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How do you upgrade IPv4 to IPv6?

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You don't exactly "upgrade" it; you can configure your computer for IPv6, but continue using IPv4 for a while. Not many servers exist yet for IPv6; if you want to access an IPv4 server, you need to use IPv4 on your side, as well. To use IPv6 on your end, you need to access a server that also works with IPv6.

So, basically, you need to:

Ask your ISP (Internet Service Provider) whether they have support for IPv6.
Ask the ISP how you should configure your computer to work with IPv6. (I am not sure whether there is a standard method that works in most cases - perhaps you just enable it.)
Configure your computer.
Look around for Web sites that use IPv6. For a start, I believe there is an ipv6.google.com, which you can use for testing your connectivity.

First answer by Hilmarz. Last edit by Hilmarz. Contributor trust: 802 [recommend contributor ]. Question popularity: 2 [recommend question].

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