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woo ipv6 day June 8th 2011 coming soon and on my birthday (does this mean I get an ipv6 address as a present ) anyways whats your take on ipv6 and how you think it will affect people.

I personally don't think it will be a big problem as the media has made out. For Example who remembers the Millennium Bug? Correct...No One!

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Your right - its not a big problem personally for most. But for serious software and companies who cannot go down...
Every file, field and program has to be checked and tested - no kidding a masive effort.
I do indeed remember the Millennium Bug, it was for me a 12 month contract.

wouldn't be so much of a problem yes, but that is not what I was talking about , I saying how it affects people, Good, bad, I predict that there will be some problems, Murphy's Law states anything that can go wrong will go wrong, albeit most likely small.

I saying how it affects people

OK... it won't affect anyone because no one will really know about it. Of course I am talking general here for the normal everyday Internet user. I think people would only notice the change if their Internet speed increased by 100%!

There we go Optimism finally, anyways my isp is needing support for ipv6 especially since I haven't been able to test ipv6 in pchat

guinness wrote:

I saying how it affects people

OK... it won't affect anyone because no one will really know about it. Of course I am talking general here for the normal everyday Internet user. I think people would only notice the change if their Internet speed increased by 100%!

I think people would notice if their internet speed decreased 100% too!
And unavailability of some sites is such drastic decrease. But I don't think it will be that bad either.

Zach Thibeau wrote:woo ipv6 day June 8th 2011 coming soon and on my birthday (does this mean I get an ipv6 address as a present ) anyways whats your take on ipv6 and how you think it will affect people.

The IPv6 address space is so massive that everyone on Earth can have 48,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them.

Hydaral wrote:The IPv6 address space is so massive that everyone on Earth can have 48,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them.

Oops, that limits me enormously

guinness wrote:

I saying how it affects people

OK... it won't affect anyone because no one will really know about it. Of course I am talking general here for the normal everyday Internet user. I think people would only notice the change if their Internet speed increased by 100%!

i agree, i have yet to encounter anything that utilizes ipv6.
infact, i have it disabled on my computer.