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AlecEdworthy
SMARTY Commentator
14-04-2023

IPv6

Hello, When I was on Three (switched this week) I got an IPv6 address when on mobile data on my iPhone 12.  Now I've switched to SMARTY I still appear to have an IPv6 address allocated to my device,...
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AlecEdworthy
SMARTY Commentator
15-04-2023

I think I was on a 5G tower one time I've checked but I'll make sure to check again later. Out of curiosity, what are you Chalkychap and WelshPaul using to determine whether or not your device's cellular data interface has been assigned an IPv6 address please? I'm using Hurricane Electric's Network Tools on my iPhone 12.

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Chalkychap
SMARTY Trendsetter
18-04-2023

Okay, nothing fancy just opened my web browser and entered the following URL: 

https://whatismyipaddress.com/

This usually reports the public IP address/es assigned by your ISP for your data connection. 

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    AlecEdworthy
    SMARTY Commentator
    18-04-2023

    If you use http://ip6.me/ then your client uses IPv4 or IPv6 as it prefers (obviously if the client doesn't have a functional IPv6 connection it will only try IPv4) and offers both IPv6-only (http://ip6only.me/) and IPv4-only (http://ip4.me/) tests too.