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sarabveer 2 hours ago [-]
> Even in 2026, a huge number of ISPs still rely on PPPoE, including Bell Canada, AT&T Fiber, and Xfinity in the US, along with the vast majority of ISPs in Europe, Asia, and China.
Comcast (Xfinity) does not use PPPoE.
davidhariri 3 hours ago [-]
In my specific situation I was able to use this WAS-110 to get full speed PPPoE from my fiber provider (Bell).
Sure, it bypasses the supplied hardware but does not solve PPPoE limitations on UniFi.
I use the same WAS-110 on Bell.
sage981 2 hours ago [-]
The UCG Fiber numbers make the case: this is a SoC acceleration gap, not a PPPoE overhead problem. Half-bridge is a workaround for hardware Ubiquiti shipped.
nottorp 2 hours ago [-]
Oh thanks. My local ISP insists on pppoe even for business lines.
I like the unifi APs but then using their gateways is a no-no.
q3k 4 hours ago [-]
I miss when this kind of content would've just been two paragraphs and a config snippet.
(also, this isn't a "Show HN")
cr3ative 4 hours ago [-]
I always suspected this was possible but having it demonstrated is excellent. I would assume this would be of most benefit on an OpenWRT box which _does_ support hardware offload!
simonjgreen 3 hours ago [-]
I mean at this point just ditch the Unifi? You have a much more capable gateway in play now that needs to have equal to greater throughput than the one you are bridging for.
p_l 3 hours ago [-]
No, the half-bridge is less capable for various functions, but happens to have hardware PPPoE offload which makes it faster for this specific function but not for others
Ballas 40 seconds ago [-]
Could you go into more detail - how is the half-bridge less capable?
mono442 4 hours ago [-]
I guess what they did works but it makes some of valid ip addresses unavailable.
ksk23 3 hours ago [-]
Was thinking along the same lines; why do we hardcode a /24?
Is that reality in ISP last mile networks?!
hayleyest 41 minutes ago [-]
AT&T offers only a /25 here. But it's just a shell script, adjust to whatever your flavor is. You can hardcode in your own netmask, bits, and gateway without any issue.
Comcast (Xfinity) does not use PPPoE.
https://pon.wiki/guides/masquerade-as-the-bce-inc-giga-hub-2...
I use the same WAS-110 on Bell.
I like the unifi APs but then using their gateways is a no-no.
(also, this isn't a "Show HN")