I’m happy to report that oxcrag.net has been upgraded from a crappy ADSL line to a fibre based connection, which has improved uplink speed for the server tremendously.
Unfortunately, it looks as though newer technology doesn’t always imply that everything gets better: Unlike what the representative for the fibre project stated, there’s no sign of IPv6 on this network with my chosen provider, Bahnhof. Indeed a mail to their support was answered with the short statement that they do not currently have an agreement with Telia – the network owner – for IPv6 over the current service solution “Öppen Fiber”. If I would want to pay Telias exorbitant fees, I could probably keep using their IPv6rd tunnel, but I don’t see the point in haggling or ISP-hopping. On the other hand, IPv6 tunnel services from other service providers break geographically limited content like Netflix. What I think of that practice is probably subject to a rant by itself, but suffice to say Netflix thinks I’m a pirate when I use the Swedish gateway of Hurricane Electric’s IPv6 tunneling service.
Long story short, what’s called “Telia Öppen Fiber” in Sweden is only “open” in a very Orwellian sense, and so I’ve lost the convenience of IPv6 addressing for my machines – at least for the foreseeable future.
Closed is open. Worse is better. Old is new.