Airport Extreme with DSL Modem - PPOE settings

brettatredback · Feb 18, 2009, 05:39 PM

OK, so after several hours of swearing and cursing, i have my new airport extreme sitting behind my dsl modem now working and connected to the internet.

With my older linksys router, I had the dsl modem set to 'bridge' PPP location mode. That didn't work with the airport extreme it seems and nor did having the PPP on the modem. So, i selected 'PPP on the computer' PPP location mode and that seemed to do the trick.

So, question is -
- why doesn't 'bridge' mode work with the apple extreme? does it, and i'm not doing it right?

- is 'ppp on the computer' ok and any reason to not want this - any degradation in network performance etc??

thanks,
Brett

gsahli · Feb 18, 2009, 06:36 PM

"I think" what you are doing (bridging PPP) limits you to one computer connected at a time - probably recommended by the ISP, right? :-) The right way to use a router is to set up the router to do your PPPoE connection authentication and have you computer Not do this anymore.

Feb 18, 2009, 05:39 PM	#1
brettatredback macrumors newbie Join Date: Mar 2008	Airport Extreme with DSL Modem - PPOE settings OK, so after several hours of swearing and cursing, i have my new airport extreme sitting behind my dsl modem now working and connected to the internet. With my older linksys router, I had the dsl modem set to 'bridge' PPP location mode. That didn't work with the airport extreme it seems and nor did having the PPP on the modem. So, i selected 'PPP on the computer' PPP location mode and that seemed to do the trick. So, question is - - why doesn't 'bridge' mode work with the apple extreme? does it, and i'm not doing it right? - is 'ppp on the computer' ok and any reason to not want this - any degradation in network performance etc?? thanks, Brett
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Feb 18, 2009, 06:36 PM	#2
gsahli macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Chicago	"I think" what you are doing (bridging PPP) limits you to one computer connected at a time - probably recommended by the ISP, right? :-) The right way to use a router is to set up the router to do your PPPoE connection authentication and have you computer Not do this anymore.
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