IP4 vs IP6

Just thought I’d share:

The “IP” stands for “Internet Protocol” which refers to the packet transfer procedure over an internet. Every device that connects to the internet uses a unique address called an IP address, which works very similar to a home/location address. Pieces of data, called “packets”, are transferred via the internet between machines.

In order for two machines, or devices to communicate via the internet, they must transfer these “packets” of data back and forth. Unfortunately the data “packets” cannot be transferred if the devices do not each have their own unique address.

IPv4 is the fourth, more supported version of the internet address procedure. It uses a 32-bit addressing hence allowing 2^32 4,294,967,296 unique addresses. But ultimately, there are no longer any free IPv4 addresses, meaning all of them have been occupied or taken up.

So basically the IPv4 protocol has run out of available addresses. IPv6 is the next in the advancement of IP’s compared to the IPv4 which allows for only 4,294,967,296 unique addresses, the Ipv6 that uses a 128-bit system will hold 340-undecillion (34, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000) this number is so vast that there are more unique IP addresses than stars in the universe, as we know it. However, the Ipv6 will not come out into full implementation stage world wide till at least 2025 in because they need time to fix the bugs in the protocol and upgrades to routers and the likes.

http://test-ipv6.com/

But you probably don’t care !!