> [IPv6] only exists in datacenters
My experience is different: Comcast has been doling out IPv6 addresses for at least a decade, at least in San Francisco.
My T-Mobile phone gets IPv6 addresses.
My work and my swim club also have IPv6. It's pretty awesome.
It was "fun" discovering this the hard way a number of years ago when active US Android user count for a game we were supporting dropped 15% essentially overnight. The TCP stack in the client only did IPv4.
The challenge, ironically, was convincing management that adding IPv6 was the thing worth trying. After almost a week of getting nowhere (and almost 2 weeks of outage), I forced the issue by saying "Look, I'm doing this. I need one engineer for 2 days. If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work."
He got the change implemented in 2 hours. QA OKed it the next day. The topic never came up again.
AT&T also supports IPv6 although with comical prefix lengths. https://ssg.dev/ipv6-for-the-remotely-interested-af214dd06aa...
Huh? I have ATT fiber and have a /56.
Edit: n/m I guess I confused PD with having a larger subnet. :(
I have AT&T Fiber and it's been /64 since forever. I even called tech support who confirmed that they only provide /64 prefix length to home customers. How come did you manage to get a /56?
AT&T for years as well. Most of the lag is non-carrier businesses that don’t want to invest in profitless infrastructure changes.