Curious if anyone is running 1+GBPS service through PPOE on a B20x and can speak to its performance?
getting a new fibre line put in tomorrow with Bell Canada, 1.5gbps down and 940mbps up
from what I’ve read, PPOE passthroughis the way to set this up in the Peplink router behind the Bell modem/router.
PPPoE on Peplink devices has always been a little bit underwhelming.
I would recommend you keep your ISP router in place and either enable IP passthrough / bridge mode on it (if it can) or keep the NAT in place and forward everything to the IP your Peplink gets.
The 20X will likely top out at the 900Mbps mark. That will be closer to 600Mbps with PPPoE enabled.
Thanks @MartinLangmaid
Sadly the Bell provided modem/router cannot be bridged. Doesn’t support it. From what I’ve read it’s either PPOE pass through or use it’s DMZ function.
my Understanding is if I double nat, VPN won’t work. (I Connect to corporate work VPN )
based on what you said, I’d have to explore the DMZ function
Then start with the DMZ function if you want as much bandwidth as possible or configure PPPoE if not.
@MartinLangmaid, what is the best way to speed test the throughput of Peplink product? I have been using Ookla speedtest.com (almost everyone’s go to), fast.com (it really can be faster) and waveform (good for bufferbloat evaluation). I find some Peplink product can meet the stateful firewall throughput and at least one (Balance One) is having trouble.
At someone else’s suggestion, I’ve used WAN Analysis, which gives higher numbers but doesn’t seem like a legitimate test because it doesn’t include LAN activity to fully exercise throughput. Plus who knows if all of the stateful firewall code is being executed.
I always start by resetting the Peplink router to factory defaults, sometimes turning off inControl
So getting 60-90mbps down over PPOE… something not set right?
@MartinLangmaid, my speed test question doesn’t appear simple to answer. For a Balance One, I finally achieved a high of 767/174 Mbps on Ookla speedtest.net after multiple tests on multiple servers when I used the Edge browser (Win 10) instead of Chrome, configuring speedtest.net to Single Connection instead of Multi Connection, and I did not log into the Balance One (the Dashboard display uses CPU). Selecting Single Connection severely limits the upload speeds for some unknown reason. Upload speeds increased to a high of 567Mbps on one of the Multi Connection tests.
Perhaps Peplink uses specialized software on their own speed test server to have a more repeatable test environment…
I switched over to DHCP and got rid of PPOE.
i was expecting issues with double NAT and VPN but none encountered. I think the only issue would be when port forwarding or trying to inbound VPN
But Speedfusion and initiating VPN to my work network, or using ProtonVPN from any client device to connect out had no issues.
I thought remote web admin from InControl would be a problem but it worked as well.
Speeds are now at around 600/600 but it maxes out my Cpu.