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Google IPv6 traffic hit an all-time high this week: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

Judging by the weekly cycle having IPv6 at work is more rare than home (weekends are when IPv6 traffic hits its peaks).

Several major ISPs in the US rolled out IPv6 years ago, as did some of the big cell phone companies. US businesses generally have enough IPv4 addresses for their needs (though probably running NAT and considering the issues part of their firewall policy). As such there is an uptick on weekends and most people have no clue what is going on down in the bottom (which is a good thing - the average person shouldn't care about anything below OSI layer 7 - their application).

Yep, at home it's enabled automatically by the ISPs, at work, admins have to turn it on and that means extra work for them.

Even at home, many home wifi routers do not have IPv6 enabled, and there are many in-home devices that still don't support it.

Google's numbers for IPv6 connections used are significantly (about 40%) lower than the percentage of homes and other locations that have IPv6 enabled by their ISP to their location.

And still below 50%.

My personal benchmark: hotels. I have not seen a _single_ hotel that provides IPv6 on their WiFi. And I made a habit of checking this every time I check in.

And I've seen a hotel that was giving out public IPv4 addresses (in Mountain View, CA).

> And still below 50%.

Depends on the country. US>50%; FR>80%:

* https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...

Trending up at about 2-5% every year, so about to cross the threshold within the next few years. We're in the middle of the S curve.

Got IPv6 over wifi in a hotel in Costa Rica, really nice.

> I have not seen a _single_ hotel that provides IPv6 on their WiFi.

Currently staying at a Hilton hotel in Tucson, Arizona that has IPv6. I only checked because of the submission about ipv6.me yesterday [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43256298

I'm not there at the moment, but I definitely took note of having an ipv6 address displayed on https://ip6.me/home.cgi

I've gotten back to the hotel, and I take back this comment. The hotel wifi does not seem to actually route the ipv6 address it assigns.

I bought this laptop at an electronics recycler. It came with a verizon SIM card, with service that's still working. So this ipv6 address is from Verizon, not the hotel.

I honestly can't tell if this is sarcastic. Just 30 more years to go right?

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