On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 6:07 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:


On 11/26/21 1:44 PM, Jean St-Laurent via NANOG wrote:

Here are some maths and 1 argument kicking ass pitch for CFO’s that use iphones.

Apple tells app devs to use IPv6 as it's 1.4 times faster than IPv4

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-tells-app-devs-to-use-ipv6-as-its-1-4-times-faster-than-ipv4/

 

Build around that maybe?


This really hits my bs meter big time. I can't see how nat'ing is going to cause a 40% performance hit during connections. The article also mentions http2 (and later v3) which definitely make big improvements so I'm suspecting that the author is conflating them.

Mike


Ok, take the same ipv6 is faster claim from facebook

https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2015/04/facebook-news-feeds-load-20-40-faster-over-ipv6/