I used to be a Bell DSL customer 3 years ago, but the service was unreliable due to my home telephone copper lines. Moved to Rogers and in the past few months, service is horrible in the evenings, to the point that I don't have internet access at all. I heard this is common with Rogers in downtown Toronto.
Is there anyone who has moved from Rogers cable internet to Bell Fibe with similar problems as mine? Cost is not an issue for me as long as I have reliable internet service. Anyone who has also moved to Bell Five TV from Rogers? How is it.
Any comments - good or bad - are greatly appreciated.
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DNS works equally well over IPv4 or IPv6. I expect your ISP's DNS server is IPv4 only. I use Google's DNS servers at 2001:4860:4860::8888 & 2001:4860:4860::8844, with 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 for backup.
I use Googles IPV6. DNS as well and use Rogers as secondary.
If your ISP provides IPV6 and you are using Windows 7 up then Windows 'prefers' IPV6 and will use it if the DNS provides both records. All the Google sites are V6 now as is Facebook and Wikipedia. DHC is still V4 only....the excuse usually is that the forum software doesn't support V6.
Out of the box, believe it or not, the developers of vBulletin do not seem to have any idea about IPv6 or the fact that we are using it already all over the world
This says it all. As I mentioned, there are a lot of IT people who haven't a clue about IPv6 and some are even hostile to it. In my book, that makes them incompetent, as IPv6 is coming and the longer they procrastinate, the harder it will be for them. I was doing work at one customer, a few weeks ago, where Rogers was providing IPv6. Their IT guy blocked it (he also did something that interfered with my work, but that's another matter). Given that IPv6 is the future and many ISPs are providing it, not learning to work with IPv6 is sticking their heads in the sand. I'm on Rogers and have IPv6 from them on both my cable modem and smart phone. And, for 6 years before Rogers provided IPv6 on the cable modem, I had it at home via 6in4 tunnel. In some ways, this reminds me of the problems some software had when going from 16 to 32 bits, 20 years ago. The developers had created an inflexible solution that blocked easy update to the newer processors.
BTW, anyone who's a current Cisco CCNA should be familiar with IPv6 as they can't pass the test without it and it's been on the test for a few years.
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