On Tuesday November 29 2016 21:11, you wrote to me:
MV>> The cable modem change I did yesterday appears to be a succes. I MV>> now have stable native IPv6. Dual stack.
MV>> So far so good...
NB> Did you switch providers also then?
No. Switching provider is not really an option under my conditions here. Ziggo (a subsidiary of Liberty Global) has a monopoly on the green coax cable. DSL is available and the owner of the copper must allow competition. So if I go for DSL I have a choice between an number of providers. Some offer IPv6, some do not. But they all have to make use of the same copper and the cables designed for analog telephony here in the street are well over half a century old. I suspect most of it was laid before I was born. So the DSL providers simply can't match the bandwidth offered by the cable.
So I just changed the cable modem for a model that supports IPv6.
It was a bit of a gamble if that would work. Contrary to the DSL providers that allow you to buy and connect your own modem/router, the cable company gives you a modem/router on loan. And those router/modems have customised firmware. Their CMTSa presumably are all IPv6 ready. They have several modem types in circulation but presently only ONE model support IPv6. The Ubee EVW321b. BUT.. they won't give you a particular model if you ask for it. When you get a new modem, they just randomly take one of the shelve. Also, rumour has it that the modesm that have 8 bonded downlink channels are fased out in favour of the newer models that do 16 bonded channels. So the chances of getting an EVW321b via the regular ofiicial channels are slim if not zero.
As I said, they give you the CPE on loan. The contract states that it has to be returned eventually. With a penalty of EUR 65 for failure. So these modems are not supposed to apeear on the market. Fact is that they do. Aldo they have the legal right to demand return of the ol modes, they often do not insist and customers are requested to dispose of old modems themselves. Also modems get lost because of adminstrative errors.
So I got myself an EVM321b on "Marktplaats", That is the Dutch "E-Bay". Got it for EUR 15. The guy I got it from said he got a new modem wth a speed uopgrade and they never ask to return the old one.
This was a bit of a gamble. The first gamble was of course if the modem would work at all. Buying things on the 2nd hand market always carries the risk of buying a led instead of gold.
The second gamble was if I could get it registered with- and accepted by the cable company. I didn't get it through their official channels. From their POV it is a renegade. Much to my surprise however I managed to register it with the activation codes supplied to me for my previous modem.
So now I am a happy camper...
So far so good. It does what I want it to do. I have stable dual stack. But I have already found some quirks.
