alt Hacker NewsI wonder if there will ever come a day when IPv6 will provide a better web experience than IPv4.
At the moment pretty much every website is reachable via IPv4 but a lot not via IPv6. Will there be a day when this turns around?
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It already does. With IPv6, you don't go through some CGNAT box, that could misbehave or just break (and since the biggest chunk of content is available through IPv6, this may not be a priority). Also, a shared IPv4 can be banned by various sites if one of the owner misbehaves. This issue is not present with IPv6.
More on this: https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2024-why-ipv6
Faster webrtc establishments and other negotiated connections. CGNAT means more relayed than P2P connections so it should be possible to have more direct traffic for services that want to save that bandwidth.
I would expect online video games to be a more important driver.
> a better web experience than IPv4
That's already the case. IPv6 is often faster because most ISPs these days use cgnat for IPv4.