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Generally speaking the deployment of IPv6 (dynamic \/56 prefix) across BT<\/a>’s consumer ISP network in the UK has gone well but one key area where they still appear to be struggling is with adding support to their venerable HomeHub 5 router, which is widely installed across the customer base.<\/p>\n

At the end of 2016 BT<\/a> confirmed that “all broadband lines<\/em>” (back then this excluded older IPstream connections) were now capable of using the Internet Protocol v6<\/strong> (IPv6) addressing standard (here<\/a>), which is being adopted because the old IPv4 address space has been depleted (IP addresses are used to identify your connection online and communicate with other internet servers etc.).<\/p>\n

The news was widely welcomed, although like most of the major ISPs BT<\/a> has faced some challenges in updating their older routers to support the new standard. Initially only the provider’s more modern SmartHub<\/strong> (including the latest G.fast<\/a> supporting SmartHub X<\/strong>) router fully supported IPv6, while the widely installed HomeHub 5<\/strong> was promised to follow during “early 2017<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Fast forward one year and customers with the operator’s HH5 (type A or B) router have yet to see full IPv6 support on their devices, with the firmware remaining stubbornly IPv4. Similarly a recent meeting of the UK IPv6 Council<\/a> saw BT’s Senior Network Architect, Nick Heatley<\/strong>, confirm<\/a> that 25% of their consumer broadband users (and growing) now use IPv6; this figure would be much higher with HH5 support.<\/p>\n

Speaking last week BT’s MD and Chief Architect, Neil McRae<\/strong>, responded to a comment on the matter to confirm that the ISP has had “some challenges with Hub 5 and it was looking unlikely<\/u> that we can enable V6 for it<\/em>.” Apparently the problems are “outside [BT’s] control<\/em>” (hardware issue?) but they “haven\u2019t given up<\/em>” on trying to find a solution. We will update again if BT are able to provide us with any extra info. this week.<\/p>\n

In the meantime it looks like the only way to get IPv6 on BT is to either adopt a third-party router that supports their \/56 approach or get the newer SmartHub (either at cost or via a package upgrade). One interesting point is that the spec sheet for Plusnet<\/a>’s Hub One<\/strong> router (here<\/a>), which is based off the HH5A, was originally touted as including “IPv6 support<\/em>” but the ISP has yet to adopt it (possibly they just assumed the Hub would support IPv6 as that was the plan).<\/p>\n

Still at least BT is considerably further along than Virgin Media<\/a> and TalkTalk<\/a>. The former looks set to launch IPv6 this year, while TalkTalk<\/a> is still non-committal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Generally speaking the deployment of IPv6 (dynamic \/56 prefix) across BT’s consumer ISP network in the UK has gone well but one key area where they still appear to be struggling is with adding support to their venerable HomeHub 5 router, which is widely installed across the customer base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474,88],"class_list":["post-15570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-ipv6"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"\nBT HomeHub 5 Broadband ISP Router Struggling to Support IPv6 - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Generally speaking the deployment of IPv6 (dynamic \/56 prefix) across BT's consumer ISP network in the UK has gone well but one key area where they still\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/02\/bt-homehub-5-broadband-router-still-struggling-support-ipv6.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BT HomeHub 5 Broadband ISP Router Struggling to Support IPv6 - 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