topic Re: Progress so far in IPv6 Trial

Progress so far

dvorak — Sun, 29 May 2011 13:47:54 GMT

Using a 7800N and grabbing the firmware 1.06d from the Aussie billion site and upgrading.
It's all working well now:

Issue i had was when specifying the DNS servers it failed to allocate an IPv6 address, whether this is a PN issue or OpenDNS I don't know.

Re: Progress so far

dvorak — Mon, 30 May 2011 14:00:08 GMT

speed test results

had no trouble browsing IPv6 facebook or google.

Re: Progress so far

David_W — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:01:12 GMT

I ran that test, large discrepancy between 4 and 6 speeds for me, though I recall reading something about IPV6 and Cisco causing issues, I'll try to dig it up.

/edit - A quote from Andrews and Arnold...
[quote=http://aaisp.net.uk/kb-broadband-ipv6-tech.html]Cisco notes
For at least one customer running native IPv6 on a Cisco 877 router, they had a huge disparity between IPv4 and IPv6 speeds. IPv6 file transfers were about 10 times slower than IPv4 transfers!
It turned out to be a Cisco IOS bug; once the IPv6 stateful firewall (inspect) had been disabled, IPv6 ran at full speed.
It is Cisco bug CSCtb10776 (Inspection drops NIC-segmented packets when WScale is on). It can also be worked around by disabling TCP window scaling on the affected hosts, but that can have performance implications of its own. It has been fixed in IOS versions:
15.1(0.18)T
12.4(25b)M0.13
15.0(1)M1.2
I'm using 15.1(3)T so it shouldn't be that affecting me. Running another test and the speeds changed, now IPV6 is faster than IPV4.. Third test about equal, so something I should keep an eye on?

Re: Progress so far

dvorak — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:54:03 GMT

my tests are consistently close

Re: Progress so far

David_W — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:08:17 GMT

My latest:

Maybe it's an issue on my side, I know Kaspersky tends to mess up the PlusNet speed test although usually it's by jumping the speed up 10 fold.

Re: Progress so far

dave — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:01:20 GMT

Slightly lower IPv6 result for me, using OS X 10.5 on the Zyxel

Re: Progress so far

David_W — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:47:35 GMT

Final test for the night:

100% the same

Re: Progress so far

avatastic — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:31:13 GMT

Re: Progress so far

Bremmy — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:32:32 GMT

Up and running with my 7800N, scored 10/10 for both IPv4 & IPv6 readiness at test-ip6.com so I think I'm okay.

Re: Progress so far

bobpullen — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:00:11 GMT

Here's my speedtest using a Zyxel 660HN-T1:

Re: Progress so far

AxeMurderer — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:55:54 GMT

Read 'em and weep...