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The home networking scene is so bad. I had a Time Machine and and Airport Extreme, but it was not capable of PPPoE login to Centurylink's network, and I wanted to get rid of the Zyxel router that Centurylink provided.

I ended up getting a Linksys Velop MX8400C 2 pack from Costco for $230, since that was the lowest price I could find for something that did PPPoE login and could be hardwired together. I wanted the ability to do multiple VLANs via wireless like Meraki, but I could not find anything. Even the Meraki Go stuff does not do it.




Most people will just bridge mode the modem from the ISP to their router so that the router itself doesn't have to authenticate, which is probably why most home routers don't have PPPoE.


Actually, I miswrote, it is PPPoE login with VLAN tagging that you need to login to Centurylink’s fiber network.

I guess the apple time capsule and airports were too old to get that VLAN capability, since they stopped being made 5+ years ago.

A lot of the new home routers have the ability to PPPoE with VLAN tagging though.




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