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On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Shaun Orchard wrote:
On 19 January 2012 08:14, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Keep emailling ipv6@xxxxxxxx - also ask your reseller to get it enabled too - also ask him to contribute to the whingey thread about ipv6 on their synergi platform...You will probably be in for a huge wait, when I was on Entanet and requested it (very much back in the day when they'd just announced the "trial") it took them quite literally months to get back to me. I'd actually forgotten that I requested it until an email arrived one day with the details. I know people who never actually got a response from ipv6@ or support@.
One of the issues (heard on a grapevine ;-) is that their IPv6 traffic wasn't able to go through the traffic shapers that they were using which is one reason why I think they slowed down allocations - I'm guessing that the order of technology implementation seemed to have been - get IPv6, OMG we need to manage (IPv4) traffic better, implement something now, oh, it's no IPv6 ready - oh well, stop using IPv6...
But it's just a guess.My line went down at 8am on Friday because of an alledged bug in the PPPoE stack in Linux which caused their radius servers to fail the authentication - it took them 30 hours to work this out after getting BT involved, etc. the last chap I spoke with turned IPv6 off on my line, then back on again and I re-connected... (without IPv6). I restarted my modem and stopped/started the PPPoE session yesterday in an attempt to get IPv6 going again - and I have IPv6, but no routing. I can ping the default and get no further.
I've known Entanet for a very long time - they were actually one of my customers in the mid-90's when I was working for an ISP at the time, (we supplied with with a whole 2Mb line at the time!) so got to know their chief techie quite well. It's hard to get in-touch with him now as I suspect he's grossly overworked, so while I know that they have a good network (in-general) and very good connections to the Internet on the whole, I fear they're being let-down by their support side while sales and marketing are running out of control. Just my theory...
Which other ISPs are doing IPv6 though? AAISP - however I'd end up paying over £100 a month for their service based on my current Entanet usage - however I know that if I ever had to call them the issue would be fixed on the spot and the person I was taking to would be fully trained - one reason it's so costly... Who else? Goscomb - a bit pricey too (I have a customer I setup with them - although if you can get a Be line, they resell that and it's not too bad for a business quality line - £30 a month+VAT for 200GB)
Then who.. Off the top of my head, I really don't know.The next IPv6 day is June the 6th, and they're saying "it's for keeps this time" - so not turning it back off again like they did last year. I've got an allocation for my hosted servers which I'm slowly rolling out - so I might be cheeky and set myself up with a tunnel to the data centre rather then keep on relying on Entanet.
Ah, heres a list of ISPs:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ipv6
AAISP
Clara.net
Entanet
Exa Networks
Goscomb Technologies
IDNet
Webtapestry
So a few to choose from, but a complete abssense of the big players. If
only the likes of PlusNet would spend money on IPv6 than their silly TV
adverts!!!
Gordon
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