What’s their excuse?

19 points

Adding IPv6 would cost them money. Probably a relatively small amount of money, but still money. They get nothing from that investment. As long as they have IPv4 addresses to assign to their customers, there’s basically no demand for IPv6 addresses. NAT and UPnP work fine for just about everyone. I think the only way we see serious IPv6 adoption in North America and Europe is government mandates.

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It’s not working fine for me! I need a static address and they quoted me $200/mo for an IPv4 one.

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Does ddns or ngrok type solutions not work?

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DDNS doesn’t work behind CGNAT. Never heard of ngrok; google says it might work. I’m trying to do something with WireGuard.

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Mine told me I can have gigabit fiber, or static IP on 50mb/s copper, but not both, because something something piracy.

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5 points

Just torrent a bunch and I think they give you a static address so that they can potentially suenyou later.

My IP hasn’t changed in years.

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Mine told me I can have gigabit fiber, or static IP on 50mb/s copper, but not both, because something something piracy.

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Does ddns or ngrok type solutions not work?

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Damn that’s crazy. My ISP only charges me £4/mo for static ipv4 addresses.

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Mine told me I can have gigabit fiber, or static IP on 50mb/s copper, but not both, because something something piracy.

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16 points

There’s like 6 more bytes used for an IPv6 address, I think. Their server doesn’t have enough RAM to hold it all.

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6? try 12. They’re going to have to spring for a Pentium 2.

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8 points

Makes sense.

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The same reason so many “business server hosting” companies claim that a 5 year old unpatched version of PHP is “world class”.

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11 points

literally just too lazy, nobody is asking for it and at a small or medium scale probably no cost benefit to them besides future readiness

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8 points

I guess I should ask for it so they know there is demand.

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Laziness

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Greed

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I think it’s more laziness. If they were greedy they would charge for ipv6.

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5 points

its more the lets not spend money because nobody will pay for it kinda greed.

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