FWIW, IPv6 has worked just fine for me since they enabled it (I don't think I had it when I initially got them as my ISP). I also have found them pretty responsive to even technical feedback, but maybe I've just been lucky.
Of course, there was that one time they "upgraded" our building and forgot to re-plug my line to the router, but, oh well..
Overall, this seems like a super niche topic for HN. :)
I believe it heavily depends on what kind of infrastructure you are using with them.
If you are on their old legacy network (aka, you have a RJ45 Ethernet jack into your house) you will likely going to have more issues than if you are on their (X)GPON network.
I had IPv6 working for a while on mine, but realize that for some insane reason that there was basically only one v6 prefix across my entire distribution switch (basically the switch shared with a few 100 other properties). so anytime that i was going to get a v6 i was effectively stealing it from another flat/house.
unfortunately trying to get in touch with anyone from Hyper-optic is really tricky, so I just gave up
they have since upgraded some of the infrastructure in the path, mostly moving away from Huawei to Nokia, but I am not entirely sure that has improved the situation.
I would argue that having to pay more than $20 for an address, having to do weird NAT hole punching to get a direct connection between two machines, and having an internet that can easily be completely scanned by hackers are all things that are not "working".
Working for you != working for everyone
Basically functioning != Working as well as it could
There are more advantages to IPv6. We don't see all of the advantages because we can't use them, because we are still largely stuck in an IPv4 world. This is a problem caused by not enabling IPv6.
FWIW, IPv6 has worked just fine for me since they enabled it (I don't think I had it when I initially got them as my ISP). I also have found them pretty responsive to even technical feedback, but maybe I've just been lucky.
Of course, there was that one time they "upgraded" our building and forgot to re-plug my line to the router, but, oh well..
Overall, this seems like a super niche topic for HN. :)
Same, haven't had any problems with IPv6 via Hyperoptic. He might just be unlucky having some defective equipment upstream.
I believe it heavily depends on what kind of infrastructure you are using with them.
If you are on their old legacy network (aka, you have a RJ45 Ethernet jack into your house) you will likely going to have more issues than if you are on their (X)GPON network.
I had IPv6 working for a while on mine, but realize that for some insane reason that there was basically only one v6 prefix across my entire distribution switch (basically the switch shared with a few 100 other properties). so anytime that i was going to get a v6 i was effectively stealing it from another flat/house.
unfortunately trying to get in touch with anyone from Hyper-optic is really tricky, so I just gave up
they have since upgraded some of the infrastructure in the path, mostly moving away from Huawei to Nokia, but I am not entirely sure that has improved the situation.
Another long network debug that stared by enabling IPv6. Keep it off. :)
Working > New
I would argue that having to pay more than $20 for an address, having to do weird NAT hole punching to get a direct connection between two machines, and having an internet that can easily be completely scanned by hackers are all things that are not "working".
Working for you != working for everyone
Basically functioning != Working as well as it could
There are more advantages to IPv6. We don't see all of the advantages because we can't use them, because we are still largely stuck in an IPv4 world. This is a problem caused by not enabling IPv6.
However if you have weird connection issues, starting by disabling IPv6 is often a very reasonable move if IPv6 was enabled.
Of course, once you figure out it's IPv6 related you can then work on figuring out what's actually going on.
Good thing James Watt didn't think along the same lines 250 years ago :)
I'm on Hyperoptic and use IPv6 regularly. Pretty sure it was enabled by default.
I haven't had the same problems this guy has, although I do believe his issues are real.