<story><title>Roku devices don&apos;t support IPv6 in 2023 and it&apos;s costing ISPs</title><url>https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/It-s-2022-and-still-no-IPv6/m-p/854673/highlight/true#M35732</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hitpointdrew</author><text>Who the hell is giving their Roku a public IP? How is this remotely a problem? This is 100% not the fault of Roku, and 100% the fault of the ISP. The ISP should have an IPv6 to IPv4 gateway built into their modem&amp;#x2F;router. You have a WAN port that is IPv6 and an LAN port that IPv4.&lt;p&gt;IPv6 for local networks, makes no sense is completely unnecessary, and is a hill I will die on. IPv4 is here to stay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ArchOversight</author><text>The ISP said they got only a limited set of IPv4 addresses, those are assigned to their CGNAT gateways. Which are expensive, especially for an Indian Reservation, not the deep pockets of some MSP.&lt;p&gt;The users are behind CG-NAT.&lt;p&gt;But instead of using IPv6 which is cheaper (no need to maintain CG-NAT, translation devices, or deal with traffic that is being routed way more expensively) the Roku devices are only streaming over IPv4.&lt;p&gt;Each new user that adds an IPv4 only device adds additional load the CG-NAT and additional capacity will need to be provisioned. That is an additional expense and burden.&lt;p&gt;Most of my traffic at my house (on Comcast) is over IPv6, because most if not all streaming services now support IPv6 for content delivery, so the small amount of data that may need to go over IPv4 when the majority can go over IPv6 reduces the load on IPv4.</text></comment>
<story><title>Roku devices don&apos;t support IPv6 in 2023 and it&apos;s costing ISPs</title><url>https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/It-s-2022-and-still-no-IPv6/m-p/854673/highlight/true#M35732</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hitpointdrew</author><text>Who the hell is giving their Roku a public IP? How is this remotely a problem? This is 100% not the fault of Roku, and 100% the fault of the ISP. The ISP should have an IPv6 to IPv4 gateway built into their modem&amp;#x2F;router. You have a WAN port that is IPv6 and an LAN port that IPv4.&lt;p&gt;IPv6 for local networks, makes no sense is completely unnecessary, and is a hill I will die on. IPv4 is here to stay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonsaibilly</author><text>Congratulations on completely failing to understand how CGNAT loads work &amp;amp; their costs, and jumping to a wildly incorrect understanding of the situation</text></comment>