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Slashdot: IPv6 Adoption Hits 32%. Will Stats Show How Many Returned to the Office?

IPv6 Adoption Hits 32%. Will Stats Show How Many Returned to the Office?
Published on May 30, 2020 at 11:04PM
Long-time Slashdot reader Tim the Gecko writes: Google's IPv6 connectivity stats topped 32% last Saturday for the first time. But the main story has been the midweek stats. Most mobile phone networks and a good chunk of residential broadband have migrated to IPv6, but the typical corporate network where people used to spend their 9 to 5 is largely IPv4-only. There used to be a big dip in the IPv6 stats during the working week, but widespread working from home has halved that dip, with the typical midweek IPv6 connectivity for Google queries moving upwards from 26% to 29%. Looking at this graph will be a good way of checking how fast people are returning to the office.

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