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AAISP and Sky are the only two ISPs to provide IPv6 in the UK. BT Consumer have been promising it "real soon now" for the last few years, and the rest of the ISPs are sitting on their hands.

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BT already has a limited IPv6 rollout in progress[1], but the hardwares a big limiting factor (the early hubs definitely cannot manage it).

[1] http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/08/sky-...

I was pleasantly surprised when I was given a global IPv6 address at my parents house (where they use Sky). I had no idea they'd already managed to do it, and was expecting them to drag their feet for as long as possible.

AFAIK, Sky has rolled out IPv6 to all staff now. Except, well, it's enabled at a cabinet level (AIUI) so everyone served by the same cabinet has IPv6 now.

Sky gave an interesting technical presentation to the UK IPv6 Council in June about the roll out[1]. There is another presentation scheduled for October if you want to know more[2].

1: http://www.ipv6.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/UK-IPv6-Co... 2: http://www.ipv6.org.uk/blog/

I got the nice surprise of getting an IPv6 block with BT recently, everything works as expected. They are finally rolling it out, it seems.

BT gave me an IPv6 address a few months ago - bit of treat for running non-ISP VDSL equipment, taking advantage of it early!

And Zen Internet

Yep Zen is great! That's where I got my /29 from. They also fix issues very quickly - when netalyzr complained that my ISP couldn't handle fragmented udp packets, I let them know and they fixed it within a few days.

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