why is IPv6 not so widespread? also what makes IPv6 great?

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why is IPv6 not so widespread? also what makes IPv6 great?

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I’m not sure of the details, but IPv4 only has a certain number of available numbers that can be assigned out, whereas IP v6 has more.

The issue is probably that older hardware literally cannot compute those extra numbers, kinda like Y2K fears about the date having too many numbers (4 versus 2).

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