IPv6 for existing customers - Not allowed

[geekl33tgamer]

I saw over a year ago that Vodafone started giving native IPv6 to new customers. I'd forgot about it until today, when the need to use IPv6 natively arose.

I've been a Gigafast customer since 2019 so very much an existing customer. I was told after much run around by Broadband Support that the answer is firmly: N0, you can't have it.

New customers only (still?) and they said it also has to be Cityfibre connected (mine is). Anyone else had any luck here getting an existing account enabled for it?

[Ripshod]

They've told you a little bit of nonsense.

True, they can't manually activate IPv6 on anyone's account, but it's gradually being rolled out to everyone including openreach provided customers.

You'll just have to wait like everyone else.

Why the need for IPv6? 

[geekl33tgamer]

One of my customers has dedicated servers with IPv6 addresses I remotely access. Using a 6To4 tunnel, but it made me look into Vodafone's native implementation that, after a year, seems it's still a mess/non-existent then?

[Ripshod]

Like I said, it's being rolled out. I got mine a while ago now. One point - the vodafone router must be connected for IPv6 to be provisioned. Once it is you can use whatever router you want. 

[geekl33tgamer]

Hold on, I have to use their router first to get it? I long ago ditched that thing in favour of my TP-Link AX6600...

[Ripshod]

It's true. I run my own asus router and went years without IPv6. I reconnected the vf router (thg3000) to test something else and I saw IPv6 come to life. Back to the asus and native IPv6 was activated. Up to that point I was using tunnelbroker. 

[geekl33tgamer]

Seriously not? The Vodafone hub is the same one as you have from when they first started rolling out FTTH. If I have to use it, finding it will be a challenge as it's close to 6 years old at this point and not been used for 4 of those years!

[Ripshod]

Mine's close to 4 years old now. Great doorstop but I do blow the dust off it now and again to play with it.

It might be worthwhile going double NAT for 24 hrs, see what happens. 

I see from your forum name you're a gamer, I'm sure an extra mS ping won't hurt for a day (maybe less) 

[geekl33tgamer]

Yes, gamer! You missed that the TP Link router is the Archer GX90 - Also gaming!

The extra ping will be fine, but so typical of this provider to keep forcing you back to their equipment rather than just giving you the settings. Unrelated rant, but it's always bug me the same is true of the VOIP connection they categorically refuse to provide settings for (again, TP-Link's router supports that too).

[Ripshod]

Yeah, the sip issue. They often cite "security" as the reason for not giving out the details now.

You'll find, even with the correct sip details you won't be able to connect that router to vf's digital voice. Took us ages to crack it but we could only get it working with specific grandstream devices, and recently a few cisco. The Tp-link router's don't expose the essential settings that vodafone have tweaked.