{"id":36380,"date":"2023-11-21T12:42:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T12:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=36380"},"modified":"2023-11-21T12:42:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T12:42:05","slug":"broadband-isp-plusnet-uk-prep-new-ipv6-technical-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/11\/broadband-isp-plusnet-uk-prep-new-ipv6-technical-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadband ISP PlusNet UK Prep New IPv6 Technical Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Low-cost broadband provider Plusnet<\/a>, which is part of the wider BT<\/a> Group, has today revealed that they will shortly launch a new technical trial to test their planned deployment of the IPv6 internet addressing standard, which comes a over a decade after they first trialled the technology.<\/p>\n

Internet protocol addresses (IP) help you and your devices (or software) to connect with others around the online world \u2013 like an ID number for your connection. Unfortunately, the IPv4 address space could only handle 4 billion addresses and that supply has long 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 (i.e. CGNAT \/ IP address sharing 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 the likes of Plusnet<\/a>, Virgin Media<\/a> and Vodafone<\/a> being notable holdouts.<\/p>\n

The fact that Plusnet<\/a> still doesn\u2019t have support for IPv6, despite being a part BT<\/a> (they adopted it years ago) and using almost identical end-user hardware (routers etc.), has always been somewhat of a peculiarity. Not to mention that in 2011 they become one of the first ISPs in the UK to trial it and even urged the rest of the industry to follow their lead (here<\/a>). All of that now seems rather comical.<\/p>\n

In 2019 Plusnet predicted they\u2019d finally be ready to launch IPv6 in the spring of 2020, but due to the pandemic that never happened. In 2021 the ISP informed ISPreview that they still had \u201ca few more things we need to do<\/em>\u201d before IPv6 went live, but they still expected to “make good progress over the coming year<\/em>“, yet two years on and nothing has happened, until now.<\/p>\n

What’s new with Plusnet?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The key development today (credits to Ray for spotting) is that Plusnet’s Dave Tomlinson has just finished giving a key presentation to the annual IPv6 Council Annual Meeting 2023<\/a>, which confirmed that they’re about to launch a very small new technical trial of the technology on their “Low Touch Network<\/em>” (this reflects the part that 90% of their customers use – the other 10% are mostly business and more advanced users, such as those with a static IP address assigned).<\/p>\n

Plusnet’s IPv6 Trial Deployment Plan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Set up connectivity<\/p>\n

Single user test – assign a \/41 statically<\/p>\n

Low volume technical trial<\/p>\n

up to ~20 staff and friendly customers
\n2 MSEs in Chesterfield\/Sheffield
\nEach MSE to be assigned a \/41
\nEach customer to be assigned a dynamic \/56
\nAAAA DNS over IPv4<\/p>\n

Run for ~3 month<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We don’t currently have a lot of detail to share, but the related slides<\/a> do add a small amount of extra context, and we have also asked Plusnet to comment on the new plan. But it’s probably wise for customers not to get too excited (not that IPv6 = excitement for anybody except we IT bods), since it took the best part of 12 years to reach this point and any launch plans they may now harbour should be taken within that context. We’re reminded of the Ents from Lords of the Rings ™.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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