Of all the FTTC resellers, only AAISP are routing IPv6 natively and they are now providing v6-ready domestic routers.. This would seem to be a good opportunity to get onstream.

If you go with IDNet or Infinity you'll have to upgrade your hardware again in the next year or so.

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Borgon Unit

Yes

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

Of all the FTTC resellers, only AAISP are routing IPv6 natively and they are now providing v6-ready domestic routers.. This would seem to be a good opportunity to get onstream.

If you go with IDNet or Infinity you'll have to upgrade your hardware again in the next year or so.

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Borgon Unit

If I'm not mistaken, the AEBS supports ipv6 natively and it's what I'll use to do my routing.

As an O2 customer for a number of years, and being used to having no limits I struggled with ISP choice for a while. I kept hoping Sky or Be/O2 would come online. I knew talktalk were but couldn't face going to them.

As a moderately high user (up to 200Gb/month) I was concerned at the BT 300Gb fup -- I'd still prefer not to hit it, though after some checks at home monthly is now more like 120Gb even with some video streaming allowing plenty of "headroom" (we have tv, bluray able to show HD iplayer etc)

But in the end the data volumes -- which could be daytime or evening -- meant BT was the only affordable option for this volume.

The HomeHub2 was pathetic but after some dialogue with @btcare on twitter, the forum mods & some emails this was sorted. ALl the communication was fairly prompt, intelligent, helpful & the fix after a few days was to have delivery of a new HH3 arranged.

Very happy with the service so far. I get a profile of around 34M - slightly down from 38M on day one (maybe I should force a resync), and throughput seems to vary 27-34 - not seen anything lower than this, though obviously depends on exchange etc.

Latency is higher than expected - I get 22ms to bbc from southampton. It could be a fair bit lower, but looks like the 21cn network from my exchange gets routed through birmingham.. this is highly location & isp dependent I guess.
The 18m contract wasn't ideal, but having switched I'm happy to have done so.

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

Of all the FTTC resellers, only AAISP are routing IPv6 natively and they are now providing v6-ready domestic routers.. This would seem to be a good opportunity to get onstream.

If you go with IDNet or Infinity you'll have to upgrade your hardware again in the next year or so.

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Borgon Unit

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/newsite/t/3959609-i...

The "them" referred to is IDNet, as you can see from the post John is replying to.

Edited by billford (Tue 08-Feb-11 17:29:05)

In reply to a post by paulglavin:

If I'm not mistaken, the AEBS supports ipv6 natively and it's what I'll use to do my routing.

It does, but it doesn't work natively atm even when set up manually, not sure why.

It won't work natively on auto-setup because (so IDNet inform me) the BT RADIUS system doesn't support IPv6 yet so it can't log in.

Works fine using its own 6to4 tunnel.

Edited by billford (Tue 08-Feb-11 17:39:12)

> It won't work natively on auto-setup because (so IDNet inform me) the
> BT RADIUS system doesn't support IPv6 yet so it can't log in.

That seems odd: I know a couple of folk on FTTC with A&A running v6 natively with no special kit. Isn't RADIUS at the PPP level rather than IP?

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Belfast Bob

I'm just going on what I've been told, I don't know the gory details

But it might be useful to know that it's working on A&A, thanks.

Hmm... from the A&A site:

Also, we are aware that BT have some issues handling native IPv6 on some parts of their network which we are trying to resolve (Sep 2008)

That isn't incompatible with what I was told... and it's possible that's why the AEBS won't work in native IPv6 whether manual or auto.

Some useful stuff on that site


edit- just had an email from IDNet, with luck they may have got it sussed... the BT RADIUS stuff may have been a symptom not a cause.

Edited by billford (Wed 09-Feb-11 16:04:49)

Hello again Bill,

The BT network issues with IPv6 routing were solved long ago. A&A customers have been routing native v6 over BTW and BE circuits for years, at least as long as I have been with them.

Perhaps IDNet could just pick up the phone and talk to Adrian Kennard...

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Belfast Bob