The question above for the most part, been reading up on it. Also want to it for learning purposes.
The possibility to have your packets passed through a shorter route compared to IPv4 packets is worth it imo. I have 280 ms ping to the US and I can cut it down to ~250ms by routing my traffic via certain countries with vpn. I really hope widespread IPv6 deployment would optimize global internet routing so my latency would improve even if just a few ms so I don’t need to use VPN to override my route manually.
Maybe a silly question: any ideas why there are shorter routes using IPv6?
- Fewer hops usually required when using IPv6, which means shorter latency.
- Simplified header means less processing time needed to process IPv6 packets, which might improve latency on each hop.
- It also supports multicast, but I’m not sure if it can be used to improve routing and latency.
Thanks! Is there something about the larger area space which means there are fewer hops?
I suspect it’s more like the workaround used by network operators to scale up IPv4 to serve billions of users necessitate more and more layer of nodes to route your packets through.
