UK ISP Andrews and Arnold ( AAISP ) has today announced they are dropping IPv4 totally and only providing services and broadband via IPv6 . The provider hopes that this "bold move" will finally shake off the legacy IPv4 internet. In a further effort to improve the internet AAISP will also make sure that its email servers only accept mail from IPv6 addresses.

IPv4 addresses are assigned to your computer each time you go online (e.g. 123.23.56.98). It is a unique online identifier made up of four number groups and allows you to communicate with other computers around the world; not unlike a phone number for voice calls. Sadly you can only have so many IPv4 addresses and as a result IPv6 was designed.


Nice try Adrian :laugh: .

UPDATE 12:48pm

Some more April Fool's Day ISP news doing the rounds.

Firstly, Virgin Media reveals that it has been using Ferrets for over a year to help lay cables for its broadband service (this one might actually be true lol) - HERE. Also TalkTalk has invented a new Ethernet cable that boosts broadband speed by 332% without any loss of quality and over a longer distance - HERE.