HamIsland is an official participant in World IPv6 Launch Day...

[W4GPL]

For many months, HamIsland has been accessible via IPv6 using our main hostname. We will officially be staying this way as of June 6th.

http://www.worldipv6launch.org/

Check out the other participants and support them while the Internet takes a major step forward.

[PA5COR]

Whoopeeee!! ;)

[NA4BH]

I have absolutely no idea what this is, but let's have a party.

[W4GPL]

A party sounds fun!

Basically, most of the Internet right now uses IPv4 addresses -- your home Internet connection, this website, everything. There is a limited # of these addresses, in fact, in most regions of the world all the IPv4 addresses available have already been assigned to providers. Soon there will be no more addresses available, though I admit that's a bit of an alarmist thing to say -- a lot of these addresses are simply inactive. IPv6 is a new addressing scheme that also comes with some new features, but most importantly the # of addresses available is virtually unlimited.

I know some HamIsland nerds might want to add their own technical details to my description, but this is a high level overview.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6

[NQ6U]

I hope my oldish router can deal with the changeover. I'd rather not have to replace it right now.

[KG4CGC]

Everything is so bright, and sparkly!

[W4GPL]

I hope my oldish router can deal with the changeover. I'd rather not have to replace it right now.No hurry, I should have been more clear. Everything will work fine with the old IPv4.. most everyone will be running 'dual stack' (IPv4 & IPv6 at the same time) for the very foreseeable future.. forever, maybe.