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Hello Jay,

On Wednesday July 23 2025 09:47, you wrote to me:

 Mv>> It is my understanding that in many parts of the rest of the
 Mv>> world the situation is different. Many poviders still do not
 Mv>> offer IPv6 and there is no competition between providers.

 JH> Here in my city in Canada my cable provider (Rogers) supports native
 JH> IPv6 but Bell Fibe (fibre direct to the house) does not.

And so there is competition and you have a choice. Have you told Bell Fibre
that IPv6 was an issue when choosing for competitor?

 JH> To make things more confusing, if I were to buy cable internet from a
 JH> reseller (e.g. Teksavvy), they don't support IPv6 over cable.  If I
 JH> were to buy fibre internet from Teksavvy, they do support IPv6 but
 JH> getting it to work involves using your own router, SFP module &
 JH> knowing how to configure it.

Aha. From personal experience I can tell you that installing one's own ONT and
router is doable. It is how my fibre connection pesently works.

By EU directive providers here must facilitate the use of consumer owned
network equipment. My fibre provider, Delta, offers IPv6 but the modem/router
they provide is buggy. IPv4 port forwarding does not always work and IPv6
pinholing does not work at all. I reported these problems but they seem to be
unable to fix it. And so I decided to do some pioneering. I got myself a Nokia
XS-101X-Q ONT and a Mikrotik HEX router and after some struggling with
RouterOS I got it to work.

 JH> So Rogers Cable is the only "plug & play" IPv6 provider in my
 JH> neighbourhood at the moment.

At least there is one.


Cheers, Michiel

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