COX vs. Metronet
What are the benefits of staying with COX when Metronet offers 1 Gig at $60/mo.?
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That is another difference. Cox is IPv6 ready while Metronet is not and from their tone online it seems they don't have any immediate plans to upgrade.
Upgrading to support both IPv4 and IPv6, is both a LOT of work, and not cheap when it comes to equipment upgrades, and Software upgrades, not to mention the training of the people to be able to provide proper support when there are issues. It's certainly not an overnight thing.
To be honest though, IPv6 has been in the works for a long time now. It was developed in 1998 and standardized in 2017.
RFC1752 was actually published in January of 1995 back when the idea was referred to as IPng or Internet Protocol Next Generation.
Just going by Wiki. Thanks for the insight.
And many larger companies STILL don't have IPv6 support. Cox supports customers in about 18 states, with about 6.5 million residential and commercial customers. To put that in perspective, in 2020 about 120 million households in the U.S. had broadband internet.
And many larger companies STILL don't have IPv6 support.
Can you name a large ISP that doesn't have it? ATT, Cox, Comcast, Spectrum and Verizon all offer it and that covers a lot if not most of that 120 million sum. Verizon(FIOS) was one of the few hold outs and didn't start offering it until early this year and is still not offered in ALL areas AFAIK.
