According to this reddit thread, IPv6 at Ziply is getting closer:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ZiplyFiber/comments/17486n5/yeah_i_know_but_gonna_ask_anyway_ipv6_update/ On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 12:53 AM Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 12:17 AM Ron Braithwaite <r...@braithwaites.net> > wrote: > >> I have Ziply and am exceptionally happy with them. >> >> When we bought this house and switched from Frontier to Ziply, we >> discovered that Frontier had *LITERALLY* run the fiver ON TOP OF THE >> GROUND >> from the street to our house when the neighbor cut our fiber connection >> with a weed whacker. > > > Although management changed, Ziply *IS* Frontier, or what Frontier was. > Frontier sold off some of its markets several years ago, and Ziply was the > buyer, and investment group in the Seattle area from what I recall. So, you > didn't switch from Frontier to Ziply so much as Frontier became Ziply. > "Switching" implies it was your choice, and as much as I wish we had more > choices, we generally don't. > > >> We discovered this in the morning, a few hours later, >> someone from Ziply came and checked out the situation. The next day, Ziply >> was here with a horizontal boring machine and strung new fiber underground >> in plastic conduit and we were back in the air in less than 48 hours. I >> like them a whole bunch and I don't mind spending $60/mo for reliable >> gigabit. >> > > Laying service drops on the ground is regrettably not uncommon. Jason > Bergstrom had a similar service drop installation from Comcast. I heard a > story from someone (an internet access activist) on the east coast whose > cable internet service would go down every time the landscapers mowed her > lawn. Instead of installing it properly, they just laid a new coax ... back > on the ground! > > My mom has Ziply now, and it has worked well. I just today sent back their > router, which we needed for her landline phone, after we ported the number > over to Ooma. She has 50/50Mbps service for $40/month, which is completely > adequate for what she does. Ziply internet was just $20/month for the first > year. The landline was costing us $30-something, and about to go up due to > an increase in the router lease fee. Ooma is a little over $10/month. I > don't recall how stable her IP address is. As a low bound, it hasn't > changed in the last week. It might change on reboots. > > One thing missing from Ziply as recently as last spring when I last > inquired is any IPv6 provisioning. You can get free IPv6 tunnels (or used > to be able to) from places like Hurricane Electric's tunnelbroker, and > perhaps others, although they can bottleneck your connections. Comcast > provisions IPv6 routinely, your gateway device just has to ask for it and > boom, you have a /56 (or something similar) provisioned to allocate to your > internal networks as you wish. > > -- > Russell Senior > russ...@personaltelco.net > >
