Tuesday, November 29th 2011
First Affordable IPv6 Router Begins To Be Available In The UK
IPv6 routers have existed for some time now, but there are currently very few models available. These are also very expensive at over £100 / $156 approx. However, the Technicolor TG582n router promises to be the first home router that's affordably priced and suitable for the home market. It's not quite on general sale yet, but is being provided as a "free with the service" router from business and techy-oriented Andrews & Arnold ISP - www.aaisp.net - preconfigured to work with their service straight out of the box. AAISP Director, Adrian Kennard had this to say about the new router:
IPv4 depletion can be monitored at: ipv4depletion.com
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ISP Review
Technicolor: (TG582n). Well, what can I say? They sent an engineer to our offices, by which I mean someone that can read packet dumps on the router correctly and understand them! We spent a day with him checking out their test code and making some tweaks our end as well and we got it working. They have one of our lines in their offices and have been testing.The sooner that countries migrate to IPv6 the better, because when IPv4 addresses run out, the internet will stop. Not really. It will mean however, that no new devices can come online without going through Network Address Translation (NAT) which has its own performance issues and caveats.
They have been working with us and proving new code as we find issues. We have customers testing these routers and are now shipping the IPv6 software. The routers are small, they have wifi, and cheap enough to be our standard "free with the service" router.
So, Technicolor it is - our new standard IPv6 router and it even has WiFi. Given that RIPE expect to run out or IPv4s next year UK ISPs need to get their act together and start making IPv6 standard. A sensibly priced consumer DSL router with IPv6 as standard will help a lot. Well done Technicolor.
IPv4 depletion can be monitored at: ipv4depletion.com
20 Comments on First Affordable IPv6 Router Begins To Be Available In The UK
40GB daytime (9/6) and 100GB for evenings and weekends per month ends up 56£
Prices seem steep to me
You are allowed 2 units of data usage for the base price, each additional unit is 3.90£. GB per Unit or GBpu specified here is daytime usage (9AM-6PM Mon-Fri), the rest is 6PM-9AM and weekends @ 50GB/unit. Ther percentages is the "coverage of the country"
BT20CN 100%: 20£ + 1.25GBpu
BT21CN 50%: 20£ + 2.5GBpu
BE 75%: 40.55£ + 10GBpu
BT FTTC or FTTP: 30.25£ + 2.5GBpu
Full list of D-Link products with IPv6 support:So yes, far from the first and definitely not the most affordable. Maybe it's the first Technicolor offers but they're way behind the curve.
* After 12 months of usage of overpriced internet
and can we just unplug our old IPv4 router and put this one and expect it to work straight away ?
And Iv'e always said I could care less about what the muppets all over the EU think about the UK, let's see who the developing country is when the likes of Spain, Greece and Italy bring down that shithouse that is the EUedit just noticed your from Sweden, well we started the industrial revolution my friend, wtf have Sweden brought to the world apart from ABBA :roll:, perhaps next time keep your personal offensive remarks to yourself and stay OT ? :slap:www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Sweden&word2=UK+ :rockout:
But yeah, on topic. Isn't the IPv4 pool empty by now? The reason ISP's in the west have been very very slow to adapt v6 is because they were given giant blocks of adresses to begin with. It's the same with universities as well. Anyone knows how it's working out in Asia? I'd imagine they need it more than people in the West does..