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Please no. I used to have a Dutch ISP a few months ago that did not support IPv6 yet. (Odido. Same ISP that leaked my data in a big hack.)

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Odido is the cheapest ISP for a reason. They refuse to implement anything that isn't strictly required.

Perhaps implementing an Odido tax might actually make Odido care enough to throw the switch on IPv6. They bought 2a02:4240::/32, they just refuse to make use of it.

> They refuse to implement anything strictly required

This describes a lot of businesses ngl.

Bell in Canada is one huge head scratcher. They are one of the largest ISPs here and I can even buy 8 gig internet to my house if I want but they don't support IPv6.

Apparently (according to techs) a lot of ISPs are like that - they said they have everything up and running and even tested to turn on IPv6 but they haven't received the go-ahead.

He mentioned this because marking my connection as a "business" one without changing anything else would allow it to get IPv6 (a /64, bah).

they do use it in their speedtest server.

  curl -v https://speedtest.ams.t-mobile.nl.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net:8080
  ...
  * Connected to speedtest.ams.t-mobile.nl.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net (2a02:4240::e) port 8080

Probably a requirement from Ookla, so again "They refuse to implement anything that isn't strictly required".

Canadian ISPs are also extremely far behind on IPv6. Bell is the largest ISPs in the country and they still don't have IPv6. I'm with one of their wholly owned subsidiaries (EBOX) which offers static /56 allocations, but good luck trying to find anyone in tech support who understands WTF you're talking about.

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