Slow downloads in Linux? IPv6 may be to blame
Internet Protocol Version 6 (or IPv6 for short) promises to solve the problem of dwindling IP address. Long story short, we’re running out of the roughly 4 billion addresses available to us under the current scheme (IPv4), so it’s time for an upgrade. IPv6, in addition to providing several security and efficiency enhancements, provides on the order of 340 “undecillion” addresses (that’s a lot, by the way). Sounds great, and it will be once we’re all connecting to networks and hardware that make use of IPv6.
However, in Ed Tech, this probably won’t apply to most of us for some time (new routers and managed switches certainly aren’t in my budget). IPv6 rollout in the rest of the world can go on quite happily without affecting us, unless you, like me, have been dabbling in Linux. Linux, forward-thinking and super great set of operating systems that it is, generally supports IPv6 by default. As a result, when it’s connected to an IPv4 network (like most of ours at home and school), it spends a fair amount of time resolving addresses. What this looks like to the end user is very slow page loads in a web browser, a surefire way to turn new users off and send them fleeing back to IE and Windows.
Fortunately, there is a quick fix for this problem.
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