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https://tunnelbroker.net/ will give you a free IPv6 subnet and you can route it over your existing IPv4 link. I think you can get either a /64 or /48.

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I had a tunnel with them I was using for a while, but ended up turning it off a couple of months ago.

Any request to a CDN will be slower since you’re not hitting the cache closest to your actual ISP, and since it’s “a VPN” a lot of things start to break, need more captchas, or get blocked for you since there’s a higher level of abuse from HE’s tunnel broker IP blocks.

Oh wow, I didn’t know they were still around! I used that to get an IPv6 address more than a decade ago; I think they used the bastardized IPv4-mapped-to-v6 address format at the time. But iirc it involved extra network hops because it was tunneled rather than routed, but maybe I’m misremembering.

I’m guessing they have larger blocks for sale?

Sorry to mislead--you're correct, it is a tunnel.

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