We’re excited to announce that TinglyTube has recently become IPv6 enabled!
For those who don’t know what IPv6 is, IPv6 is the successor to IPv4, almost all IP addresses use IPv4 (a typical IPv4 address looks like 161.97.75.223 – whereas, a typical IPv6 address looks like 2a02:c207:2040:9691:0000:0000:0000:0001) however because IPv4 addresses can only store 32-bits, the pool of them will become depleted one day, which is why IPv6 was created in 1998 to eventually replace IPv4 one day as it can store 128-bits and provide more addresses to the ever-growing internet.
Statistics reported by Google show that over 32% of internet users are IPv6 enabled as of November 10, 2021.
Even though IPv6 has been around for many years, its adoption has still been slow (mainly because IPv4 addresses are still plenty because of their 'blocks' being purchased and resold), but some ISP’s (Internet Service Provider’s) provide IPv6 connections and many of the tech giants, such as Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. are IPv6 enabled which allow for a fast and seamless connection for IPv6 users.
But since most of the internet is still using IPv4, even if you have an IPv6 connection, your ISP uses something called NAT (Network Address Translation) this allows you to access websites that are using IPv4 even though you’re using IPv6, however, this process does add a few more milliseconds to the time it takes to load each page and its individual assets (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Images, etc.) as well as for your connection to look up that website’s IPv4 address and ‘translate’ it to one that you can access.
Milliseconds might not seem like a very big deal, but to us, it is, as we want to ensure that every TinglyTube user has a fast experience when they need ASMR the most.
If you’re not sure whether or not your internet connection is IPv6 enabled, you can go to this website to check.
There shouldn't be any issues experienced due to this ‘upgrade’, however, if you need any help at all or a question answered, as always, please don’t hesitate to let us know via our Support/Feedback form.
