ipv6 day An estimated one million Internet users are expected to have trouble connecting to some of their favorite Websites during World IPv6 Day on Wednesday. More than 400 popular Websites including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Bing are participating in a test run of a new addressing system for the Internet, called Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). The problem is that a relatively small number of people, about 0.03-0.05 percent of worldwide Internet users, may experience a problem called IPv6 brokenness. This basically means that if you're computer is on a network participating in the IPv6 test Wednesday, there may be a problem somewhere between your computer and your connection to the Internet.
But along with a limited number of IPv6 problems, there will also be the usual computer annoyances such as downed Internet connections, slow response times from your ISP, Website problems, Wi-Fi connectivity issues and so on. So how do you know what kind of a problem you're having? Here's a quick rundown of how you can test for problems. Why IPv6? Whenever you type a URL such as Google.com into your browser, that address is converted into a series of machine-readable numbers called an Internet Protocol (IP) address. IP addresses (IPv4) currently look like something like this: 70.42.185.10 (one of Google's many IP addresses).
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