Glad to hear people are successfully using my IPv6 guide for Maxis. Maxis seems to have increased their bandwidth to Singapore very recently so IPv6 speeds have greatly improved. The end point of the tunnel is located in Singapore and HE has direct peering with Maxis it seems.

Interested to hear feedback and ways to improve the IPv6 guide to make it easier and more successful to follow.

As for why Maxis doesn't provide native IPv6? I think it's a matter of cost. Very few end users are requesting it while it would be expensive to reconfigure and test all of Maxis's routers and firewalls. But since the IPv4 address range has been fully allocated, it is only a matter of time before IPS's like Maxis with provide native IPv6 addresses. Double NATing is not a good long term solution.

An easy way to tell if a website is IPv6 enabled is with this chrome plugin:

Github page for IPYFOO

Plugin for Chrome can be installed here:

Chrome Store IPYFOO plugin

There's a similar plugin for Firefox here:

Firefox IPYFOO plugin

Single stack IPv6 isn't a very good idea presently. Most devices won't function correctly with only a IPv6 adress, such as Andriod devices. Also means without a IPv6 to IPv4 NAT64 gateway, because most of the internet is single stack IPv4 only, will be unreachable on a single stack IPv6 device.

Is tunnelled IPv6 faster than Ipv4? Generally no, but with a few exceptions.

Tunnelling IPv6 means that all your IPv6 packs are put inside your IPv4 packets and sent to the end point tunnel, in this case Singapore. The packets are then sent to the destination that you are trying to reach. If, for example, you were trying to reach a site in Malaysia and you are also in Malaysia, the traffic would be sent all the way to Singapore and back before getting to where you want to reach.

Because of the way tunnelling works, this means the largest packet you can send via IPv6 is 1200 bytes, where as the largest native IPv4 packet you can send is 1500 (generally). This means more packets need to be sent to send the same amount of information. This is not the case with native IPv6, that Maxis does not presently offer.

But it gets worse than this.

ISP's cache content on their networks that is popular. Youtube videos, for example, are cached within the Maxis network. This means popular videos don't have to be sent over the internet as they already are on Maxis's Google caching servers. Because both Youtube and Google are fully IPv6 enabled, if you access a Youtube video on a computer that is IPv6 enabled, the IPv6 address will be first used to reach Google.

This means your Youtube videos will be downloaded from Singapore instead of the Maxis's Google caching server, which makes Youtube a bit slower. But generally it isn't noticeable and is fast enough over Maxis Fiber broadband.

Ipv6 tunnelling can in some cases be faster than native IPv4. If the tunnel broker has better paths to content than Maxis, data may be faster. Maxis does have some poor paths to content and sends a lot of data via Hong Kong because I presume it is cheaper for Maxis than sending it via Singapore.

If you are using the Singapore HE Tunnel broker address, then enter as is all the instructions except the parts with xxxx. You only need to change the parts that have "xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx" to the IPv6 block your tunnel broker provides. Have made that clearer in the instructions, thank you pointing that out.

This post has been edited by znarl: Mar 1 2016, 04:41 PM

Good question. I just added:

"If at any point something goes wrong, simply turn off and on again your Maxis router and the changes will be removed, until you do the :saveall instruction at the end."

In addition, if for whatever reason, IPv6 stops working, all operating systems I've used fall back to using IPv4 instead until it starts working again without notifying the end user.

Have also added the suggestion of adding a backup before starting so the change can be reverted.

Finally, if everything goes really wrong, can always do a factory reset on the Maxis router and set it up again.

Hi, I have added a screen shot of telneting in. Does it match what you are seeing?

It may also be because the user you are accessing the router with does not have permission to make these modifications. If you PM me a screenshot I think I can work out what is going wrong.

Hello there,

Yes, I am sorry about that. I left Malaysia for the UK in July and the website was being hosted on my PC at home on my Maxis connection. Just something fun to do and another way to amuse Maxis staff.

But I've put the website back online now as it seems helpful to some Maxis users. Link works fine.

Nice, far better solution than tunneling. Looks like your IPv6 is indeed a valid Maxis IPv6 address