Yep, I saw that. I’d imagine that IPv6 would be a major benefit for software that does lots of NAT traversal, like online games.
I moved to Andrews & Arnold for my ADSL last week, partially motivated by the desire to get native IPv6 before this launch day, but mostly because I was fed up with juddering video streaming at peak times on BE. It has improved matters significantly.
The streaming problem on Be is apparently down to iPlayer! (The extra traffic via Akamai was enough to choke up Be's Akamai link; they're working on upgrading it, but for some reason it's taking a long time.)
NAT traversal is really only an issue when both ends are NATted; most games would be communicating with a central server, which avoids that problem entirely. Pure peer to peer setups like Skype and BitTorrent will benefit, although with most routers supporting UPnP these days that's a fairly minor problem - any peer to peer application can open a listening socket for the outside world quite easily anyway.
Behind an elderly (pre-UPnP) router or a jackbooted firewall it's a problem (Dundee University blocks inbound connections, not because of NAT but plain old firewall rules) but neither of those will be changed by IPv6 any time soon anyway.
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One of their senior people has been testing out their IPv6 connectivity by playing WOW over it today:
http://revk.www.me.uk/2012/06/wow-ipv6.html
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I moved to Andrews & Arnold for my ADSL last week, partially motivated by the desire to get native IPv6 before this launch day, but mostly because I was fed up with juddering video streaming at peak times on BE. It has improved matters significantly.
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NAT traversal is really only an issue when both ends are NATted; most games would be communicating with a central server, which avoids that problem entirely. Pure peer to peer setups like Skype and BitTorrent will benefit, although with most routers supporting UPnP these days that's a fairly minor problem - any peer to peer application can open a listening socket for the outside world quite easily anyway.
Behind an elderly (pre-UPnP) router or a jackbooted firewall it's a problem (Dundee University blocks inbound connections, not because of NAT but plain old firewall rules) but neither of those will be changed by IPv6 any time soon anyway.