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[guest3]

You can use your own kit. It's meant to be coming to my area as well so crossing my finger's it happens..

https://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,26644.msg446663.html#msg446663

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[DaveC]

I don't suppose you asked if the IPv6 will be a static prefix or not?  Although I would take IPv6 as "coming soon" with a pinch of salt.

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I didn't, no -- but I'll be sure to ask when I chat with them next.  I'm bound to think of a few more questions between now and April!

Yeah -- ISPs in general have a bit of a "tomorrow, forever" attitude to IPv6 (I'm looking at you, Vodafone). But what gives me a little hope is that a) this quite a young ISP, and b) the support person handled my technical queries very well.  Didn't miss a beat over my CGNAT queries, and seemed very knowledgeable.  His full reply re: IPv6 was that it was running within their network already, and that they were in the process of testing the configuration roll-out to their end-user equipment.  Which at the very least, sounds feasible.

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[Alex Atkin UK]

[Mark07]

Its expensive but that's kinda the point, it will put off people getting it who otherwise don't actually need it.

Exactly this.

IPV6 is already live in some areas as well

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It isn't much more than they'll be paying to lease the addresses from Cogent.

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Thanks all.

I've just set up a new pfSense box that should handle up to gigabit speeds just fine, so all that's left is to be connected -- sometime in April apparently.  Got one eye on one.network, watching the netomnia roadworks get closer and closer!

Glad to hear IPv6 is already rolling out.  That should really help with things like games consoles (especially the Switch, which even requires a static port on outbound NAT to work.  Ugh.)

I can see why a static v4 address is so (relatively) expensive these days.  And I'll get it if I need it, but it'll be fun to figure out if I can do without. 

I run an OpenVPN server on my pfSense box, set to TCP on port 443 for maximum reachability from far-flung hotels or corp. networks.  I think that's about the only use I had for IPv4 inbound.  I suppose that's not really an issue these days, considering my next trip abroad's probably still a long while away.

[Alex Atkin UK]

You're expecting Nintendo to support IPv6?  They're decades behind everyone else.

As for static IPv4, as long as you have a public IP you can always go the old fashioned way and use DDNS services.  Much better these days as you can use something like Cloudflare to use your own domain name at no extra cost.

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[Alex Atkin UK]

I got AAISP L2TP service so that I can have an incoming static IP over Vodafones mobile network, as its pure CGNAT there.   Useful as 4G does up to 35Mbit up vs the 16 of VDSL.

I tried playing around with my VPS, port forwarding over the OpenVPN connection I have to that (so that Webmin is not public facing), but for some reason I couldn't get it to work.  If I tried forwarding to the web server on my NAS at home it would appear to work but then hang.

Its great knowing just enough about networking to get things working sometimes, but then hit roadblocks you don't understand at other times.