It's 2025 and Hathway has no interest in deploying IPv6

ankurpandeyvns

ankurpandeyvns

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Jio Fiber (150 Mbps)
Hathway (450 Mbps)
It’s honestly baffling at this point.

We’re halfway through the decade, the world is moving on with IPv6 adoption, and yet Hathway seems to be living in some kind of pre-2010 limbo where IPv4 is still enough. Spoiler alert: it’s not.

Every serious ISP in its right mind has at least begun to switch over. Jio, Tata Play Fiber and Airtel have native IPv6 out of the box. And even BSNL (yes, the once-maligned BSNL!) has improved IPv6 availability in some areas. And what about Hathway? Absolutely nothing. No plan. No explanation. No native integration. Zilch.

Is there any kind of technical constraint that's keeping them from doing so? Or are they simply too comfortable because there is no market pressure from the typical consumer? Either way, it's a terrible impression.

I'd love to get some feedback from others—are you noticing any IPv6 activity on Hathway in your area? Or is this a nationwide dry spell?
 
Airtel Delhi is still only ipv4.
Hathway is basically jio but they used to operate with LCO partnership so those legacy configs could be causing issues or it requires extra effort without any incentive 🤷‍♂️
it could be also area wise deployment.
 
IPv6 is not a necessity. This change over costs money since it may require equipment updates or replacements. They will do it in stages.

There are more sites on v4 than v6 as of now infact adopting v6 has its own set of challenges. Tata Play has been public v6 with a CGNAT v4 from day 1. Airtel has followed suit as the Govt mandated a change over as have other major ISPs.

BSNL implemented v6 but recently stopped delegation to LAN devices. So other than the WAN connection, no device gets a v6 address.
 
@ChipHey Chip! IPv4 is mostly handled by the CGNAT. For a country like India with limited IPv4 allocation, unlike the US, it’s a bit tougher for techies like us to host sites unless we use Cloudflare tunnels. IPv6, on the other hand, offers end-to-end connectivity without any NAT overhead. If implemented correctly, it’s even reduced latency in many scenarios.
 
@ankurpandeyvns I am a techie too bro..and if you want to host a site or you have requirements that necessitate direct access, go in for a public/static IP v4. The v6 is a dynamic IP unless you specifically ask for a static v6 like I did with Tata Play.

Check if Hathaway/Jio has static IPv4/v6 option available for home users. Otherwise the only option is to choose an ISP that does offer static and the one that I know of is Airtel with v4 and TPF with v6.
 
Jio doesn't have that option. Hathway has, but with added cost of 199+GST every month. I have Jio with pfsense and with ipv6 on wan I've hosted my home server websites. Hathway is a bit better since it allocated dynamic public ipv4. I was able to enable bridge mode on their router and it had enabled my udm se to get public ip. And unifi one click VPN etc just works.
 
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