Re: Frontier IPv6 Prefix Delegation - AS5650

[Tom Beecher via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

> Comcast does offer a /60 for their residential
> customers, but if you want a /56 (or more), it is
> business class service, and Charter (branded as
> Spectrum) only seems to offer residential
> customers a /64 (I have not tried, but I presume
> Charter will offer more for business class).


Charter gives out a /56 via PD on normal residential service. It's possible
that /64 is their default, but sending a /56 prefix hint works just fine.
Has for years.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 12:56 PM Gary Buhrmaster via NANOG <
nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM Chris Riling via NANOG
> <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> > Any way to get a /56 or more? Support is clueless.
>
> Probably not unless you move to business service.
> Although it does not hurt (well, your wasted time)
> to try to convince them to change.
>
> For residential, it seems most ISPs believe RFC6177
> is more of an idea than a firm suggestion[0], and if you
> want a /56, you need to upgrade to being what they
> consider a business site, and, of course, pay more.
>
> Comcast does offer a /60 for their residential
> customers, but if you want a /56 (or more), it is
> business class service, and Charter (branded as
> Spectrum) only seems to offer residential
> customers a /64 (I have not tried, but I presume
> Charter will offer more for business class).
>
> There is almost certainly no underlying technical reason
> that Frontier could not offer DHCPv6-PD delegations
> (of some size) to consumer class service should
> they have decided to do so.
>
>
>
>
> [0] There have been previous comments (rants?)
> on the subject towards ISP's consumer IPv6
> service before (including, of course, towards the
> ISPs that are still not offering any IPv6 connectivity).
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