IPv6: it's probably about time I learned it.

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Thu Jul 28 16:32:20 EDT 2016


On 7/28/2016 11:39 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org> writes:
>
>> Hurricane Electric has some good resources plus a tunnel broker to give you
>> IPv6 in the event your ISP doesn't support it yet.
>>
>> https://tunnelbroker.net
> What kind of performance do you get from Hurricane?  Have you run e.g. a
> speedtest over your HE v6 tunnel versus your raw (v4) capabilities?
>

Interesting question.  I've had it running in my house for a few years 
and aside from my MacBook Air acting strange a few times I haven't 
noticed a problem with performance or reaching sites.

Here's my setup:

Router: BananaPi R1 running OpenWRT and doing the IPv6 tunneling
ISP: Verizon FIOS 75/75
System: Windows 10 box connected to router via GigE

speedtest.xfinity.com tests both IPv4 and IPv6 speeds.

IPv4: 83.9 Mbps down, 91.5 Mbps up
IPv6: 80.9 Mbps down, 87.9 Mbps up

Not really believing those results, I went to ipv6-test.com/speedtest 
which only tests against a server in Anchorage, AK:

IPv4: 57.8 Mbps
IPv6: 70.4 Mbps

Go figure.

-Mark


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