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Some interesting stats from <
https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/ipv6-usage-reaches-historic-50-percent-across-google-services-matching-ipv4-increased-usage-eases-pressure-on-the-ipv4-address-market-as-new-protocol-designed-in-1998-finally-hits-its-stride>:
• 50% of users of Google’s services connect over IPv6
• 43% of the world uses IPv6, with some parts approaching 50%
• Cloudflare reports 40% of its traffic is done via IPv6
Choice quote:
Some people still think that the additional 20 bytes or so of an
IPv6 packet header translates to significant bandwidth losses,
higher CPU usage, and hair loss. The reality is that even 11 years
ago, Facebook's tests saw that IPv6 connectivity was around 10-15%
faster overall, while networking giant Akamai noticed a 5% speedup
in mobile page loading. The speedups are almost assuredly due to
the fact that with IPv6, there's very little need to do math with
NAT, proxies, and other shenanigans, as in most instances,
everything can directly connect to everything else.
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