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Kushan · 12-10-2013, 00:12

I got bored tonight so I set up an IPv6 tunnel broker on my router. The long and short of it is that I now have IPv6 addressing for all of my devices, over my single-IPv4-only Virgin connection. Pretty neat, albeit a bit useless.

http://i.imgur.com/oDVOy89.png

It was remarkably easy to set up, though that's mostly thanks to the Asus router I have. I heard a rumour that the next-gen games consoles will all support IPv6 so it's nice to know that I'll be ready, even if Virgin isn't.

It's not all fun and games though, there's a definitely speed hit with the tunnel broker:

http://i.imgur.com/O860xqZ.png

Though from what I can tell, pings times are largely the same (+/- about 3ms).

It's also nice to know that I have an allocation of (I believe) 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (18.466 quintillion) IP addresses, which should keep me going for a while.

12-10-2013, 00:12	#1
Kushan cf.mega poster Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Warrington Posts: 4,737	Anyone else using an IPv6 Broker? I got bored tonight so I set up an IPv6 tunnel broker on my router. The long and short of it is that I now have IPv6 addressing for all of my devices, over my single-IPv4-only Virgin connection. Pretty neat, albeit a bit useless. http://i.imgur.com/oDVOy89.png It was remarkably easy to set up, though that's mostly thanks to the Asus router I have. I heard a rumour that the next-gen games consoles will all support IPv6 so it's nice to know that I'll be ready, even if Virgin isn't. It's not all fun and games though, there's a definitely speed hit with the tunnel broker: http://i.imgur.com/O860xqZ.png Though from what I can tell, pings times are largely the same (+/- about 3ms). It's also nice to know that I have an allocation of (I believe) 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (18.466 quintillion) IP addresses, which should keep me going for a while.