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Seven years have now passed since broadband ISP Virgin Media<\/a> (VMO2) first informed us that they finally planned to adopt the Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) addressing standard by mid-2017 (here<\/a>) and we’re still waiting. Customers of the provider keep asking us for a progress update, but sadly the answer remains unclear.<\/p>\n

Internet addresses (IP<\/a>) help connect you and your devices or software with others around the online world – like an ID number for your connection. Unfortunately, the IPv4 address space could only handle 4 billion addresses and that supply has long since been exhausted (except for the resale of existing address pools), which means that in the future ISPs will need to use the new IPv6 standard in order to continue adding new connections without compromise (e.g. IP<\/a> address sharing \/ CGNAT is a compromise that can cause problems).<\/p>\n

Sadly, the longer form IPv6 addresses are not directly compatible with older IPv4 addresses and so the two will need to be run side-by-side for many years to come (i.e. until the vast majority of the world has enabled IPv6). The good news is that there are various ways to resolve this challenge, but some providers have been dragging their feet for much longer than others, with one of those being Virgin Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Over the years’ we’ve seen the operator test a number of different approaches to deploying IPv6, some of which were better than others (mercifully they seem to have moved on from their Dual Stack Lite<\/strong> phase). But for whatever reason they’ve never actually got around to launching it, despite much of their network and hardware now being in an IPv6 ready state.<\/p>\n

So far as we can tell, the engineers seem to want it done, but the bean counters call the shots. More recently, there have also been some indications that the provider might be migrating customers to new DHCP servers, which look setup in a way that could possibly hint toward IPv6 deployment. But for now, the ISP prefers to keep it ambiguous.<\/p>\n

A Virgin Media spokesperson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We are continuing with our testing across the network as part of longer-term plans to deploy IPv6 for our broadband customers, and will announce further details in due course.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In fairness, Virgin Media has a good stock of spare IPv4s left, and on top of that they’re unlikely to face much real consumer pressure on the issue because, to most people, IP addresses are one of those largely invisible aspects of internet magic that you only notice when things go wrong. Some may argue that Virgin’s delay prevents people from connecting to IPv6-only services, but so few of those exists that it’s not (yet) a major issue.<\/p>\n

Still, who knows, perhaps they’ll have launched it before we ask again in another two years. Place your bets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seven years have now passed since broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) first informed us that they finally planned to adopt the Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) addressing standard by mid-2017 (here) and we’re still waiting. 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