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Subject: FidoNews 40:01 [02/0 Date: Fri Jan 06 2023 02:47 am
From: Alan Ianson To: Michiel van der Vlist

>> I live out in the boonies of BC in a small town. There may not be IPv6
>> on the wire here and that might be the reason I don't get IPv6 here.

> That puzzles me. Once the fysical infrasturcture is there, supplying IPv6 to
> customers in rural areas should be no more difficult than doing so in
> metropolitan areas. The cables are IP version agnostic.

It puzzles me too but that is the norm here.

>> I have my eyes on IPv6 and will set it up when it arrives here.

> Here we have tech forums on the internet where ISP customers meet and compare
> notes. Don't you have that in Canada? Perhaps you can already have IPv6 but
> some flag need to be set by the ISP. Or you need a router update. Something
> like that. Comparing notes with fellow customers may help.

No one I have talked too knows what IPv6 is. It's much the same when I call tech
support and ask about it. I have to explain what IPv6 is.

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