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Comment by dpark

6 days ago

I have a lot of trouble believing IPv6 matters here. Your link only talks about bandwidth (an extra 8kbps) and doesn’t even mention latency.

Edit: NAT also adds measurable latency. If anything I’d think avoiding NAT might actually make IPv6 lower latency than IPv4 on average.

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