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It's actually not too contrarian - The problem isn't the average speed or what happens when things are working, it's what happens when it fails or when things need servicing. Packet loss and latency or slow response times for servicing of the routes affected our customers greatly. Far more than a small bandwidth improvement would buy us on a service that isn't bandwidth constrained at all.

In large part, this just boils down to the fact that less people use it, so less people notice problems and they're addressed less quickly. However, it makes it very unusable for applications like VOIP to customers when there are issues occurring. So while the bandwidth may be better on IPv6, I have no experience with that side of things personally, we're far more concerned with link stability - packet loss, latency spikes, that kind of thing. Again, just anecdotal, but not necessarily contrarian either.




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