Digital Ocean didn’t even have an ipv6 address on by default in the droplet I created last week. It’s just a switch to flip, but I’ll bet the support costs of hobbyists/enthusiasts not realizing they needed to also write firewall rules, make sure ports weren’t open for databases and things like that for ipv6.

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PaulHoule 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's a "just doesn't work" experience every time that I try it and I don't experience any value from it, it's not like there isn't anything I can connect to on IPv6 that I can't connect to on IPv4.

My ISP has finally mastered providing me with reliable albeit slow DSL. Fiber would change my life, there just isn't any point in asking for IPv6.

Also note those bloated packets are death for many modern applications like VoIP.

	▲	Spooky23 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Exactly. Spectrum delivers good IPv6 service in my area. I tried it when I upgraded my gateway. All of my devices are assigned 4 IPv6 IPs, hostnames are replaced by auto assigned stuff from the ISP, and lots of random things don’t work. I went from being pumped to learn more to realizing I’m going to invest a lot of time and I could not identify and tangible benefit.
	▲	dpark 42 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> those bloated packets are death for many modern applications like VoIP. Huh? The packet sizes aren’t that much different and VOIP is hardly a taxing application at this point anyway. VOIP needs barely over dial-up level bandwidth.

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akerl_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My memory of IPv6 is getting waves of support tickets from people who took their (already questionable) practice of blocking ICMP on IPv4, blocked ICMPv6, and then got confused when IPv6 stopped working.