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Originally Posted by Jumping
That is a lot of IP addresses but not all ISP's are that lucky and its a bit of a waste to have that many as a lot of other ISP's are running short of IP addresses. Yes there aren't 80 million people in the UK but a lot of people use more than one IP and fair enough a lot of people won't use any...but I really think more should be done to start using IPv6 and this isn't just Virgin that is dragging their feet.
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I don't think anyone's going to argue with that, but the urge to jump to IPv6 simply won't be due to running out of IP addresses (For VM, at least). It'll come from people wanting to access and communicate with people and services that are only on IPv6.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
ISPs in some countries run NAT as standard and charge extra for an external IP. That said on the link given only says "Valid IP addresses" begin with the above.
VM certainly do not own every IP address beginning with that number. 62.80.81.123 (actually all of 62.80.80.0 - 62.80.95.255) for example, is owned by BT Prague and 80.40.0.0 - 80.47.255.255 is owned by Tiscali. 213.45.0.0 to 213.45.255.255 is owned by Telecom Italia. 81.45.6.0 - 81.45.13.255 is Telefonica Spain. 82.224.8.0 - 82.224.9.255 is Proxad France.
In fact, just picking at random out of the above ranges, I'm yet to come across a single one that *is* owned by VM. Statistically that would suggest VM own less than 20% of them.
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This is also true, I wasn't sure how to look that kind of information up. Suffice it to say though, Virgin isn't running out any time soon.