On 6/18/14, 1:09 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> >> However, I also don't think consumer education is the answer: >> http://www.wleecoyote.com/blog/consumeraction.htm Summary: Until it >> is perfectly clear why a consumer needs IPv6, and what they need to >> do about it, consumer education will only cause fear and >> frustration, which will not be helpful. This is a technology >> problem, not a feature problem, and consumers shouldn't have to >> select which Internet to be on. >> >> Lee >> > > Short of consumer education, how do you expect to resolve the issue > where $CONSUMER walks into $BIG_BOX_CE_STORE and says "I need a > router, what's the cheapest one you have?"
The $39.95 dlink on the endcap at frys and the $140 one with 802.11ac beam forming atennas and gig-e run the same v6 stack... > Whereupon $TEENAGER_MAKING_MINIMUM_WAGE who likely doesn't know > DOCSIS 2 from DOCSIS 3, has no idea what IP actually is, and thinks > that Data is an android from Star Trek says "Here, this Linksys thing > is only $30." the software stack isn't the source of price discrimination. > Unless/until we either get the stores to pull the IPv4-only stuff off > their shelves or educate consumers, the continued deployment of > additional incapable equipment will be a continuing problem. As bad > as the situation is for cablemodems and residential gateways, at > least there, an educated consumer can make a good choice. Now, > consider DVRs, BluRay players, Receiver/Amplifiers, Televisions, etc. > where there are, currently, no IPv6 capable choices available to the > best of my knowledge. this stuff ages out of the network or doesn't require ipv4 for the entirety of it's useful service life. turns out for example that smart-tv's generally aren't (smart). Your appletv does support v6 as do many of those android sticks even if they're sufficiently inexpensive enough to be disposable. > Owen > >
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