On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:15 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
In message <AF24AE2D4A4D334FB9B667985E2AE763A3AC06@mail1-sea.office.spectrumnet .us>, John van Oppen writes:
I was wondering the same thing... we have v6 enabled to about 700 users i= n our native Ethernet to the home deployment here in Seattle. Unfortunat= ely, user routers don't seem to often support v6 resulting in only about 2-= 8% of users in most buildings using it, and most of those are just people p= lugged directly into the wall jacks we provide without routers. I wonder = how long it will take for everyone to upgrade their home routers.
John
If all the home CPE router vendors stopped shipping IPv4 only boxes, not that long. At the moment the price point for IPv6 CPE routers is still 2-3x the IPv4 only boxes when you can find one though not all of that difference is IPv6. The IPv6 boxes often have multiple radio and other extras. This shows that CPE vendors still see IPv6 as something *extra* and not something that should be *standard*.
The D-Link DIR series v6 capables are not actually more than about a 10% premium over the corresponding ipv4-only competition. I see them in computer stores fairly regularly these days. Owen