PPPOE or PPPOA

[kylef14]

I recieved DSL service about 2 years ago when it first came out and it came with a PPPoA modem. Recently, I called my ISP for a tech problem and the second i said i had a PPPOA modem he said i should have it changed out with a PPPoE one for no cost. He said it would get rid of all the hassles. I asked him what hassles since I have never had any with my PPPoA modem. He just kept replying it would get rid of the hassles without telling me what they were. It seems like he was trying to force me to go with PPPoE. I just want to get your views here please. Should I switch over or no.

 

[LIBERTYorDEATH]

On average, you get better throughput with pppoa because it has less overhead. The catch is that it is totally dependant on what encoding, what manufacturer of dslam, what xDSL provider, etc. Go to http://www.dslreports.com/ and look up your provider and see what others in your situation are doing. But the rule of thumb is pppoa is less overhead, better throughput, less steps involved so less things to go wrong.

 

[kylef14]

Thanks for the info.

 

[Shadow07]

I am not sure as to why the tech wa trying to get you to go with PPPoE. PPPoA uses cells that are 52 bytes long and have a better throughput than that of PPPoE. The PPPoE frames are larger and can cause slower performance. If you have a SDSL or ADSL, then you would most likely use PPPoA. Most providers today support both. The PPPoA is more expensive because of the type of hardware the ISP has to purchase. PPPoE has only been around for about 6 months or more (I could be wrong on this time table), but PPPoE is not the better way to go unless you want to have a network that is based on Ethernet.