alt Hacker NewsAre there really ISPs that don't support IPv6? I've had IPv6 from various ISPs since around 2010, and even my phone gets an IPv6 address from the cellular network.
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It varies in different parts of the world. Here in New Zealand all except one fixed line (i.e. fibre/xDSL) provider offers IPv6 (the only hold out being the ex-government telco). Wireless/mobile (4G/5G mobile or FWA) is a different story however as all wireless/mobile networks are IPv4 only still to this day (even thogh two of them are also fixed line providers offering IPv6 via their fixed line service!).
Bell Canada does not provide IPv6 to Internet customers but their cell network does support it. They're one of what we call "the big three".
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...
Looks like Canada has roughly 40% adoption, and USA roughly 50% adoption.
Yes and it's ANNOYING. In Switzerland there is literally not one cellular network that issues IPv6 addresses. Also my workplace network (a school using some sort of Microslop solution) doesn't issue IPv6es.
I have a IPv6-only VPN with some personal services. Theoretically, the data can be transported via IPv4, but Android doesn't even query AAAA records if it doesn't have a route for [::]/0. So when I'm not home, I can't reach my VPN servers, because there is supposedly no address.
(I fix it by routing all IPv6 traffic through my VPN. Just routing connectivitycheck may suffice though).