topic Re: "New EE" FTTP IPv6 in Broadband & Landline

"New EE" FTTP IPv6

-Fred- — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:50:48 GMT

If one was to move from BT FTTP to EE FTTP does the "New EE" now support IPv6 on FTTP connections?

As I know historically it didn't but wondered if this has changed with BT residential becoming more intertwined with EE.

I'm guessing yes but would be weird if not as they're advertising "We recommend moving to new EE because you’ll benefit from even better connectivity in and out of the home." Losing IPv6 would simply be a downgrade.

Best Regards,

Re: "New EE" FTTP IPv6

Mustrum — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 22:08:34 GMT

@-Fred- that is a good question - as far as I know it was not available before the recent re-launch.

Maybe someone knows.

Re: "New EE" FTTP IPv6

Profile closed — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 22:43:17 GMT

@-Fred- New EE Broadband is based on BT Broadband not old EE broadband so yes it does support IPV6.

Re: "New EE" FTTP IPv6

-Fred- — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 23:10:58 GMT

Excellent news, thank you 🙂

Re: "New EE" FTTP IPv6

Mecha-Medic — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 22:58:55 GMT

I enabled IPv6 on my Asus router and visited test-ipv6.com. It states, and I quote; "Any address starting with "::", "fc", "fd", or "fe" is unable to work with the public IPv6 Internet." As you can see in the screen capture, I got a positive result for the IPv4 connection and a negative result for IPv6, from an IPv6 testing website.

You can see from the screenshots for yourself that my IPv6 starts with "fe". I live just outside a small town on the east coast of England, where we have FTTC. I hope this offers some insight into the availability of IPv6 for consumers. I've read that it's different for business clients.

Re: "New EE" FTTP IPv6

-Fred- — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 23:02:51 GMT

All fully functional on my Ubiquiti UDM-SE. Am getting 10/10 on the IPv6 testing websites. FTTP 900.

Re: "New EE" FTTP IPv6

Mecha-Medic — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 23:31:34 GMT

According to information from EE technical support, IPv6 is fully available on all of their broadband services and has been for some time . However, it's worth noting that there are some discussions on the EE Community forums mentioning that EE's fiber home broadband may not currently support IPv6 . Nonetheless, IPv6 is supported over EE's 4G network.

However, it's worth noting from my previous post with screen captures that I'm not able to use IPv6 on my EE's fiber home broadband service. So it looks like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

Come on, EE, put this argument to bed once and for all.

Re: "New EE" FTTP IPv6

bobpullen — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:05:04 GMT

@Mecha-Medic - as I understand it, newly provisioned EE broadband lines carry full native IPv6 support. I think longer-established circuits may be dependent on slightly different network architecture that does not.

I have a recently installed EE Full Fibre line and IPv6 is supported/working.

Re: "New EE" FTTP IPv6

Brugie58 — Sat, 18 May 2024 13:50:30 GMT

I know this thread is on the old side, but IPV6 is defiantly available on the EE/BT Network

On a Draytek router just set the connection type to PPP in the IPV6 section and away you go

It will be different on other routers