IPv6 Worried? Don't be just be prepared

Yesturday I recently attended:

IET Evening Lecture: The internet has run out, long live the internet!

thanks to a close {{friend}} of mine who pointed out to me, we both found it interesting and fun. Even got to see 'The Internet' box as seen in the, 'IT Crowd'. It was unbelieviable the amount of questions was pouring out at the end of the leacture. Lots of ressurance that everything will be fine and simple. Just a few pointers that I learnt....

Be Prepared
At least do the following to be ready.

• Make sure your ISP is IPv6 ready, if not convince them to, else CHANGE ISP!
• Buy a new Router equipment and make sure it has 'Dual IPv4 and IPv6' protocol support
• You may need to verify your Firewall is setup correctly
  

Don't Panic

Cables?
You don't have to worry about cables, IPv6 runs on the same 'Ethernet' cables you already using.

What happened to IPv5?
That was just some silly experiment a long time ago.

Will it be Slow!?
Despite the addresses will be long and you will be doing more copying and pasting to ping address... Short answer. No.

Can I talk to IPv4 Addresses?
No. Don't even try, apparently it has been tried by encoding an IPv4 address inside of an IPv6 address, then decoded. Yet you can never get a response.

What about the IPv4?
From what the lecture said, we will never know. We cannot predict the future. Ideally we like to see the technology fade out.

Thanks to
I sheepishly forgot the speaker's name yet he did say he help make this.