People love this graph and regularly tout it as if it explains full internet usage. Especially when they dont bother to add any explanation or comment alongside it.
This graph is mainly due to the fact that telcos use IPv6 for mobile devices, nothing more. Over time you will see that graph flatline and peter out as mobile device uage reaches critical mass.
It seems more the other end of the stick: the IPv4 side of the graph is mainly held up due to corporations. The consumer internet continues to switch, but corporate VPNs are going to continue to drag down the numbers until corporations get charged enough for IPv4 address space that bottom lines start to notice.
Yes good point, I agree that IPv4 addresses are going to become a commodity in the future and their value will start to increase dramatically to the point where it is only corporations which can afford to use them. IPv6 use may well start to spike again if that happens.
Yep, and even with all those countries with their billions of mobile devices IPv6 use still hasnt even reached 50%.
Pretty much all ISPs hand out both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses to their clients, this is nothing new. When they start only issueing IPv6 IPs is when it would start truly taking off, but it will never get to that point and it will never happen.
> Over time you will see that graph flatline and peter out as mobile device uage reaches critical mass.
...what? The majority of people access the Internet from their phone, and not only since yesterday either. Are you arguing that this is temporary fad somehow?
I am arguing that at some point there wont be any more people without phones, meaning it has reached critical mass and so IPv6 adoption will stall. The number of smartphones in the world will not keep on going up forever.
People love this graph and regularly tout it as if it explains full internet usage. Especially when they dont bother to add any explanation or comment alongside it.
This graph is mainly due to the fact that telcos use IPv6 for mobile devices, nothing more. Over time you will see that graph flatline and peter out as mobile device uage reaches critical mass.
In US even desktops have 45% adoption rate: https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=i...
afaik every single major US fixed line ISP is rolling out ipv6.
Yep, every ISP and every device supports IPv6 and has done for ages.
Show me one where they have disabled IPv4 and only use IPv6 that is not a mobile device or Telco ISP.
It seems more the other end of the stick: the IPv4 side of the graph is mainly held up due to corporations. The consumer internet continues to switch, but corporate VPNs are going to continue to drag down the numbers until corporations get charged enough for IPv4 address space that bottom lines start to notice.
Yes good point, I agree that IPv4 addresses are going to become a commodity in the future and their value will start to increase dramatically to the point where it is only corporations which can afford to use them. IPv6 use may well start to spike again if that happens.
Every major ISP in the US, India, and most of the rest of Asia that I’ve seen is handing out and using IPv6 now too.
Hell, chances are if you got a new router (like any new client) for your ISP, you’d be on v6 too.
Yep, and even with all those countries with their billions of mobile devices IPv6 use still hasnt even reached 50%.
Pretty much all ISPs hand out both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses to their clients, this is nothing new. When they start only issueing IPv6 IPs is when it would start truly taking off, but it will never get to that point and it will never happen.
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It was simply to point out that you are objectively incorrect. No commentary was necessary. My phone and home broadband both use IPv6 primarily.
If you were correct, that graph would have been over 50% ages ago.
As it is, that graph is showing how adoption is slowing and has been for the last 10 years.
Hardly anybodies physical internet connection is using IPv6 primarily worldwide, those numbers are all mobile device space.
> Over time you will see that graph flatline and peter out as mobile device uage reaches critical mass.
...what? The majority of people access the Internet from their phone, and not only since yesterday either. Are you arguing that this is temporary fad somehow?
I don't think they are arguing for a decrease. I took flatline and peter out to mean stabilize.
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I am arguing that at some point there wont be any more people without phones, meaning it has reached critical mass and so IPv6 adoption will stall. The number of smartphones in the world will not keep on going up forever.
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What is the source of the seasonality in that graph? Spikes up a little each summer.
Maybe iPhone release time?!
If that is the case then why does it drop in absolute terms later in the year?