Re: Frontier IPv6 Prefix Delegation - AS5650
Chris Riling via NANOG <[email protected]>
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You happen to know anything about this? https://business.frontier.com/home-office-pro Would it get me a /56 and real SLA / tech support when needed? Happy to convert if so. Sorry for bombarding you with questions- it’s hard to find people with a clue there 😊 Chris On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 1:04 PM Chris Riling <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I am getting a DHCPv6-PD, it's just a single /64, which is better > than nothing, but not great. I told support I'd be willing to pay, and it > sounds like it's something they don't, and aren't planning to offer. > > I might even go to their business "home office pro" offering if I knew for > sure it would get me a /56 and an SLA and real human on the line when I > have an issue. - https://business.frontier.com/home-office-pro - but I > haven't tried poking that bear yet, not even sure anyone would be able to > answer the question. > > Chris > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 12:56 PM Gary Buhrmaster via NANOG < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM Chris Riling via NANOG >> <[email protected]> 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). >> _______________________________________________ >> NANOG mailing list >> >> https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MCN7MZVHWOFVAOOI4S52ZCMUVJDG3QN6/ > > _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FCNFSZWBQT2THP6E4F4POKI4X7N7AM5A/