Wireless and RASPPoE

[BladeRunner]

Im hearing different noises about this. Does the average wireless modem supports PPPoE. I have the old POTS Telkom router and multiple accounts. Using the native windows RASPPPoE drivers for the different accounts seems more comvenient.

 

[Pada]

RASPPPoE was a driver that allowed you to dialing multiple PPPoE connections from Windows - primarily used with Windows XP pre-SP2 and RouteSentry.

All D-Link and TP-Link ADSL modems supports bridge + half-bridge (aka PPPoE Relaying / PPPoE pass-through) + router modes as far as I know.
Most Netgear ADSL modems does not even have bridge mode. There are some Netgear ADSL modems that you can temporarily activate bridge/half-bridge mode by accessing a URL with custom parameters - developed by one of our members here on myBB.
All the ancient Telkom ADSL modems are supposed to support bridge mode.

Unfortunately I don't know much about the other brand ADSL modems, but I'd guess that most of them won't have half-bridge mode support.

If you want to split traffic across multiple PPPoE accounts, I would suggest that you get a MikroTik router, or use my Traffic Splitter application in Windows. Of course you'll need a modem that supports half-bridge mode or at the very least bridge mode.

If you're looking to buy an ADSL modem, I would HIGHLY recommend either the D-Link DSL-2500U (ADSL modem only unit with 1x LAN port) or the D-Link DSL-2750U (ADSL modem + 4x 100Mbps LAN + USB 2.0 for 3G/Storage/Printer + 300Mbps Wireless N with 2 external antennas). The TP-Link & ADSL modem's have some of the best modem chipsets on the market, so your signal strength would be superior to most other ADSL modems.

 

[BladeRunner]

Thanks for that. Its just over the years I've come to trust my old POTS in bridged mode. The 4+ computers in my house all connect with different accounts. Ok part of the strategy is to more less to keep tabs on the kids. So they have to go buy their own bandwidth and pay for it. Ye I know looks sucky. Also, and perhaps mainly, in case SAT 3 goes down I need an alternate functional connection I can use like immediately. There is, however, a need to convert my old RG45 cable network to wireless for a number of reasons.