[AusNOG] "Sky completes roll out of IPv6 becoming the first major UK Internet provider to future-proof its service for customers"

[Mark Smith]

TL;DR? Want snappy Internet for you customers?

Push DNS caches and content servers from anybody you can get as close to
your customers as possible - into the NBN POIs for example, and switch off
ADSL etc. interleaving off or set it as low as you can.

On 7 Sep 2016 17:30, "Mark Smith" <markzzzsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7 Sep 2016 16:52, "John Mann" <john.mann at monash.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Assuming "Sky" == "AS5607: BSKYB-BROADBAND-AS"
> > We get
> >    http://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/AS5607?a=5607&c=GB&x=1&s=1&p=1&w=7
> >  80+% of their users do IPv6
> >
> > The other good news is that AS5607 has the most Samples (3.1M)
> > and so looks to be the busiest ISP in GB.
> >
> > The other big ISPs: BT (2.5%) and Virgin (0%) have a way to go yet.
> >
>
> Another apnic stats website worth having a look around is their new IPv6
vs IPv4 performance one, announced in Geoff's blog post recently:
>
> https://blog.apnic.net/2016/08/22/ipv6-performance-revisited/
>
> To put some usability context behind that, humans perceive a response
less than or equal to about 100 ms to be reacting instantaneously:
>
> https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-limits/
>
> So, for example, when a user clicks a link, there should be some
indication the page is loading, and ideally, although probably pretty hard
to achieve, the page has completed loading within 100ms.
>
> That 100ms budget can get pretty stretched if you consider the time to
perform a DNS lookup, and then complete a TCP 3 way handshake before any
data for the webpage gets sent and then displayed in some form.
>
> That's the motivation for TCP Fast Open:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_Fast_Open?wprov=sfla1
>
> Regards,
> Mark.
>
> > Thanks,
> >     John
> >
> >
> > On 7 September 2016 at 16:32, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
https://corporate.sky.com/media-centre/news-page/2016/sky-completes-roll-out-of-ipv6-becoming-the-first-major-uk-internet-provider-to-future-proof-its-service-for-customers
> >>
> >> "Sky today announces that over 90% of its broadband customers are now
> >> IPv6 enabled"
> >>
> >> and going by this article, that is 5.34 million subscribers IPv6
enabled.
> >>
> >>
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2016/04/uk-isp-sky-broadband-grows-6-million-subscribers.html
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> >
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