Gab auch Volumenpreise. Ganz früh als den Begriff Internet nur Freaks kannten, hatten wir in der Region einen ISP zur Einwahl mit Modem und ISDN. Der wollte 5DM pro Megabyte, wenn ich mich recht erinnere. Der bessere Deal war dann später das Zeitbasierte Internet Gateway via BTX von der Post.

Thank you very much for your reply. So the bottomline is, that when bound to a residential ISP, we most likely have no chance to utilize our own AS and IPv6 Prefix without the help of a 3rd party (ASN peering aside, which is needed of course, no matter what). So it’s usually involving tunnels to get it up and running. That solves the mystery somewhat for me and I think I know in which direction I have to do my research.

I think I will start prototyping with route64 (which you mentioned above), but if I get this up and running, I would appreciate it if you could PM me the LIRs you have on your list. If I can wrap my head around this, if the fees are still in the ballpark you mentioned above, that sounds very reasonable to use this in my Homelab and gather experience with IPv6 and AS.

Thanks again for your help :-)

May I ask how you got this started? Hosting your own ASN, as far as I understand only works if my ISP would actually route traffic to my ASN, right? I am thinking about getting into IPv6 for self-hosting and I could ask my ISP to change my current setup (I only have IPv4, but a public one, without CGNAT) and I do not trust them that they mess this up. So my preferred way would be to not touch anything on the ISP side and host my own ASN and find a Sponsor for a /48 Block. I still cannot wrap my head around this.

Just that I understand you correctly: You got your ASN and /48 block from RIPE (or a Sponsor I assume) and you host your own AS? Or is the AS hosted by someone else? If the latter, I wonder how traffic can find to your home or to your Server locations.

Nothing of this would work without getting in touch with my ISP, and I fear the usual resedential IPs will not care.

I never really used Playlists, so I cannot comment on that, sorry. The only thing I do is subscribing to some channels in Invidious when I am on my PC and I do see them in Kodi. Usually I search for what I am interested in and that works fine for me in Kodi and Invidious. Invidious is still in active development, but you meant the Kodi Plugin maybe? I hope it is not abandoned and just not worked on because it still… works? :-)

I use the Kodi Invidious Plugin and my own Invidious instance.