[191887] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Kudos to Rogers Wireless on IPv6 deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Baschak)
Sun Oct 2 03:20:42 2016
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From: Theodore Baschak <theodore@ciscodude.net>
In-Reply-To: <20161002033750.GH3770@bamboo.slabnet.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 02:20:37 -0500
To: Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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I'm also seeing IPv6 on Rogers 4g/LTE on an Android in Winnipeg!
Looks like I'm part of 2605:8d80:400::/38
Theodore Baschak - AS395089 - Hextet Systems
https://ciscodude.net/ - https://hextet.systems/
http://mbix.ca/
> On Oct 1, 2016, at 10:37 PM, Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com> wrote:
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> So frequently on this list we hear people asking/begging their =
providers for IPv6 roadmaps or chastising them for the lack of same, =
that I thought it might be nice to actually give props to a provider =
actually moving the needle.
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> I was pleasantly surprised today to notice an IPv6 address on my =
Android smartphone on the Rogers Wireless LTE network. I had to do a =
double-take and poke through test-ipv6.com to make sure something wasn't =
amiss, but there it was: honest-to-$deity dual stack service on a =
Canadian mobile provider, with a dual-stack resolver and everything! ;)
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> So, kudos, Rogers Wireless!
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> So that's Rogers on the wireless side (with Telus Mobility at last =
check being in early stages but not yet fully rolled out), and basically =
Rogers, Telus and a bunch of smaller or regional ISPs that have deployed =
IPv6 on residential and/or business wired service. Shaw? Bell? (FYI =
Bell, your IPv6 Starter Kit linked from http://ipv6.bell.ca/ currently =
hits a 404.
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> Hugo Slabbert | email, xmpp/jabber: hugo@slabnet.com
> pgp key: B178313E | also on Signal
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