Wednesday, June 1, 2016

IPv6 traffic is the majority of my Internet traffic


Interesting: IPv6 traffic is the majority of my Internet traffic at home: 54%. And IPv4 is the minority.

Calculation (thanks to the MRTG monitoring of my router):

  • IPv6 traffic has an average of 366.0 kb/s
  • Total IPv4+IPv6 traffic has an average of 676.4 kb/s

So divide those numbers IPv6 by total traffic: 366/676 = 54% IPv6 traffic.

The explanation is quite easy: the well-known high-traffic sites (youtube, google, facebook) are IPv6-enabled.

PS: If "an average 676.4 kb/s" sounds low: that's almost 7GB per day. Rule of thumb: 100 kbps average is 1GB per day.

MRTG overview of my traffic: Green is total traffic, Blue is IPv6. Note there are only two IPv4-spikes.


Youtube: IPv6-only:







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