A deep dive into the new(ish) IP

After many, many years IPv6 is starting to become mainstream. The protocol first entered draft form way back in 1998, but up until recently we’ve all been able to get by with good old IPv4. The big changes started to happen in the last year, with the lack of available IPv4 addresses finally forcing mobile providers to switch over to IPv6. Telstra has already made the complete switch – when you connect to the Telstra mobile network, you are usually no longer assigned an IPv4 address and only get an IPv6 address.

Now you may be wondering what that means in practice. From a user standpoint, not a great deal. You still access the internet the exact same way. You can even still talk to IPv4