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Is moving to IPv6 worth it?
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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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The possibility to have your packets passed through a shorter route compared to IPv4 packets is worth it imo. I have 280 ms ping to the US and I can cut it down to ~250ms by routing my traffic via certain countries with vpn. I really hope widespread IPv6 deployment would optimize global internet routing so my latency would improve even if just a few ms so I don't need to use VPN to override my route manually.
Maybe a silly question: any ideas why there are shorter routes using IPv6?
Thanks! Is there something about the larger area space which means there are fewer hops?
I suspect it's more like the workaround used by network operators to scale up IPv4 to serve billions of users necessitate more and more layer of nodes to route your packets through.