{"id":58,"date":"2008-01-06T23:18:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T23:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2008\/01\/06\/ipv6-connectivity-changing-brokers\/"},"modified":"2010-11-11T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T13:01:43","slug":"ipv6-connectivity-changing-brokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2008\/01\/06\/ipv6-connectivity-changing-brokers\/","title":{"rendered":"IPv6 connectivity – changing brokers"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been nearly 2 years since I intially set up my IPv6 connectivity<\/a>, and back then I had some problems<\/a> with the BT Exact IPv6 tunnel broker. Now it seems that without much notice the service has been taken down permanently, so I’ve just spent quite a few hours moving over to a new provider – SixXS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My initial impression of SixXS is that it’s much more polished than the BT service was. They have many PoPs (although a tunnel is only associated with one nearby PoP), a decent website, and all the facilities that I need. They work on a credit based system which means to use a facility you need credits. You get some credits when you set up an account, and you gain more by running a reliable tunnel. It’s an interesting idea… it encourages you to look after your setup.<\/p>\n

Handily I got some bonus credits for my work on some Open Source projects, so I got both my home network and my colo server setup in one go. The\u00c2\u00a0process was as good as identical to the BT service, so there were no real problems – just the tediousness of updating configs, DNS entries and firewalls.<\/p>\n

So there we have it – SixXS++ \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been nearly 2 years since I intially set up my IPv6 connectivity, and back then I had some problems with the BT Exact IPv6 tunnel broker. Now it seems that without much notice the service has been taken down permanently, so I’ve just spent quite a few hours moving over to a new provider – SixXS. My initial impression …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t