Should I switch my home to IPv6?

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2014-10-20 10:23 GMT+03:00 Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz>:

> I am shopping around for a new ISP. Exaphone are offering a reasonable
> deal, with an option to connect using IPv6.
>
> Sadly, their fixed IP costs are astronomical even with IPv6, without any
> justification I can see.
>
"Because we can" and "Because it's very profitable to charge you a lot for
something that costs us almost nothing" and "Because instead of
re-evaluating IPv4 policies in IPv6, if I can charge you and you will pay
then I will do so" (those are just some examples of corporate thinking....)

>
> The question is: should I? Do standard linksys routers support IPv6? Will
> I be able to get any level of bittorrent bandwidth with my IP unreachable
> to other peers running IPv4?
>
Any router that supports decent firmware will support IPv6 (either through
the native formware or through openwrt etc)
You will still have to have an IPv4 tunnel, either provided by your at home
router (most likely/best scenario) or at your ISP unless you want to
disconnect from 90% of the known internet (yes the major sites are on IPv6
so if you limit yourself to google/facebook/amazon etc you can probably
stay in the IPv6 only zone...).

If you have the IPv4 tunnel it should be fairly transparent to you since
you will just be connected to both IPv4 and IPv6.

I was not aware that any ISP in Israel had started to offer IPv6 service...
maybe you can cajole them into a better rate by telling them you are
basically a beta-tester for their new service...

Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו

>
> What do you say?
>
> Shachar
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