon to end and it will be live sometime this year, the trial is also NDA.

The trials are usually by invitation only from customers that have taken part in prior public beta tests.

The trial was advertised on Sky's forum. It was only open to Sagem router users. I'd keep an eye on their forum - they may well announce another trial soon.

I guess it's because the Sagem routers never really had firmware that supported IPv6 whereas the SR's always did.

The company I work for has just added IPv6 to the VPN service. Shame I am not on a ISP supplier that has IPV6. Even more of a shame is that the time to connect has gone up from 20seconds to around 90 seconds (all those IPV6 timeouts before deciding to revert to IPV4). Even better was the company IT support team saying I must have a slow ISP when I asked why the difference in VPN connection time when the VPN software was updated 3-4 weeks ago. Still a lot to learn around IPv6 use, deployment & support.

looks like its launching in 4-8 weeks.

they doing a short soft launch very soon.

thanks for that. I am now waiting to see if IPV6 will come in my direction over the next few months.

its now 4 weeks, wonder if IPv6 will be live for Christmas?

It is live.... well at least on my relative SR102 connected to Sky LLU (ADSL) in Birmingham!

They where not part of the trial wither... or not voluntarily anyway!

well its all up in the air now.

Sky were PM'ing customers telling them the trial got cancelled due to lack of applicants, but they have actually started the trial using people they themselves invited to the trial, seems a bit of a farce, so the trial is still happening but they dont want the world to know about it now.

so if a SKY rep was to read this board & message, who is looking for extra customers for a sky IPV6 trial, then I know someone who may be interested. I know from said person that you can not get on the trial via sky customer services, as the trial is invisible ....