Router with pppoe

[bunker]

Is it possible to use a router with a pppoe DSL connection? I don't know jack about routers, can you install software (the pppoe connection software) on them?

 

[lowtech1]

"Is it possible to use a router with a pppoe DSL connection?"

Yes

"I don't know jack about routers, can you install software (the pppoe connection software) on them?"

Yes, if your router support & alow you to do so.

Check out SmoothWall , a great & free Linux firewall that support pppoe.

 

[KydLynx]

hey, get a netgear rt314, it works for me. or the smc barricade should work good too.

 

[nnnyyy]

The linksys router works with pppoe too.

 

[Tallgeese]

PPPoE definitely supported by SMC

 

[bunker]

Thanks for all the replies folks!

 

[JackMDS]

If you are provided with ID, and Password.

You Install the Network with the Router; you enter the ID and Password to the Router's PPPOE menu, and you are done.


Usually the ISPs don't give the Info, they force you to install the PPPOE, and get the ID, and Password online.

So, you connect one computer directly to the DSL modem, you install the PPPOE you get the ID and PW (it comes on the screen during the installation).

When done you Install the Network with the Router, you plug the ID and Password to the Router's PPPOE menu.

If every thing work OK through the Router, you can uninstall the PPPOE software and the DSL Dialer.

 

[bunker]

Jack, here's the setup. I currently use Enternet pppoe software to connect so it looks like a dialup for dummies. I do enter my id/pwd. There is no modem, the ethernet comes directly from my wall outlet to my nic.

 

[JackMDS]

I am not familiar with a setting without a Modem. Ask your ISP if it is a regular DSL setting, and they put the modem elsewhere.

However, I assume that if it is connected to the NIC it is an Ethernet connection.

Get any of the Router that supports PPPOE.

Connect the Modem to the WAN input of the Router. Connect your computer to the available ports.
Make sure that your Network is working, before you start with the Internet config.

Read the Manual to find out how to configure the Router. Most Router is basically a Network component with IP. You start the I.E (Internet Browser). You type the IP of the Router to the Address entry, and you get the Router?s Menu.

Find the PPPOE setting, enter ID and PW (ignore the entry that ask for ISP info.)

Logout, and Reboot every thing. Start I.E go to Tool, Internet Options, Connections, and make sure that you are using the LAN (not the DialUp).

My take of which Router to buy:

Routers Compare.

For what ever it worth it seems that CW (Conventional Wisdom) claims:

1. Netgear RT314
2. Barricade 7004BR
3. Linksys BEFSR41

(3Com Entry Level Router is the samr as SMC Barricade).

These are all 4 port Routers, from a Router perspective the 8 ports counter part are similar.

I own few Barricades (Regular, and Wireless), and Netgear.
I like the Barricade (no real technological reason).

I would choose the one that has the features that fit the way you use the Internet.

Table Comparing thses Routers:

Comparing Cable/DSL Routers.

Link ? Courtesy of TallGeese.

 

[bunker]

Thanks Jack! The reason there is no modem on my install is that it is what bellsouth calls ifitl. It runs on fiber optics and is piped directy to a junction box outside my house which takes the fiber and transfers it directly to ethernet.