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World ipv6 day

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 6:02 am
by Zach Thibeau
woo ipv6 day June 8th 2011 coming soon and on my birthday (does this mean I get an ipv6 address as a present :P) anyways whats your take on ipv6 and how you think it will affect people.

Re: World ipv6 day

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 6:46 am
by guinness
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! :)

More details here too (for those interested): http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?p=30424

Re: World ipv6 day

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:12 am
by NickR
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.

Re: World ipv6 day

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:23 am
by Zach Thibeau
wouldn't be so much of a problem yes, but that is not what I was talking about :P, 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.

Re: World ipv6 day

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:19 am
by guinness
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%! :)

Re: World ipv6 day

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:13 am
by Zach Thibeau
There we go :P Optimism finally, anyways my isp is needing support for ipv6 especially since I haven't been able to test ipv6 in pchat :(

Re: World ipv6 day

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:12 pm
by m^(2)
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.

Re: World ipv6 day

Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 6:36 pm
by Hydaral
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 :P) 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.

Re: World ipv6 day

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:59 am
by Checker
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 :lol:

Re: World ipv6 day

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:44 pm
by Magibon
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.