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    From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to All on Tue Jul 29 10:49:48 2025
    Hello All,

    (Semi)public Wifi netwrols in this part of the world are still IPv4 only with very few exceptions. I am talking about WiFi networks in shops, hotels, campings etc. Over the past two years I have only come across two that offer IPv6. These are camping Boszicht in Laag Soeren NL and the HF Witte Centre in de Bilt, NL. In the latter the WiFi is maintained by HCC, the largest Dutch Computer Club, so no mystery.

    How is this in other parts of the world? Are they nearly all IPv4 only or has IPv6 found its way into (semi) public WiFi networks there?


    Cheers, Michiel

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  • From Tommi Koivula@2:221/360.8110 to Michiel van der Vlist on Tue Jul 29 19:47:16 2025
    On 29 Jul 2025 10:49 Michiel van der Vlist wrote to All :

    Hello All,

    (Semi)public Wifi netwrols in this part of the world are still IPv4 only with very few exceptions. I am talking about WiFi networks in shops, hotels, campings etc. Over the past two years I have only come across two that offer IPv6. These are camping Boszicht in Laag Soeren NL and the HF Witte Centre in de Bilt, NL. In the latter the WiFi is maintained by HCC, the largest Dutch Computer Club, so no mystery.

    How is this in other parts of the world? Are they nearly all IPv4 only or has IPv6 found its way into (semi) public WiFi networks there?

    Normally I dont use public wifis anymore. I have unlimited 5G data in my phone in Finland, Skandinavia and the baltics as well as enough quota in the EU.

    But as I am currently in Kemij„rvi Camping, I connected to the wifi here, and I got only ipv4 adress.

    Tommi

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  • From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to Tommi Koivula on Tue Jul 29 22:27:10 2025
    Hello Tommi,

    On Tuesday July 29 2025 19:47, you wrote to me:

    But as I am currently in Kemij„rvi Camping, I connected to the wifi
    here, and I got only ipv4 adress.

    As expected... Tnx.


    Cheers, Michiel

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303
    * Origin: he.net certified sage (2:280/5555)
  • From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to Tommi Koivula on Wed Jul 30 14:14:18 2025
    Hello Tommi,

    Tuesday July 29 2025 22:27, I wrote to you:

    But as I am currently in Kemij„rvi Camping, I connected to the
    wifi here, and I got only ipv4 adress.

    As expected... Tnx.

    As a side note: My coax provider (Ziggo) had a service called "WiFi hotspots" that allowed customers to use the WiFi network of other customers. To gain access to that network one had to enable the service in one's own modem/rouer so that others could make use of it. I found it usefull.

    But.. that "guest network" was IPv4 only. They had plans to add IPv6 but it never came to that. The system was switched of first of July. The use had dropped, mainly because of the rise of inlimited access to G/5G networks. The benefits of maintaining the WiFi hotspots no longer outweighed the cost and effort and so it was discontinued they say.

    One way to get rid of IPv4...


    Cheers, Michiel

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303
    * Origin: he.net certified sage (2:280/5555)